Preservation Arts

From Zero to House in No Time!

The house has made some incredible progress since my last house post on April 28. I know it isn’t all that interesting to anyone else, but it’s just so cool to be building a home of our very own.

At the end of April, we had the foundation completed and we started the framing. By the end of the day tomorrow, we will have rough plumbing, electrical, hvac, siding and soffit completed. The next steps will be to get it insulated and ready to sheetrock. It’s utterly amazing to me how quickly this work has gone.

A Mother’s Day Card for Myself

So… last night I told my husband, “I’m going to go downstairs and work on some Mother’s Day cards. I can still send them to our mothers, even though they’d be late.” My smart-aleck husband said, “Oh good, make one for yourself too and I’ll put my name on the inside.”

…click here to read the full post with a card and video!

Happy 1st Birthday, Hannah!

We celebrated Hannah’s first birthday last Friday with pound cake and strawberries. She’s an adorable girl. Currently, she can crawl, pull herself up to standing, and talk lots of gibberish. She’s such a blessing to our family.

Backfill & Garage Floor in

Backfill was completed last week and the garage floor was poured yesterday morning. Previous post shows first delivery of materials. Cool stuff!

Dropping off the floors

It was very cool to see the first delivery of our house materials. Trusses will come next week and most of the other materials in a couple of weeks. View the full post for the video.

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House Construction Progress

We began building our house almost a month ago and we’ve made some really incredible progress so far. Most of these photos were posted on the blog previously, but I know the photos weren’t working well, so I’m reposting this.

Backfill will happen this weekend, then we’ll get the garage floor poured and framing will start next week. Fun stuff!