This past Monday afternoon around lunch time I walked over to the house to check on the progress and this is what I found…. ….snow and a gaping whole in the roof! The day that we were scheduled to demo the roof and exterior wall, winter decided to make its reappearance in the middle of […]
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Last weekend we decided that we needed a little getaway, so we packed up the car and headed three hours west to Moab, Utah. Moab is known for its dramatic desert landscape, mountain biking, hiking, camping, four wheeling, and river expeditions. This was our first trip to Moab and we loved it! We tent camped […]
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Despite a week full of cold and dreary weather (rain, snow, sleet, more rain!) construction on our home remodel continued. Framing on the new garage roof is fully complete. The whole house will be getting a new roof once the addition is constructed. In the meantime, the roofing subcontractor is coming out to put down […]
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So, I had the best intentions to post these Cinco Things on Cinco de Mayo as I’ve done in previous years, but then I gorged on chips and salsa and sorta lost motivation. Consider this a belated Cinco de Mayo celebration….or another excuse to whip up a pitcher of margaritas. These are a few things […]
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Three weeks down, only seventeen more to go! The weather almost didn’t cooperate this week. Believe it or not, it snowed off and on Monday–Wednesday! Yes, it’s May and it’s still snowing here. The end of the week brought gorgeous weather, though. One of the biggest projects this week was lowering the pitch of the […]
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Construction continues! It was another productive week at the job site, as evidenced by these photos: With excavation complete, the formwork for the footers were built and the concrete was poured. The footers shown here are for the columns that will support our new front entry. The concrete footers were also poured for the new […]
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We hired a contractor and construction is officially underway on our house! The crew started on April 14th and it’s amazing how much progress they made in the first week. The weekend before the contractor began, Jason and I completely gutted the kitchen. We donated all of the appliances to Habitat for Humanity […]
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Major progress on the home front. We finalized our design plans and submitted them for a building permit this week! That means once we get the town’s stamp of approval and hire a contractor, we can finally begin construction on the addition. We’re adding 836 sf to the house, as well as reconfiguring some of […]
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After we went under contract on our house, one of the first things we did was compile our thoughts on the future remodel/addition into a project brief. I’m a visual thinker, so this process was a helpful way to organize and communicate our ideas in a linear way. We tried to include all of the […]
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So, what’s going on with our house remodel you ask? Well, I regularly wonder the exact same thing. Apparently molasses moves faster than the design/build process. The hammers haven’t even come out and yet I’ve already earned merit badges for patience. Granted, the middle of winter isn’t exactly the optimal time to start construction. Also, I forget […]
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