Friday, October 12, 2007

The Little House in the Weed Patch

Much progress has been made on our little house, and we are amazed at how quickly this is now coming together. Day 1 was on 10/2 and started with excavation. Here are some pictures showing how much has been completed in just 9 days!!

Below: the hole in the ground (sorry about the night-time photo) and one other sure sign that there are men at work:












Day 2: the footings are started; meanwhile, the trees all around are turning a lovely color and providing quite the view from our soon-to-be windows.











Day ?? (I haven't kept track very well) - A foundation and vapor barrier. On a side note - a beautiful sunrise glowing golden and lavender brought great joy this week.











And yesterday (day 9)...tada! Walls! At least on the 1st floor - one more floor to go!

Photo 1 - Hubby checking out the garage; Photo 2 - a view from the future backyard; Photo 3 - the view from the future family room windows; Photo 4 - I check out the 1/2 bath




















This is all very exciting! I can't wait to be living there...finally! We are on track to be in before Christmas!! And I'm using a lot of exclamation points!! There will be more photos as things progress.

6 comments:

familymclean said...

Wow, that is so fast! Yipee for you! I think you are living one of my dreams right now.....well about to anyway.

The Chad said...

Cool. One of these days we will have to drive out there. I feel really dumb for not realizing that the house was going to be a 2 story jobber. I missed that tiny detail

Greg and Farrell Clark said...

Wow, that is fast!! A friend of mine here just got into their new house (built by her husband) in July and it was a year in the making...and it wasn't done when they 'moved in' either - they've done the flooring, upstairs bathrooms (they had a toilet in the middle of the unfinished basement behind a big cardboard box which I thought was hysterial!) and kitchen since they've been living there.

It looks beautiful - I really hope I can see it in person some day! How big is it going to be?

The Chatty Housewife said...

Oh wow, your area looks beautiful!!

Tessa said...

I am so excited for you guys! I can't wait to take the tour and help un-pack if needed. My daughter likes to hang out in pantries, so she can help organize that area.

Heather said...

Hey Ames, its looking great - I wish we had that much progress!