June 2023 - Building a Home
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Comments (269)NEG - We're hoping November/December for move in date! So we'll be stuck in our current 500sqft house with 3 babies for a few months, but it will be worth it! Everything about this house is so sentimental to me/us because my husband is building it (FIL is the GC). Our wedding bands were made from a tree on our land as well. We never planned for 3 kiddos, but I'm happy they will have this property and house to grow up in (that their dad built from the ground up!) KH - They will be delivered on August 1st at 35 weeks (due date is August 31st) if I continue to keep them in that long and will definitely have some NICU time. They warned us it's typically until their due date, but they could go home early if they're eating and breathing properly!...See MoreJUNE 2021 Building a Home
Comments (416)Tanya Shelly - I feel for you! So sorry that this is happening. There really is no excuse! We approached our builder yesterday about finish date. We were thinking the middle of September. I wanted to make sure that we were in by the end of September because I have a Disney trip planned with my daughter and grandchildren (their first trip) the middle of October. The builder said that we could push for the end of September, but it would most likely be the end of October. DH thinks if we let him say October, that it will be November! 😫 That means more rent, insurance for two places, utilities for two places, etc. Thankfully, we are not paying storage fees. Though our storage in the rental is getting tight. Can't wait to turn over our lighting to the electrician, but that's not happening anytime soon. We are still waiting on humidity levels to go down in the house before floors can be put down. The HVAC is running on 60 because the house is so tight, it was already cool, so was not cycling. That's good for future, but not when trying to get the H down. Cabinets are supposed to be delivered in 2 weeks. We cannot take delivery if the floors are not down (install is for the 26th.) The trimmers are stilled delayed and will now have to do the coffered ceilings after the cabinets are placed. The tiler cannot finish because the trim is not in the bathrooms, nor are the doors (which can't happen until the floors are down. It's a cycle!!! Driveways and porches were supposed to be poured two weeks ago. The back porch was pour yesterday (still needing finish work.) With the prediction of rain/thunderstorms today, and Monday being a holiday, they will not come back until next Tuesday to do the front porch. Driveways suppose to be next Wednesday. The silver linings, that I can see in this whole thing, are that it shouldn't be hot as Hades when we move. I cannot imagine trying to move in this heat! I can probably go to Disney easier before we move in, but afraid I will miss out on house decisions and catching mistakes. DH will stay behind and keep me informed. Thank goodness for Facetime!!! There are worse problems in the world so I hate to sound down over a newly built house. We are so fortunate!...See MoreMay 2023- Building a Home
Comments (89)Nice way to round up the month. @Liz888 Thanks for the good vibes. It's kind of felt like a marathon, but we are finally settling in and glad to be out of the rental. Cooking without any running water inside the house (our hose spigots work) kind of sucks, and having an air mattress (pretty uncomfortable) and my desk plus a tv and a chair in our spare bedroom is a little tight, and we are hoping to have HVAC by the end of the week, when it's supposed to hit the 90s, but the house feels really good to be inside, we are so looking forward to actually having our stuff set up in it. @Kyla McSweeney When all is said and done, our build will have taken almost 2 years start to finish, but that includes the design phase (going from inspo photos to a completed house), and our builder's crew is just 3 people, so YMMV. @worthy Is this place in a particularly hard to build in area? What has taken so long to be able to knock down the old place on that lot? Everyone's stuff looks so great! It's wonderful to see walls go up and to be able to visualize rooms and see how they change as they get ceiling planes and whatnot. This is where we are at this afternoon. First a few glamour shots of the place. We put a couple of short LED strips on the interior soffits as a proof of concept and love how it looks, so we got the correct length ordered and should have them by early next week. The house looks phenomenal at night already, and we've been able to enjoy the sunsets, and it's lightning bug season, and they fill the fields and the trees around the house, everything feels magical. Glad I was so aggressive about dark sky compliant lighting outside. We've been in discussions about where to hang the island pendants. We are all in agreement that we want them a bit higher than you'd "normally" see them due to the very high ceilings/scale of the lights, plus the design of the lights allows for higher mounting without the concern about glare. Builder and my husband want them bottoms level with the 8' soffit and I'm not sure I'm on board with that height, but this is our starting point. Once the tile guy gets our bathrooms tiled, we can install the hall bathroom cabinets and get our counters templated. I've been creeping on the counter company's supplier inventory websites, and am hoping that I'll be able to scoop a couple of slabs from the below lot if we're able to get the templating done in time, seems like the perfect amount of veining, not too dramatic. If not, counters/plumbing may be delayed a bit, but it's something I'm willing to put off if it means I'm not settling on ultra expensive counters....See Morespire architecture inc
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