Framing Has Begun

These pictures are from two separate days. It only took 3 days for the house to go from just a foundation to what you see below. Hopefully the roof is finished soon and all the windows go in. I will feel better about the weather at least once that is done. 

From the front. There is another Gable that will be added and the roof is just getting started. 

We went with the 3 car garage.

This is the morning room. We kept the standard 3 windows that are included with the morning room. 

A view from the loft looking out to the front yard.

In the garage, there is our front doo. I didnt think it would have a window, so that is a plus.

The living room. The hole is where the gas fireplace will go. We chose to do it on the side so the protruding structure isn't taking up space in the back yard where we eventually plan to add a deck. 

Here is the kitchen. To the left is the morning room. On the right side is the door to the powder room. The fridge will be inset in the gap just to the left of the powder room door. 

We chose to keep this wall open which is the dining room and the family room. We could have walled it off and created an office. We decided to keep it open as we plan to use one of the 4 bedrooms as an office upstairs. 

Looking back from the front of the family room.

Looking straight back from the family room. 

There is still a little water in the basement from a rainstorm that came through on the second day of framing. There is no lumber under water so I am not worried about it. It should help delay the curing of the floor which is better for the concrete. The far back is where we added an egress window that will also have a ladder. Makes me nervous for when our little one is old enough to want to sneak out!

I didn't expect to have doubled up joists under the basement floor. This is a huge plus to me. As long as it was all glued and screwed it should make for a solid and squeak  free floor. 

The basement will be finished, here is the lumber. To the left you can see the rough ins for the 3 piece bathroom. I am going to finish the bathroom myself later on. I can do it cheaper myself and with the rough in, it wont be very complicated. 

Here is the loft. The far room will be our office

The front of the photo is the laundry room. The two windows are in the master and the left of the photo is one of the walk in closets in the master. There is a second walk in closet through the master bath. 

This is from in the master bedroom . The light is shining through the window that will be above the soaking sub in the master bath.

This will be our daughters room. It is the largest of the 3 bedrooms. 

Wood on Site

I stopped by homesite and the lumber has been delivered. Framing will start next week. From what I understand the framing process will be pretty quick.

Flooring Selections

I just came across this picture that was sent to us by Rite Rug. These are the flooring selections as well as the bathroom cabinets. The top left is the tile that will be in the master bathroom on the floor and surrounding the tub and shower. Next to it is the cabinet selection for the master bath. We went with a dark color and a white top. This was an upgraded option. To the right of that is the cabinet color of the second bathroom upstairs. This was the included option. We are doing an upgraded laminate in the hard surface areas on the main floor. We were going to do hardwood but the cost was more that we wanted to commit to for something we can always do later on.

Flooring Selections

Foundation and Plumbing

It has been a busy two weeks as the lot has gone from staked, to a hole with footers, and not the foundation is in. Our PM told us that the lumber will be dropped off on Tuesday and that the slabs should be poured on Monday. It's coming together quickly!

The house is wrapped in water proofing. This is from the back of the foundation.

Some of the plumbing from the rear.

We added the Egress window in the rear of the finished basement.

Straight ahead are the rough ins for the basement bath. It is a 3 piece rough in.

Footers In

Footers are in and the forms have been delivered to pour the basement walls.

Right behind the morning room. 

We will have a great view from the back yard.

This will be cleaned up, but we wanted to keep some trees in the yard. 

Temporary Driveway

Pre-con meeting

We had our pre-construction meeting yesterday. The meeting ran about two hours and was very informative. Our PM led the meeting and our SR attended as well. This was our first meeting with the PM and he seems to be very knowledgeable and experienced. He started by going over the placement of the home on the lot and explained in entirety the exterior of the home including draining, utilities, electrical, and water bid locations.

We went through all of our selections to confirm we were on the same page and everything checked out. This was definitely the time to speak up and ask questions. Even though our selections were in, we went over small details that can be tweaked which is good to know. Our PM was accommodating to our requests and it was clear he is focused on making his clients happy.

We walked the lot and talked about what would be cleared. We are keeping a few of the nicer trees and they are going to clear our the undergrowth. We should have enough trees for shade and privacy which we are very happy about.

They are shooting for the 13th to start digging just as they mentioned previously. We will finally start to see some progress! I'll upload some pictures next week once we have a hole!

Pre-con

Tomorrow is our pre-construction meeting. We should be going over the plan and what our timeframe will be. Our sr told us that digging is scheduled for October 13th. Hopefully we will be confirming this tomorrow!