by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 11, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The floor trusses are up and the plywood for the base of the main floor started going down yesterday. It's supposed to be finished today. Since the new house plans have the garage in the basement with living space above (instead of the reverse in the old house plans),...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 8, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When we were getting bids on the house, the electrical bid seemed unusually high. We were told the plan had too many can lights and we needed to remove “some.” Truth: we had too many cans and needed to remove some. We have this thing about living in homes...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 4, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Today the concrete basement floors were poured! Few things are more exciting to two little boys that a cement mixer shooting rocks and goo out of a tube. So we bundled up in our snow gear and headed to the building site. And we watched the amazing concrete crew in...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 30, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
It's likely that we've had more snow this past December than any other in my lifetime. I attribute this to two things: The construction gods are trying to sabotage our building efforts Global warming Whichever is responsible, it's keeping progress to a crawl. Once the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 21, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Don't get technical with me. I'm no tradesman. But I can tell you that the plumber came and ran a whole slew of black pipes all over the ground. They are poking up everywhere. All kinds, for toilets, sinks, showers, floor drains, utilities, appliances. I can't...
