House Update - June 26th

We just wanted to post a quick update since it has been a little while. Things have been pretty busy for us as usual. During the last week some inside work has been done by the plumber and electrician. On Tuesday night we went to Menards and picked out most of our interior lighting and we are happy with what were able to pick from. Jim has been in Minneapolis the last couple days for the Minnesota E-Health Summit, so that has kept him out of trouble! :-) This weekend we hope to wire the house with coax, cat3 (telephone) and cat5 (ethernet). Thats all we know for now!

House Update - June 20th

As you can see from the pictures below, we now have our main front window in. We couldn't be happier with the way this window looks and turned out. The interior walls are now are in place also for all three floors. We put up a few sheets of plywood down in our mechanical room and painted them tonight so they would be ready for all the elec / plumbing / heating & cooling work to be mounted to. Enjoy the pictures!

Front of the house (window is in master bedroom)

Garage view showing window for room above garage

View from the stair landing looking out one of the dormers.

House Update - June 19th

Here are a couple pictures we took last night of the interior of the house. We should have some more pictures tomorrow hopefully. All of the interior walls are pretty much built now on all three floors so we are getting a good feel for what all the rooms are like. Next week it looks like all the interior work will begin. For now enjoy the couple pictures, and tomorrow we should have some more of the inside and the outside. Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather finally!

"Man Cave" above the garage

Stairway in the basement (looking from the family room)

House Update - June 15th

There has been quite a bit of activity in the last few days at our house. The shingling of the house and garage is pretty much complete except for venting at the peaks on the house. This coming week a lot of interior work will be done such as the walls and staircase. This will allow our plumber, electrician and heating crews to get in the house next week and begin their tasks. Our garage floor has the in floor heating in place and the cement floor is set to be poured tomorrow morning. Hopefully if all goes well with the weather this week, we might just see some windows get put in by the end of the week. For now enjoy the updated pictures, and Happy Fathers Day!!!

Front Yard

Northeast Side Of House

Back Yard

In Floor Heating For Garage Floor

House Update - June 10th

So far this week the weather has been on our side, but it appears that is about to change for the rest of the week with rain/thunderstorms coming our way. The building crew has been able to finish sheating the roof over the house, and begin the shingling process. The back of the house is fully shingled, and the front of the house is about half way done. They hope to have enough breaks from the rain to finish the shingles on the house and then move onto the garage by the end of this week. After that we should be able to see the soffits and windows go into place. Enjoy the pictures for now and try to stay dry!

House Update - June 7th

Even though it wasn't the nicest of weeks weather wise, the building crew did a remarkable job on getting the rafters placed and most of the decking put on the rafters. They were able to finish putting up all the rafters the end of this week, and get the dormers built and into place. Hopefully they can get some reasonable weather this coming week and get the shingles in place so that we can get the windows in and start with all the other projects. Enjoy the pictures and we hope to have some more updates next week for everyone!

House Update - June 4th - House Rafters

Even though it did rain AGAIN today, the builders braved the elements and were able to place the rafters on the house. They got a little bit of decking onto the rafters on the rear of the house, before starting to work on the rafters over the master bedroom. Hopefully, they can get a little bit more done tomorrow, before it appears that the rain will end their progress for this week. Enjoy the pictures!!!

View from the County Road

View from the driveway


View from the front yard

House Update - June 3rd

We'll the weather held up just long enough for us on Monday for the builders to be able to set the rafters over the garage area. As you can see in the following pictures it is quite a steep pitch roof we went with on our house. We both really like the look and options this gave us with the house. As you can see when looking at the pictures, due to the steep roof, we were able to put a nice 14' x 26' room with a full 8' ceiling above our garage. The rain held off most of today again and the builders were able to get all of the sheeting/decking on the rafters over the garage and prepare the rest of the house for the rafters to be placed tomorrow morning. Hopefully later tomorrow night or Thursday evening we will have some pictures to share showing all the rafters in place besides the dormers of course. Hope everyone is staying dry during this rainy spell!

View from the front yard.

View from the back yard.