Holy cow..we have a house!

Friday the 13th is usually a weird day for me. A day where things are completely unaligned and things do not go as planned. This time, everything worked out BETTER than planned.

Ted and I headed out to the house after work so we Ted could drill holes in the framing in order to accommodate the plumbing that we he would be installing next week. I apparently tagged along to do “woman’s work” of sweeping up the mess (he is lucky I love him and knew he was kidding when he said that). Ted was going to let me drill some holes myself…but I chickened out because I didn’t want to mess up anything so I left it up to the professional. I’ll get to play with power tools some other time : )

Back to the house.

One thing we love about our location is that you can’t see the house very well from the highway (the highway is two blocks away from our house). You literally can see it for a split second before hills or trees block it from view. So when we got to that point where we could see it for a second, we had to pick up our jaws from the floor. The house had the weatherproofed! That means that the framing was ALL done!

To add to our shock level, when we pulled up to the house, we saw that the windows and exterior doors were in! We were not expecting this at all. So it was a very pleasant surprise for us! Of course, then all I wanted to do is figure out the sizes so I could start planning what window treatments I was going to do! ; )

And for your viewing pleasure…our house!

The Process

The Exterior

There’s our well!!

The Main Level

The great room, dining room and kitchen

The entryway


Stairs and laundry room


The kitchen and dining room


The kitchen, pantry and laundry room

The dining room (door will lead to the deck)

Laundry room

The great room and corner fireplace


Bedroom


Office (and future bedroom once basement is finished office will be moved downstairs)

      
Hall linen closet and hall bathroom


Master bedroom


Master bathroom

The Basement

The bar area

Storage and storm shelter and stairs

Future bedrooms

Future bedrooms and bathroom

Future family room

There is our house! So happy to see the progress so far. Ted and I were so excited and happy with everything last night. It’s finally starting to look and feel like a house and we couldn’t be more ecstatic! Next week we will have plumbing and HVAC!