I had great plans of making weekly updates on our house building. We usually visit every Sunday. So much for my plans. The foundation is done and the framing is nearing completion. The Man is serving as his own general contractor instead of paying someone else to do it and I’m so proud of how hard he has worked and everything he has learned. Its amazing how many changes have to be made from the original plans as we go along. But our framer says that is common – house plans are not as accurate as you think they would be.
Our house is being built on a “family compound.” My sister is building next door, our youngest sister will be next door to her when she is ready to build, and our brother is a little farther down the road near his horse barn.
My dad is a farmer and you would think it would be easy to give his children a plot of land to build a house. It has taken over 8 years since we moved back to my home town for my father to work out a plan acceptable to the county’s regulations.
This is the front of the house.
This is the view from the breakfast room/kitchen area. You can’t quite see the water/marsh through the trees.
Kitchen – That’s the counter top right in the front
