Framing Day 8

More good progress today. Things have been going pretty well, only a couple standing issues. The window in the kitchen and the stairs are still not totally fixed. They made the stairs all the same height and width, but I am very much not happy with the way they are constructed. We will see where that goes....my complaints have been voiced.

But I'm not going to dwell on the issues, lets look at the progress:

Standing on the southwest corner of the house. They finished the floor and most of the exterior walls are built, but only one of them is up.

Standing in the northeast corner. This will be the corner of the master bedroom.

Looking through our bedroom window into the sunroom.

Looking out of our bedroom window.

They did some more work on the roof over the garage. You can see toward the end is the area where there will be a bench seat in one of the bedrooms.

A view from the back corner of our lot.

From the east side.

From the southwest.

They had nearly all the exterior walls built and laying around the site as I'm sure you noticed, so I think it is safe to assume that they will get those up tomorrow. The week is looking good for weather so far, only some rain forecasted for Thursday.

-Jacob

Some examples....

I was thinking that a break from looking at rough construction would be nice so I'm going to show you all some pictures from a model home that is currently being built. It has a very similar color scheme to what we are planning, greys, whites, purples and maybe some teal.

For example see the picture below, grey walls with a slightly lighter grey ceiling, white trim and a purple wall as an accent.

This wall is really cool and we were planning on doing something similar for the back wall of the office, here is a picture more straight on:

Here you can see the grey walls with white and dark brown cabinets. We will have these same color combinations except the colors of the island and the wall cabinets will be flipped in our house:

We will probably incorporate more of the 3d trim throughout the house, similar to the picture below, but in a more traditional manner like a chair rail with shadow boxes below it:

We will also probably do something like this around the columns of either side of the great room arch:

This model home also has a sunroom. Theirs has a fire place in it while ours has more windows. But other than that it is the same. Check out some nearly finished pictures of it below:

-Jacob

Framing Day 7

More good progress today as they were able to install all of the joists for the second floor. There isn't a floor installed yet (or stairs really) so it is hard to get pictures but it at least makes it feel like the first floor has a ceiling now. Check out some of the photos below:

The stairs are in...but we have a problem here that we will need to get resolved. You can see that the first step is a different size than the others. NOT OK.

They did get started on the flooring, but only these few panels.

We also can now see the ceiling in the garage. We have 11ft ceilings here!!!!

Roof trusses in the garage.

Next few picture I am standing at the top of the stairs. KiDahn is standing in the sunroom here.

This one is for mom.

Standing in the kitchen, looking into the great room.

Standing in the sunroom entry looking toward the front door.

Standing in the garage. 

looking toward the garage from the living room window.

I'm pretty positive they will not work tomorrow because it is going to rain, so probably no more work until monday. However we did go look at one of the new model homes tonight as well and I will post some pictures of that soon.

-Jacob

Framing Day 6

6 days of framing down and the first floor is done! Below are a bunch of pictures of all the rooms, unfortunately I think it is pretty hard to tell what is going on in all the pictures because there are just 2x4's all over the place. But check it out, I put what you are looking at in the captions:

Here I am standing on our temporary front porch, and KiDahn is enjoying the view into her new office.

Looking into the office from the front hallway.

Standing the hallway looking down into the family entry off of the garage.

looking into the closet off of the main hallway, downstairs bathroom is off to the right.

This picture is the downstairs bathroom.

Standing in the kitchen and looking into the pantry.

Standing under the archway connecting the dinning area and the living room. Looking at the kitchen (window is still the wrong size....).

The sunroom. Standing in the same spot as the last picture.

Standing in the same spot as the last two picture, this time looking into the living room.

Looks like our other set of stairs is mostly ready.

Hard to tell what anything is in this picture, but its taken from the entry off of the garage....I think.

Standing at the front door.

The view from the office.

Here I am standing at the entry to the sunroom taking a panorama from the kitchen to the living room.

Here is a shot from the back and up above as well as from across the street:

You can see they are still building components on the ground as well. They built a lot of trusses today as well as sections which will support the joists for the second floor:

There were also plans posted for the layout of the second floor deck:

So tomorrow is once again going to be a very nice day and I think we will see the second floor start to go up. Very excited to see that happen, I'll post pictures as soon as we have them!

-Jacob