Front Door!

The door is finally here after the first one was damaged by a fork lift somewhere along the way. The door is Brazilian oak with a special walnut stain. The rock should be finished around the entry Monday.

This side is almost done, need to caulk the siding and paint.

As you walk in: The living room is to the right, Kitchen will be straight ahead in the corner with the loft covering the laundry and pantry and half bath. To the left of the picture(not pictured) is two bed rooms and two baths. We started the insulation, r-38 bat in the ceiling since blow-in insulation would settle down the 7/12 pitch. We will use blow-in insulation in the exterior walls.

From the kitchen looking toward the living room and front door.

game room/(man cave) even though it has a window lol.

Miscellaneous pictures enjoy!

Cedar Shakes and Fire Box

Hardie Siding with Hardie Shakes on top. The shakes went together pretty easy, more difficult than the lap siding. The shakes have notches on the top side that mach up to the next but you have to be careful to keep the right pattern. Starting to see some progress in composing with materials. It is going to be hard choosing colors.

Picked up the fire box today. I had to exchange it with the previous one because we want to use un-vented gas logs. This is the most efficient since all the heat is contained within the home and not lost through the chimney.

Still waiting on the front door. It came in Tuesday but it was damaged, someone decided to run a fork lift through it. Another one should be here tomorrow so we can finally be closed in.

Getting another inspection tomorrow. The next step is finish the other gable end with the shakes and then insulate and drywall.

Siding & Stone & Windows

It's been over a month since our last blog post, but a lot of exciting things are happening for us! Here is a list of all the amazing things that are going on in our lives:

1. One month ago today, Savva and I got engaged!!!
2. Savva is off to a great start to his senior season of wrestling!
3. My second year of teaching is going well!
4. Savva is almost halfway through his senior year of college!
5. I finished grad school...well, that was in August, but yay!
6. My softball girls are ready for an awesome WHS softball season!

...and our house, obviously :)

Ricky did some great work on the rock siding.

The house from the road. It has come along way since this time last year.

Window are Silverline with a LowE3 Argon .3 u factor, vinyl and prairie grills. Silverline is owned by Anderson.

Windows and Doors installed.

Installed the tubs. We got them from Ferguson at a great price!