by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 11, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home, for Money
The man from Questar dropped by and consulted with us about line and meter location. We'll be placing it in between the laundry room wall and the hall wall in the basement. The listed appliances with accompanying BTUs: 1 boiler: 178,000 1 barbecue: 20,000 1 dryer:...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 10, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
A window buck is a temporary box installed within a block wall to block out the space where a window will eventually be installed. A door buck is similar but, obviously, in place of a door. Ours were installed. Looking good. The girls' reactions on seeing their...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 9, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
A few weeks ago I was at a service project with some women in my neighborhood. One of them asked what kind of floors we were going to have in the new house. “Concrete,” I replied. “Oh, are you going to cover it with carpet?” “No.”...
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 | Feb 5, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Finally we have something to see. A hint of the house to be. After the first construction delay followed by another construction delay followed by another lost week of aggravation, we finally see action. I could be worse. It could be raining. Oh, wait. It is. After...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 4, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When we built the last custom home, we determined that we needed a security system. Our house was large and in a moderately remote location. Given that all the lots were five acres, the few neighbors that could even see our home weren't likely to hear anything....
