Next up on our new construction framing adventure – first floor interior walls! This was the point in our construction process when we could truly start to get a “real life” sense for our how main floor was going to be laid out and how it was going to feel. Our first floor is pretty much
One of the first things we had to decide when building our dream home (after floor plans, of course) is our exterior colors and materials. G and I had already spent the past year dreaming about our “dream home” exterior so this was actually a relatively easy decision for us – surprisingly we were on the same page! I say
We have walls! I loved watching the framing stage of our new home construction. It’s so interesting to see how everything goes up and gets put together, and before you know it you’ve got the bones of your new house in place! Yesterday I shared the start of our framing with the lower level, and now
I have so many pictures of the framing stage of our new home construction that I need to buy a new external hard drive just to store them all. It’s like those first time mom days when you take fifty-eleven-hundred photos of your new baby because she looks different every day. And from every angle! And
Construction on our new house has been underway, and it’s hard to believe I’m saying this, but it’s moving so fast! It seems like I usually hear from people who’ve built that the process is slow and drags on longer than expected but that hasn’t been our experience at all so far. Our builders – Classic
The day we broke ground on our new home construction was kind of like the day I found out I was pregnant – mostly exciting, with a little bit of “holy shit, there’s no turning back now” mixed in. To carry the pregnancy metaphor further, this whole house thing also involved months of planning, setbacks, hoping, doubting, worrying, and thinking
It is now safe to say our status as residents of my in-laws’ basement has an end date – we’re building a house! It all started about a year ago as we were searching for a house in Cambridge, WI. We were convinced the perfect house for us did not exist so we were hoping
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