First Job

Our building crew will be here on Monday to get started on stage two of our house building project. There are two jobs they can work on and I suspect the weather will dictate what order they get done. If it rains, the crew will work inside strapping the ceiling so they can nail drywall up. If the sun is shining they can work outside doing the horizontal 2x4 strapping so the steel siding can be attached and the exterior properly covered. Which will get done first?

This is the east side of our house, about 10 am, plenty of sunshine and in the winter the bedrooms will be warm from the sun. No sleeping in when the sun is up.

 Here, Mary can enjoy her morning coffee and look out across the pond. Once the trees start to fill out with leaves the view will change but every season has its unique flavour, so we enjoy them all.

This was taken from the south edge of the deck. We need to get Steve back with his excavator to do some landscaping and place those huge boulders where Mary wants them.

As you can see, inside there is nothing. First job will be to strap the ceiling, then the drains have to go in before we spray foam over all this gravel. This area will be the great room, where we will spend our days. It will contain the kitchen, livingroom, dining room and quilt room. Yes, Mary gets her own space for quilting.

Looking north from the same spot as above we are looking at the bedrooms on the right, mechanical room, laundry room and master bathroom on the left. Keep your fingers crossed, we want this done by August so Sherri, Pip and Rob can come up and stay in comfort for a few days. We'll see.

Looking at the great room from the outside, you can see that it faces south and gets the most light of any room in the house. This shot was taken at 12 noon, April 12th and you can see the sunshine is about 1/4 of the way up the wall. This is due to the large overhang of the roof which allows the winter sun to come in but keeps the hot summer sun out of the house, so the house stays cool in summer and warm in winter.

Keep these pictures in mind because I'll take them again in August and you can compare the changes.