Start of the framing 3/29/14

It is finally starting to look like a house now that the framing phase has started. The decisions are already starting to pile up. Our builder, Micky Barnes, asked what color windows we wanted. Seems like an easy decision right? NO! It is not, beige or clay....clay or beige?? We decided to look at brick and stone and thought that might help us make a decision. That turned out to be an even harder task. We found a stone we like but finding a brick color that we think will match the stone is an exhausting process. We drove around neighborhoods for a couple hours looking at different houses. We see brick we like and now have to try and figure out what the color is called. The brick was furnished by the company our builder recommended, so hopefully using the address and picture, the brick company will be able to look up the brick type in their database. We saw houses with the stone we liked but the brick that was paired with it was not appeasing to our eyes. And the search continues....

I think we are going with the clay windows since we seem to be leaning towards brick and stone that are in that color family. 

Master Bedroom

 Breakfast nook area and my handsome Hubs ;-)

 Family Room

 Bedroom #1

Bedroom #2

Many more rooms still to come! 

Starting on the floor 3/27/14

Foundation Photos 3/21/14

More progress, the footers are done !!

The hubs and I went out to the house site last Tuesday (3/11/14) to check out the progress and the footers are complete! We are not experts and had to google around to figure out the exact purpose these footers....A foundation footer is perhaps one of the most critical aspects of the house. It's almost always the first building element that contacts the soil that the house rests upon. The primary purpose of the footer is to spread out the weight of the structure across a larger footprint than the foundation would, if it were in direct contact with the earth. 


Humm....sounds very important! 
It was getting dark by the time we made it out there after work, so the photos are a little blurry due to lack of light. I probably should have turned the flash on.