Progress Meeting

We met with Wayne on Friday to go over a few things.

1. Fireplace design. I roughed out a sketch of what we want the fireplace wall to look like. I'm very excited about it.
2. The second furnace for upstairs is going to be located in Tyler's attic. I'm not so sure about it, but Wayne assures us that it will not be a noise nuisance and that it is quite common in other parts of the country.
3. Started on fascia and soffett work.
4. Finalized the decision to frame Cory's room in.
5. Need to discuss all the arches with Jamie K. (interior designer) and Troy again. We're now not sure that we want to arch everything.
6. Made decisions on door to garage and then garage door to exterior. We're going with fiberglass for the mud room/garage door and steel for the garage/exterior.
7. Doing our electrical walk through on Tuesday with the electrician, the light designer and Jamie K.

Wow, now some of the fun things are starting to happen. I think I'm going to start getting anxious. We have hardwood floor decisions, lighting, tile, etc. coming up. I ordered samples from Armstrong floors for Mahogany, Brazilian Cherry, Hickory, Maple, Walnut and Birch (my preference is in this order). Our trim work will be in Alder. The built-ins will mostly be Alder, but may do Cherry in the great room. The kitchen and master cabinets are Cherry. Cabinets in the mud room and kids bathrooms is Alder. I hope we don't regret that decision since it is a relatively soft wood. Oh well.

Staircase to the bonus room:

Dried In

Lots and lots of progress this week. We are all dried in. Meaning, we have tar paper on the roof (it's waterproof) and all the windows are in (with the exception of one).


Notice the big window missing in the back. This one was stored and shipped upside down, so the frame bent. The glass company came out to fix it on site and broke the glass as they were trying to fix it. Soooo, they had to order a new window. I'm not sure how long it will take to get in.

This is Miles' sanctuary spot. He has some grand landscaping plans for this little nook.

Week is Shaping Up

I met Wayne at the house today to go over the construction draw. It started to dry out this afternoon and looks like a pretty good week now. They will be starting the water line tomorrow - yeah! Hopefully they can get that in and a road base in before the next wave of wet weather so that we don't get so much mud.

We should also be 'dried in' by the end of the week and windows starting to be placed.

We Interrupt This Program

I ran into Wayne dropping the kids off this AM and they cancelled all work. Due to snow and sticky, wet conditions, no work will be going on today.

We really need to get the water line in so that we can get the road base in and get out of this wet, sticky mess. This week isn't looking good weather wise, though...