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.

We have progress !!

Things are finally happening! We met with Mickey on Monday to discuss the placement of the house and driveway. The plan was for them to come out later that week to put in stone for the the temporary driveway and to scrape the area where the house will be. The building permits are taking forever to get from Williamson County, a month and half later and I think they are finally coming through. We also had to make a decision on where to put the electrical pole for the transformer...Which took me a day and a half to decide! Scary considering all the decisions I will have to make in the months to come....
Yikes, I hope my husband is still around once the house is built, I might just drive him CRAZY!!
;-)

 Time for some PICTURES!! Photo creds to the Hubs.

Lot has been scraped 

 We have a port-o-pot! 

So much stone! 

 Mickey's Sign....Things are getting real !! This time next year we will be IN OUR NEW HOME!!

Working with Dad

Today my dad and I went out to the land to clear a portion of the existing barbed wire fence that is along the road front. Whew...that was not an easy task. We cleared out four eight foot sections and took out three posts. Thorn bushes, cedar trees and lot of vines and nasty weeds were tangled among the barbed wire. Even though it was hard work we enjoyed each others company and made a great team.

When we arrived we were surprised to see the septic area was already sectioned off. Bigger than I expected but there is still plenty of room for the house. :-)

Big pile is nasty weeds and brush we cleared.

Dad hard at work!

New spot cleared for the driveway.

We used the stakes from the fence to show were we want the house to go up.

Hard to see but they are there! 

After all the hard work we had dinner to celebrate the progress, salmon, green beans and a chocolate ganache CAKE!! from Whole Foods.