Wk of 11/20

Sorry for the delay in posts....but things have been busily moving along with the house progress.

Electrical underground piping is in, and telephone poles are up.  Just waiting on CL&P to hurry up with the Sandy clean up and come our way in early December....

Electrical box on the house...also gives a sneak peak at the house color too!

Bryan has been working hard to get the casings around the windows, the water table up and the corner boards.

Side view of house and master bath.

Backside view of kitchen "L".

Back view 2.

Front house view.

Front view with transome window in....can you tell it was a sunny day out!

Week of 8/13

Lots of updates to the shop.  We are fully enclosed in there, and hopefully venturing to the house again!

 Close view on the shop

Side view of side sliding doors and steps.

Week of 8/9

I keep forgetting to post, so here the recents.

Front view of house

Front view of shop

Side view of shop with sliding doors

Week of 7/2

More progress on the shop.  Bryan has been working hard on getting the siding up...which looks great!

Week of 6/21

I have been battling challenges with my computer, so I haven't posted in some time; luckily a lot of the work that has been done up to now is somewhat transparent to the naked eye.  If you talk to Bryan, he has been working like a dog to keep the progression rate moving forward.  Below are pictures from this week.

View from the side.  We marked out studs and added the furring strips to the shop.  We are feverishly painting the rough sawn boards for the shop so we can get them up.

A few of the rough sawn wood up on the bump out on the shop.

Week of 4/18

Things continue to progress....

Chimney is almost complete! 

Side view of chimney.

Back side of house.  Roof is almost done.

And the fireplace inside.  Just need the final facing here too.

Week of 4/9 Post

Just a few interior updates....

Porch with the slope roof

Fireplace, wood bins to the left and chimney in the center

Week of 4/5 Update

Pictures taken this week, things moving quickly!

Full view of house, and the green grass grows all around all around....

The shop with roof and eyebrow.

Side view of the shop with roof.

Back view of the house.

In the shop, the view to the loft.

Standing in the shop and looking left into the master bath.  Rooms will not be connected but neat to see without walls.

Chimney built up to the first floor.

View of the hearthstone through the back side of the chimney.

Fireplace on first floor with wood bin walls to the left.  Fireplace should be completed by next week and roof will begin then too.

More Progress

Here are pictures from last week.

House with the skip sheathing for the cedar roof.

View of the full house

The start of the chimney in the basement

Back side of the house.  Kitchen is to the left, and you can see the eye brow.

The back porch.  This is where all the wood will get dumped in to feed our wood boiler.  Windows are in our closets in the maser bath.

And finally a view of the back side of the house.  Roof should start to begin in the next week or so. 

More House Progress

The carpenters are busy and moving along quickly.

Rafters are up on house, mudroom and kitchen.

Backside of the house, master bath is to the left and the kitchen L is to the right.

Full view of the backside of the house.



The gable ends are up on the house!

A House of Course!

I have been delayed in posting our pictures, and now that walls are up, we are fast speeding forward.  The weather has been soo cooperative, and certainly helps us get to where we are today.

Pic's from the end of Feb:

House with walls

View of the shop 

Fast track to today's progres:

The interior walls are up, and beams are up for the second floor.

View of the back of the house with mudroom to the right and the kitchen to the left.

And finally the back of the house.  The shop is to the left and the kitchen is the gable end to the right.  I hope the next pictures will be of the second story.

A Warm Winter...

...do you know what happens with a warm winter?  A house is built!  Here are a few pictures to fast track to where we are today.

This is the stone foundation.

Dirt has covered all the black painted foundation and the decking has been put on the foundation.  The front of the house is the right side of the picture.  The left is the kitchen, the bottom is the mud room and the top is the shop.

The septic system....the outhouse just won't cover it!

And then there were walls!  Basically where you see blue paper, those are the walls.  They should stand them up tomorrow.  The big hole in the center is the opening for the chimney.  Today they also poured the cement floor for the basement.  This is what happens when it's warm out!  Yippee!  Stay tuned for more!



1/2/12 - TEST

All's quiet at the house.  After the long holiday, things should begin to pick back up with the construction at the lot.  This is just a little snap shot of how the stone foundation is coming along.  Hopefully by next week it will be completed and the framers can come!

Barn foundation.....

A helper elf from VA....