May 2018 - How’s your house build?
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Suru
5 years agoI've finished the rockscape in the front yard thanks to my son coming for a few days to help. I like the rock but I think I need some more plants. We had a big thunderstorm the day we finished and we found out that the drainage plan works perfectly. The rain goes from the roof to the gutters to the rain chains to the hidden buried catch basin under the rain chains to the underground pipe to the faux rock river to the street. I'm so happy it worked! Yay!
Next, my DH just needs to finish the pergola over the garage and the front of the house is done. We hired a guy 3 weeks ago to install thin brick over the exposed basement walls, but haven't seen or heard hide nor hair of him (typical for this build LOL) I put the brick on the front of the house so I'll probably end up doing the basement walls too Ergg! Then we move on to the backyard. We are getting there! :-)
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Comments (332)Nidnay - great idea! We'll have to come up with something. Alison - we are using cedar from our land, too. Our front porch was just laid using it; the posts are solid cedar. It was milled and air dried for several months. Then we took it to be planed. Everyone seems confident that it should be fine (the mill, carpenters, etc.) - I've got my fingers crossed that they're all right. The pecan and walnut was kiln dried right after milling (back in July or August). Air drying would have been preferred for it, but we didn't have time. Everything was (luckily) mostly unwarped and what was warped could be planed down....See MoreApril 2018-Hows your build going?
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Comments (31)I have been gone for almost two weeks, and much has changed in the yard, thankfully. One of my favorite azaleas is blooming, this view which looks upwards into it. I like for its luminous white-pink blooms and because you can see the topmost blooms from the back deck. These tiarellas were rescued from near extinction last year, and they grew from extremely small starts to what you see below. I think I'm going to add some more for a mass planting. And, I LOVE the cobalt blue of the Brunnera. I will definitely turn that into a mass planting. These were abused by the plowman, and still look good this year. I thought they were goners. Just wish the variegated leaf forms would grow from seed. I bought four Percy Wiseman Rhododendron this year. I LOVE these colors. The buds are bright pink, but the flowers are light pink tinged with yellow. The three colors simultaneously on the plant are just gorgeous. And, ending with a very pleasant surprise. I ordered roughly 15 bare-root peonies last year in the fall from GH Wild. I planted them in rich well-prepared soil, and nearly all of them have buds this year. Did NOT expect that. It's going to be exciting! Below is one with two big fat buds. As a side note, I am realizing that these spring-blooming trees and shrubs are a good color bridge between bulbs and my "normal" herbaceous perennial season. The new azaleas may be off their true bloom time since they were just purchased and I'm assuming are under more of a greenhouse/grower timeline. But, I'm hoping next year they are blooming during this needed "bridge" time....See MoreJuly 2018 - How's your house build going?
Comments (260)Thanks all! lindavana - we got the light from Metro Lighting, its a Capital Lighting Chandelier, 4912BI, you can get in 8 or 12 lights. drbevdc - thanks!, my boyfriend is a big beer geek and this was his special request, we love how it turned out. Everyone raves about our open shelves, found them on Etsy and we love the navy cabinets. ILoveRed - curtains are our only window treatments on the main floor and since we are city living we were not sure how much everyone can see into our house, so they had to go up right away. I had purchased the curtains in advance so they were ready to go. We had the brackets hung by the construction team before we closed, so it was "easy" for me to jump up and hang them...i dont do heights very well and was a little scared since the ceilings are 11' tall, but I got them up! Rugs were all from our old house and the right size so easy to just lay down, whew....See Morekriii
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoThey finally hooked up our digital shower and painters are now finishing up some exterior painting (front porch rails etc.). They also gave a first attempt to install our iron rails on the rear patio. They had to bring them back to the shop due to poor welding in some spots (we’ll see how round two goes).
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5 years agoWe had a visitor this morning. Seemed his main goal was to climb the house. He tried numerous times to climb the wood posts. He Eventually climbed our small table to try and climb a post from there. He left only to return later. I heard a thump at my sliding glass door and there he was. Thankfully hes not poisonous.
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5 years agoThe front exterior of the house is almost compete. Fireplace tile is up and theater room is ready for carpet and the bar is ready for stools. About 40 days out from moving in...hopefully
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5 years agoI believe it is a black rat snake. I'm ok with snakes as long as they are not poisonous. I would not want one near me though and I would never pick one up. Hopefully he helps keep down the mice.
amiebeth we have a really big lizard that suns itself on our patio. We originally lived in Charlotte and had the Anoles. This guy was big and I'm not sure what kind of lizard he is:
And then there's the spiders. That's what gives me nightmares. I did some perimeter spraying around the outside of the house because we were getting some spiders in the house. Small ones. I sprayed around the trim and this thing came skittering out. I just about had a heart attack. It was huge.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI posted this a while back, but good to repost.....during construction we had a permanent spray system installed in the walls for insect control. For those who are totally creeped out by spiders etc., this might be an option for you (if you haven’t completed the drywall stage yet).
They install very thin plastic tubing in all exterior walls (tubing has tiny holes throughout) and also install several ports where they can pump the solution through all the tubing. So, no insecticide inside the home, but rather in your walls where most critters crawl through first before they even get inside.
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5 years agoOh my gosh, Vinmarks, that guy is big! My kids would love him (the lizard, that is. The spider would send the kids and the husband screaming- haha).
This guy likes to sun himself on the steps of my mom’s front porch, but he’s pretty tiny. We also saw some big millipedes (I think) in her yard over the weekend when we were helping her do some gardening. Lots of cool critters up there!
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April H
5 years agoWe’ve been anxiously awaiting how this vision was going to work out. Double cabs were the dream but
not in the budget but SO happy we have no “dead space”. Good day at our place!kriii
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Buzz Solo in northeast MI
5 years agovinmarks, We had those black snakes when we lived in northern VA. I remember taking my MIL for a walk in the woods there and 2 of them were intertwined up in a tree, I guess having a "good time". Freaked my MIL out (she's from MI). Walk had to be cut short!
nidnay, your shower is beautiful, as is all of your house.
April H, your kitchen is lovely. Budgets are such a pain!
ljohnson0626 love the high ceilings, that's going to be impressive.
S M love the exterior, and nice looking tile.
Yesterday we completed putting up the last of the roof purlins. DH goes back to more squaring, truing, etc, (eve boards maybe? I forget the order of some things) then we install some blocking, and then, sometime next month, (fingers crossed) the roof steel goes up! That ought to be "fun" to do!
This is the back of the house. Each one of those sections is ~12 feet wide, so the house part is 48 feet long and the garage is 36 ft. There will be 2 rooms inside the garage so the vehicle part will only be about 24 feet deep.
Buzz Solo in northeast MI
5 years agoAnd if we're going to show off critters....
This snapping turtle was in my driveway yesterday afternoon. I was fortunately able to keep Ziggy, my "chase anything if it moves" dog away from it. The shell is about a foot long but I wasn't going to stick my foot next to it for comparison.
On the other hand,
I haven't seen this guy since last May when I nearly walked into him when I stepped out my back door to scare off what I thought was going to be a raccoon. I literally could have reached out and touched him!
That time Ziggy chased the black bear off the deck and up a tree. Unfortunately I could not grab Ziggy before he also leapt off the 6 foot deck. Idiot now has a permanent wonky back injury! Only the young bear's dignity was injured.
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5 years agoamiebeth01
5 years agoWe went by the house last night and nearly all of the interior doors are installed, and a lot of the trim work has been started!
Nidnay
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoautumncolor..... Exterior lights are Monte Grande by Savoy House (I purchased them from a local lighting store, but you can find them at most online stores). They come in several different sizes and two different finishes (English Bronze & Slate). In person the finishes were so similar and I can’t remember which I chose. They do not have a clear glass option, so I had a local glass/mirror place make me clear panels for ALL of them (it only cost $170 or so to replace all the glass in 8 fixtures). It was impossible to find exterior fixtures in a style I liked with clear glass, so I just decided I would not let the glass determine my fixture choice....it’s so easy to change that out.
Here are the fixtures before glass change...
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5 years agoBig progress on the last day of the month! We had electricians, plumbers...and the driveway crew!
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Jackie
5 years agoSnakes and bears, oh my!
Meet with concrete contractor at house today and got eaten alive my mosquitos for the 10 min we were in the back yard.
They poured the front stairs one step too short. There is just over 12” from the landing to the threshold. They are trying to come up with a solution as I do not want 2 more steps within that landing (1 plus the 4” sill step into the house). I’m holding tight to what’s listed in the plans so they will make it really right.
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