and we have insulation

the bump-outs will have metal siding on them, which will be done next week--cant wait, the siding will then be complete

for those of you who needed a little bit of context to the work i did the other day: see what is behind the studs--all of that brush in front of the beautiful yellow trees--yep i cleared out all of that; it was a lot of work, but looks sooooo much better













where the brown starts is where i began to clear, all the way to the road side

yes, it is true--we have some siding

you dont even know how much work it took to clear this whole area--if only i had my pitch fork......

some progress on the house...stay tuned

back porch














front porch















back of house with metal roof

Chad's dream house





















we have some stairs; we're thinking about keeping those stencils too......NOT!







pic from inside covered porch looking out to open deck

i know, these pics are a bit redundant, but, as most of you know, we put in a loft; here's an idea for how big it is; notice the sliding door is also installed--yay

view from front side; this is the front porch with two open decks
















view from front



view from inside porch; the leaves are beautiful out there

view from the back

this might be hard for some of you to visualize, so let me explain: where chad has added the rafters in the center over the dining room, there will be a sleeping loft; it will not be very tall up there, but will allow us some extra sleeping space for guests; you also see that studs have gone up surrounding the stairwell; floor to ceiling shelves will be built off these walls for extra storage and to conceal the stairwell to the basement.....ok

the proud owner of a house with windows!!

This is the front of the house; the porch is in the process of being built. Notice the window swung open in the background...

Back eating porch

all the house wrap is finally on, along with the underlayment on the roof; we have also started the back porch

the front door

brackets to hold up the BR closet and part of the bathroom

view from our kitchen windows...not bad, huh??





view from our bedroom