ALL THE FALL THINGS!

After two years of not having the room or resources to decorate for fall, I have been absolutely beside myself with all this space. Please enjoy the end result of me going absolutely…

Slumber Party Turned Move-In Weekend

We did it! As I type this on October 12, I’m reflecting on the month-plus that’s gone by in what feels like mere seconds. We’ve done so much and I haven’t had any…

25,000 Imported Italian Twinkle Lights

Okay, NOW we’re in the final stretch. I think. Maybe. We probably have less than a month to go? It’s been a busy, busy few weeks… in a good way. The outside of…

Everything Everywhere, All at Once

We’re (hopefully) in the final stretch! We’re also in a sort-of liminal space in that we have a ton of projects going on simultaneously so it’s been hard to gauge where we are…

Love from the Other (Siding)

It took two months, but she’s finally dressed for the ball! We went with a fancy-pants composite siding and, unfortunately for our builder, that siding was difficult to work with. So it took…

Better in Color

I have to apologize. I haven’t been fully throwing myself into this blog. Building a house is a lot. I knew that going in, so this is absolutely not a pity party for…

Drywall for Days

There have been several milestones in this build that made it feel like a real house, but this one might be the most significant. With four walls and a ceiling, there’s no more…

We Can Finally Start a Garage Band

We ordered our garage door in December. That’s how absolutely bonkers supply reliability has been. I really wanted windows that went down the right side, but Mike convinced me that would look dated…

To the Windooow(s)! To the Wall(s)!

Boy howdy has it been a busy month-ish since my last post. When we last left off, we were waiting for the basement floor to be poured. That happened! Then we got into…

Empty Walls, aka Interior Framing

I was so busy watching the roof go up that I didn’t even realize the interior was getting framed out. Seriously. I normally go over every day and see what’s new, but I…

Roof Raisin’

It happened! It finally happened! The right trusses were delivered, installed, and covered with shingles. We have a real roof—hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?! The original plans had a flat roof straight…

We Have Truss Issues

Look, I didn’t want to have to make two “truss” puns in a row any more than you wanted to read them, but desperate times… The trusses were delivered on December 20th. It…

Truss the Process

We’ve hit our first of what I presume will be many hiccups along the way. For whatever reason, the company building our trusses is behind. We were supposed to start framing the roof…

We’ve Been Framed

Things are really starting to take shape and I can barely contain myself! We’re at the point now where I can see the big house before I even cross the street, thanks to…

We Love a Solid Foundation

All that digging and timber-clearing were cool and all, but this is what makes it feel real. Really real. Stuff-is-actually-being-built real. And with the foundation in, it’s way easier to visualize where things…

Fun with Footers

Something neat I didn’t know about footers, likely because I’ve never built a house before, is that they can look really sloppy. If you know me, you know that I’m a bit of…

That’s Like… a Really Big Hole

Woo, we’re cooking now! The entire footprint is completely dug out to the point that they took the backhoe already. We got our house number already, which absolutely blows my mind because we…

Footprint Fings

It’s absolutely wild to me that we started here… …then went here… …and now we’re here… Today was a pretty big day. We got the whole footprint mapped out and had the county…

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