by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 26, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Today the crew poured the large front porch. There are also two stoops, one for the front door and one for the office door. There will be a few steps from the front walk to the porch. We want to minimize those at it makes access more difficult. There was a problem...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 22, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The interior walls for the main floor were finished today. It's great to walk from room to room and see the scale in real life, instead of just on paper. The house is taking shape!
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 21, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Five guys with hardhats from Tempest arrived on the scene this morning to install the gas line. The line goes into the basement wall in the hall near the laundry room. We paid to have the gas line installed some weeks ago.
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 20, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The back patio and walkway are in! The crew dug the holes for the footings last week and yesterday they laid the forms. This morning the cement truck came and they poured and smoothed out the surface. Gorgeous. This crew does beautiful concrete work. (Can concrete be...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 16, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Yesterday the concrete in the third bay in the single garage was poured. I saw one guy smoothing it yesterday afternoon. Looks very nice and, as far as I could tell from a cursory look, no one walked through it. They also scored the concrete in the larger garage area...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 15, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
A big “thank you” is in order for the curious neighbor who just had to sneak into our house sometime after dark last night. Putting holes across the gorgeous and smooth new concrete that had been poured and finished in the double garage was, I'm sure,...
