Week 8 photos

Wednesday was the electrical walk-through with Mike and the electrician.  We went through each room, discussed lighting, switch needs, phone jacks, TV jacks and outlet locations.

There has been a bunch of freezing rain and even some snow here in Indy this week.  Since the roof is not yet on, some of the floors were like an ice rink.  I asked Mike about the flooring and he says it is a special board that is persistent to warping.  Whew!

Holly and I made a design change on the master closet.  The closet previously was rather shallow and ran left to right as you entered it.  There was to be a fire door at the rear of it with storage behind.  We've elected to now make it a deep closet and run it up to the front wall thereby eliminating the fire door.  Some storage will still be available via access doors to below the eaves.

The black tar paper was going to go on the roof as we were leaving and it sounds as though windows will be installed next week.  Prewiring and HVAC will be going in next week.  Brick has a 1 week lead time and stone 2-3 weeks.

Entrance to Highland Park with our home in background

Opening from entry hall to dining room was previously missing.  No more.

Pop up in living room now has two 1ft dropdowns to help delineate the different rooms

 

 

Living room.  Fireplace will be in center with cabinets on both sides.  Transom windows above cabinets.

Stairs to popup on 2nd floor.  Bedroom straight ahead with laundry room to the right and linen closet to the left

sloped ceiling above stairs to popup.

Master Closet.  2x4s on the floor running to far wall will now be the side walls.  Resulting triangular areas will be storage.

Due to Christmas holidays and New Years, there won't be too much progress to warrant another trip down.  We won't be going down this weekend so no week 9 update.  I'll return with a week 10 update.

Week 7 pics and week 8 update

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas.  Holly and I and the kids were able to spend the better part of two days with family!

My parents came over in the morning on Christmas Eve and the three of us packed up the girls and I took them all down tot he house to look around.  Very Exciting!!!  The second floor is almost completely framed and the roof if pretty well complete (wood at least) as well.  Walking through and seeing all the rooms you can really get the feel for the home.  I'm so excited to move in!

Holly's family came up to Indianapolis on Christmas and Holly left my parents house for an hour or two to see them on their way up from Santa Claus.  Unfortunately our camera was still packed away from Thanksgiving so no Week 8 pictures.  I got the camera back later on Christmas day so these are from week 7.

master bedroom and bathroom over garage

looking from master bedroom to popup on 2nd floor.  Laundry straight ahead.

Lots o wood

back porch

back porch

Front is getting higher and higher.

We have an electrical walk around with Mike on Wednesday and will get some photos of the house as a week 8.5 update.

Week 7

We stopped by  the house on our way down to Santa Claus the day before Thanksgiving.  Unfortunately we left the camera down at Larry and Geri's so can't provide any pictures.

The 2nd floor was just about completely framed and the back porch was now under roof.

This week has been the same story as all the others since we started building...rain.  Lots and lots of rain.  I'll be out at the home again on Saturday with my parents and Holly will be meeting her parents on Christmas on their way up from Santa Claus.  We'll get our camera back then and have some week 8 photos to add.

Week 6

Bad weather continues in Indianapolis.  I think rain led to another 1 maybe even a 2nd day of no construction this week.   Mike had submitted the 1st draw on the construction loan earlier in the week.  Once I realized that it had been done, it only took a few hours to get everything cleared at the bank and ready to write Mike a check.  Way to go National Bank of Indianapolis!

We packed up the van and ventured out on Saturday for a little bit of shopping for the Giving Tree at St Monica and some pizza at Arni's before checking out the progress made in week 6.  Too bad the contruction guys weren't around this Saturday, Holly had made them cookies.  Now I guess I'll be forced to eat them all!

Apparently we have plumbing and appliances already!

Living room looking toward the kitchen.  Note the difference in height of the ceiling joists in the kitchen and the living room in the foreground as well as the tall single support beam.  The living room has an 11ft ceiling (2 ft popup) that is visible here.

Living room again looking toward the staircase.  Note again the 2ft pop up of living room versus the entryway.

I'm standing in our stairway looking out over the decking of the 2nd floor.  2ft popup on the right will have a bedroom and the laundry room.

Looking from the other side back toward the pop up and the stairway.

View out front of house from the 2nd floor

Looking up driveway at the enclosed 1st floor

Well according to weather.com it's looking like more rain again this week.  Chance on Wednesday and likely on Thursday.  Holly and I plan to stop by on Friday afternoon before we drive south for Galey Christmas in Santa Claus.  I hope you enjoy the new format, Blogger finally made some much needed updates to their website.

We interrupt this normally scheduled blog for......

I just thought I'd put a couple photos of the kids out for all to see.

Noel and I stayed home 1/2 day on Friday after she vomited on Thursday. Before I returned her to daycare, she requested pigtails. You'd think that after having 3 daughters I'd have done this more but this is Daddy's 2nd attempt at this ever.


I was commenting to my oldest brother that there were so few pictures of Xavier as he is the youngest. As the youngest in my family, I'm well aware that the older kids get all the pictures. Here's a couple of my boy!

End of week 5. I see rooms!

It's a bit hard to believe the progress from Monday. Especially considering the framers told me that 2 days were lost due to rain! Had those two days not been lost, the leadman told me that they'd be up at the second floor already. The first floor room walls are roughed in so we could walk through the house and make out the rooms.

3 car door openings with a friends entrance into the workshop.


Windows at the front of the garage
Noel runs through the future living room! Picture taken from kitchen. Den on far right of photo through a wall or two.
Landing of future staircase down to basement.
Looking across the play room to the stairwell in the basement. 5th bedroom and windown opening furthest in rear.

Cordelia standing in the mud room with garage and friends entrance behind.

Our current house kind of sits down in a hole. We get quite a bit of rain run off and our driveway is constantly a puddle. No problem with that here!

Cordelia and Noel entertain the framers during their break!


Next week's forecast isn't looking so good. More rain and snow on Monday and Tuesday. Rain halts construction though snow does not.