kelly_143256 - I took a measuring tape to our foundation because I was convinced it was poured too small! Maybe a bit excessive, lol. It looks fine now.

Hiren Arora - I love your cabinet color so much I might steal it for our laundry room.

NYCish - where did you get your hex tile?

To all the people installing marble in your bathrooms, are you not worried about etching and staining? I need to choose our tile soon and have been stuck. I was leaning towards terrazzo tile since it fits the style of our house but am worried about the upkeep on anything cement based. I love marble but same worry.

Nice way to wrap up the week. These guys have been working overtime!

Thank you Lori Walker

Kayce03. Thank you so much. It is SW Copen Blue. We fell in love with the color when we first saw on houzz. It truly is an amazing color. Green then slightly bluish with natural light.

Lots of progress today.

Nat the house is really going up fast!

Kennady the house looks so nice! I like the white boards up above the brick fireplace. I also like that it is flat against the floor without a big step. I was thinking of doing this for mine (the boards not the iron bars on the side) with a TV above the fireplace.

What color are your walls? I really like the color!

SW requisite grey,
the brick will be painted white .

@kayce03 I’m not quite sure; our designer purchased it. I can check next time I’m at the house! Not very helpful, I know.

It might be from here in matte black (not glazed)

http://www.nemotile.com/tile/product/glazed-hex/

Kennady very pretty!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone! Hoping you all have a fabulous weekend with nice weather. I will be away for over a week and a half starting Monday night so hoping someone will start the June Building A Home thread come June 1st!

Spent today finally sanding and oiling our front porch cumaru wood. Should only need this every 2-3 years to keep it looking like this.

Before

After

Now that’s a great porch !!

I took a few more pictures of the painters progress today . I think we went a little dark on the stain , but it is what it is .

I love the dark stain Kennady!

K H thank you . It is close to our floor color and fireplace mantel and stair railing .

I love seeing everyone’s progress!

Gthigpain the porch deck is so beautiful! Love the color.

Kennedy same for your stain, I love it on the shelves and part of the cooktop hood! Love the contrast with the white cabinets.

Gthigpen you have been such a great help with window sizes would you mind sharing your dormer window sizes too? I plan to have one window up there but I’m not sure how to size it!! Do you have any information on what material was used to trim out or case your windows on the exterior? Our builder is pretty young and I have definitely gotten him to try new things! But using smart trim it only has a flat casing and no sillnose. Maybe your windows already came with the pretty casing. Seems like most homes around here are pretty fancy on the inside and pretty basic on the outside. Oh and I forgot to ask about your daughters vanity. I love the crystal knobs and door hardware. Where did you get that? Might just have to email you so I don’t have to keep asking on the forum lol!

KH - I’ll have to pull up our architect plan tomorrow on my work computer to get the dormer window sizes. I can’t remember. But all of our exterior siding and trim is Hardie. The window and door trim is all standard stock Hardie trim and the sizing was specified by our architect. The sill is just standard Hardie ripped down to size. All was painted after it was put up. Here are some closeups I took today. Our windows have a flat piece on top but our doors are just flat casing all the way around.

Top of window casing

Gthigpen that is tremendous in itself! Thank you for the closeups Maybe it will start a fire under our young contractors behind!

KH - Our center dormer window is 3' wide x 5' tall.

I also found one of the first versions of the house exterior when our architect was still designing it. This one had 1 window in each dormer that was 4' x 4'.

Oh, and I forgot to answer your question about my daughter's vanity knobs. I honestly can't remember exactly, but I believe these came from Home Depot or Lowes. I know I didn't spend a ton of time or money picking them out. They are pretty standard faux crystal knobs.

We took advantage of Memorial day sales and purchased some things for the house. Unable to find patio furniture. Too hard to purchase online, not sure how comfy they will be. And no luck locally yet.

Trying to stay away from the new house. Need to do a walk through and want to do one before the one with the builder, but there is a lot of little things happening at the house, so no sense in doing it yet. They seem to be very good at finding all the flaws and fixing them.

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K H, we are in Indiana. I hope your weather gets better so your home can progress!!

NewEnglandgal, Thank you for your kind thoughts & hugs :) It is more frustrating every day we can’t get in the field. However… I gotta say I’ve selfishly enjoyed having my husband home and getting things done that usually get put by the wayside when planting happens!

We’re getting closer & closer on our little building!! I’m hoping for the concrete apron soon, and actual power so we can stop using the generator. Also needs gutters, and will definitely need gutter guards there!

Keep your heads up everybody, & welcome to the newbies!!!

Kayce-3, your view is to die for. Amazing.

Nat Mc, glad they caught the guys who were taking your construction materials. That must be satisfying.

Two homes we just completed. Could you all indulge my poll?

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5705086/rustic-or-contempory-whats-your-kitchen-style

Lori - very nice building , we are having one built also . What size is yours ? And how far from your house did you put it ? That was something we struggled with .

@Jeffrey R. Grenz, General Contractor - clicked on the link but got a "page not found" error

Completed week 2 of framing today. First floor is all framed. Just some tidying up to do to the sheathing then its on to the 2nd floor which is 1/2 the size of the first so should go fast.

Foundation is dug.

Marjen- framing looks great.

Lori- building is pretty. Looks like a nice place to work.

We were doing some landscaping and it started raining the sky changed so fast to a bright pink and double rainbow

Tenisha, tell me about your floors

Photos didn’t post and my user name is messed up did Houzz do another update

Claudia I would update your password for security reasons. Once on here I had a weird ideabook added and some follows that I didn’t approve. Houzz did notify me of the hack but I had already caught it!

Thanks KH I will

First purchase for the new house (aside from lights) was delivered today. An area rug. Not that exciting, but it made me happy, bought it from Wayfair during the weekend.

Builder had our lawn cut. Grows fast!

Small updates from us. Turns out that the double oven cabinet is not correct. Opening is right, but we realized the doors above interfere with the oven controls. There isn't enough room to move or remake the doors. The cabinets are white and there is a light shining right on this spot. Not a good spot for an on-site fix. Cabinet guy is going to have the oven cabinet remade (I am in Texas, Amish cabinet shop is in Indiana ) but going to delay everything 3 weeks or so. I had counters scheduled to be installed this week :( I am bummed, but happy they are making it right.

We are starting to trim interior windows. Should get going pretty quickly once we get a system down. Spent all day yesterday sanding, filling, priming and painting trim boards (and bee boxes, furniture and a few other things that needed paint). Projects snowball!

I bought Oil based enamel to tackle some furniture that needs to be painted this week. I am going to attempt the HVLP sprayer on my own - wish me luck! Oh and wish me luck on furniture retrieval from the barn. I hope it is all salvageable!

Also painted a few sub-floors with recycle center paint while we wait for carpet, Might get some assistance in finishing the house (post flood help) so going to drag my feet on a few things (carpet, septic, railings)... crossing my fingers.

gthigpen What did you use to sand your Cumaru?

Is there anyone reading this thread (besides me) who has been hanging around here long enough to remember Dutty's house? Thought of that house as soon as I saw Meredith Southworth's house. I saved pics somewhere...

edit to add - here's a link to an old thread with her pics, about 3/4 of the way down.

Such a pretty house.....nice thread. Thanks for the link.

andria564 - a hand orbital sander. Used 80 grit.

DLM - I remember Dutty's house! Off to do some reading.......

Our wood flooring started today

Those floors are beautiful, Hiren!

Lori Wagerman_Walker nice little garage building. It's like a miniature version of how our house will be constructed, a pole barn style building. The weather has been mostly lousy for us, though thank goodness, not the deluges of rain other parts of the US have seen, just enough rain and wind to impeded progress.

So far DH and I have gotten up 5 more 24' steel roof panels. Almost lost one to the wind today as the forecast, is NOT what happened while we had the dang thing in the air! 14-18 mph gusts out of the north are not the same as occasional 6 mph winds out of the SE. Only about 23-ish panels to go.

I also started putting up the soffit along the back garage wall as it has already been roofed. I also ordered the windows today and the through-the-wall doggie door. DH has also installed a few floor end beams which are LVLs and will eventually support the floor joists. (LVL floor beams do the same function as rim joists on conventional construction.)

The arrows point to the orange LVLs, laminated veneer lumber. These had to be notched into the posts.

Next chance to roof might be tomorrow, otherwise, not before next Thursday!

Y’all I have been so busy trying to get a few things taken care of for final inspection. I’ll have to go back and look at all I’ve missed. We should have our CO middle of next week.

@sherimcm my floors are 5” red oak and the stain is 50/50 natural and ebony mix. The grade is select.

Love all the progress

rough mechanical stuff for the next 7-10 days then roof!

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