Framing - First Floor

This might be picture overload....but this is the most exciting thing we've had happen in awhile! :) Our first floor is framed! Yay! Photos below are "clickable", if you want to see a larger version. And yes, it was raining! Ready to use your imagination??

Front of the house, garage to the right:


Side view of the garage:



Walk-out basement side (there's more windows that haven't been cut out yet):


Back of the house:



Standing in the kitchen, looking at the fireplace and great room:

Standing in the kitchen, but looking at the laundry room:

Still in the kitchen, but turned 90 degrees to look at the dining room (pantry on either side):

Great room:

Kitchen:

And that's it for now...

Framing begins! :)

It's not pretty yet....but they finally started! Yay!

Uh oh....snow!

Well, I guess it's a good thing that they didn't start framing yet. We woke up to snow today! There's probably about 4-5 inches on the ground now. :(

We have a basement!

I've been admittedly slacking on the updates. It's been fairly quiet, though. Once they start framing, I'll be updating frequently, I'm sure. Anyway...the latest update, we have a basement! Photos are below.


Front:

Back:

Inside:

The whole thing from above:

Basement forms are set

The forms for the basement walls are in. They're pouring the basement walls on Monday.

We have footers!

They poured the footers yesterday and are pouring the frost footers today. Thursday, they're pouring the basement walls. Moving right along! Here's the latest pics:

First day of construction!!!

FINALLY!!! *happy dance* :) Oct 25th is our official first day of construction.










Some of the Fall scenery:





I'm sure I'll be posting updates a lot more often from now on. ;)

So it's been awhile...

I know I haven't updated this in a month.....but I've been SO busy! A lot has happened so I will fill everyone in as quickly as possible. We closed on the construction loan/mortgage last Friday. We ended up with a rate of 6.25% so not horrible, but not awesome either. If we would have done this a year or two ago, I bet we would have been at 5 something. Bummer! We got our permits back and they were partially denied. So they were fixed by the builder and should have been resubmitted yesterday. We SHOULD have those back in 2-3 days. So we're on the builder's schedule to break ground end of next week. Yay! My next update should have pics. *fingers crossed*

Building Permits

Well, Titan will finally be submitting the building permits on Friday. Yay! Now everyone cross your fingers for us for a speedy permit approval! :)

Final numbers were submitted to the mortgage company too....so now we just have to wait for underwriting to finish and then the title people. That should be about 2 weeks. We ended up being only $600 over what we wanted to be, so not bad at all.

Hopefully, my next post will be photos of actual construction. Can't wait!! :)

Photos of our cornfield

Ok, you're going to have to use your imagination....a lot. We had to meet an excavator for an estimate Tuesday night and while I was there, I snapped a few pics of the property. Of course we met him at like 7pm so the sun was setting. I apologize for the darkness of some of these.

All photos should be "clickable" if you want to see a larger version.

The house will be right in the "grass" in the front of this photo, facing the left. So right now you'd be looking at the garage door and side of the house.

The view out our front door will be this:

Our back yard:

Sunset photo....we get an awesome view of the sunset every night....can't wait!:

And finally a photo of the creek at the end of the family property: