Tag Archives: building our home

While we tried to sleep the evening of New Years, we heard a persistent loud banging on our roof, just over our bedroom. With little we could do about it in the middle of the night (and on a holiday … Continue reading →

Just when we were getting the first several carloads put away, the truck with the “big stuff” from our townhouse pulled into the drive on Saturday…back to square 1 ha! We are SO grateful to the handful of friends who … Continue reading →

We closed last Thursday afternoon and spent the weekend getting a whole bunch of tasks checked off our list – with new construction, we learned there are several “extra” to-dos before you can even start the actual moving, including installing … Continue reading →

When we last left off, the neighbors were left blinking (hard) at this unsightly paint job in a shield-your-eyes shade of green. Yes, the green was too bright. Understatement. But I’ve decided that what made it literally leap off the … Continue reading →

Neither of us has ever built a house, and we aren’t designers (at least not the home kind), so I was feeling pretty pleased that as the choices we’d made from tiny samples and swatches became reality in our house, … Continue reading →

Week 10 is complete…and the house is nearly complete as well. I was flipping through previous weeks’ posts and it was fun to see the progress in pictures. It’s hard to believe we will take one more “finished” photo next … Continue reading →