Day 23 - We have STAIRS!! YAY!!

Being that it was Sunday, when Jarret and I went out to the house today, we didn't expect ANY change from Friday!! So, it was a SUPER pleasant surprise to see that their stairs were completed this weekend!! YAY!! That meant that I could get upstairs to see the framing of the bedrooms :)

This will be Tristan's room. I am absolutely in love with the large windows that all of the rooms have!

This is our master bedroom. It will have double doors, which I am super excited about because it feels so spacious!

Master bath

This will be the boy's bathroom. It is one room that I am kind of anxious to see come together because it feels small currently. 

Jarret's room - facing the front of the house

Overall, the upstairs looks GREAT! Our closet is one of my favorite parts of the house, but of course I didn't take a picture :( Also, our laundry room is upstairs...so it will be really nice to again have the ability to quickly put clothes away once they are done!

Day 18 - Roof

Today was a super fun day to go out to the house because they got the roof on above the garage! These peaks look really high to me because I am used to our house (not a walk-out). Everything just seems so much taller because of how high the house needs to be in order to accommodate our floor plan. 

View from the back of the house. 

They also put the plywood on for the floor of the upstairs, so hopefully we will see more framing done with that tomorrow!! It is so exciting seeing it all come together! 

I picked out our garage door today and plumbing fixtures. Hopefully more on that sometime this week!! 

Day 2 - 5/24 - Pouring the Footings

I am shocked by what I have learned about the building process just in the last couple of days! Let's be honest, I had no idea what "footings" were until I stopped out at the lot and saw them for myself! I would have assumed they were a new type of shoe that I probably needed to buy ;)

This is the "top" part of the house where the front will sit. As you can see from this angle, they had to level our backyard, but luckily it is beautiful black dirt, so we may be able to use it and salvage some cost from our final grade and sod!

This is the framing for the footings. Again, please bear with me as I am not 100% sure I am using ANY of these words right - haha! But I am definitely trying!!

The guys working were very kind and explained to me what I was looking at - our basement - and where the stairs would go, etc. It is really very, very cool to see everything come together from the ground up!!

This isn't really my area of expertise, but it is fun to see the progress they make everyday! It is about 90 degrees here, too, so we appreciate their hard work!