by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 8, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home, Yea Big
It's been over three months since the tubing for the basement radiant floor hydronic heating was installed. Today sheeting was put down and the tubing for the main floor radiant was put in place. Later Sam took the boys to see the progress and spend some grand time...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 7, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Before moving the enormous dirt pile from the back of the house to the front—and filling in the mote around the front porch—the basement concrete panels were covered with stucco. Unlike typical building materials, stucco can be applied directly to the aerated concrete...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 6, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The builders—waiting for it to stop snowing in April—installed a makeshift staircase from the basement to the main floor yesterday. Alana says they look like “the depths of hell.” Truth be told, it was a little scary for Samson to climb them. But better...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 5, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
In order to meet code, we had to screw straps through the base floor and into the floor trusses with the end attached to the cement wall panels. This was completed today.
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 31, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The main floor walls have been stacked. We were wondering if there were enough block to finish the job, but the crew made it through the top row. It's quite fitting, I think, that the fourth (and final!) cement pour occurred in a downpour. Today we woke up to snow...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 26, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
In our last home all our sinks (with the exception of the laundry room) were either integrated or undermount. In the new house, there won't be any exceptions. Undermount sinks don't have nasty lips that trap gunk and debris. When you have food and liquid on the...
