Walls! Wood! Floors!

Finally, yesterday I was able to walk in the house for the first time. It was surreal after looking at the thing on paper for so long to be able to see it in real life. Some things are smaller than I imagined, some bigger, some just right.

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The view from the 2nd story is really pretty, especially now that everything is greening up.

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Here's the whole album of stuff. This is so much fun!

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Foundations! Brick! This is so cool!

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Footings poured. Concrete! Brick! Stuff!

 
 
 
 

Here's the full album if you're interested:

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The first pictures of digging. Smells so good!!!

 
 
 
 

Here's the full album with captions if you're interested:

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The ground has been broken.

Finally, finally, finally. After many many tries at buying land, getting frustrated and looking for a house, settling for a boring house then deciding we would fight on and try to get the house we really wanted, it's happening. It's been a very, very tough fight. Lots of frustration and an emotional rollercoaster, but I am so happy that we waited and waited and waited until the right opportunity came up. I'll post a couple of pictures of the progress so far.

Site layout

We've been trying to decide on how to lay things out. 10 acres is a large canvas from which to work. There are two high spots that make for better sites, as things can get really wet when it rains. Here's how I think we are going to lay things out. Hopefully this will leave us some room for animals and a racetrack for me (go kart or otherwise).

New house rendering

We've changed things to look more like a farm house now that it'll be on 10 acres, and nowhere near the beach. I'm not sure we're going to be able to afford the front porch all the way across, but otherwise it should look pretty much like this.