Construction: Day 18-19

After the window debacle, The Husband mentioned going out to the house again on Saturday to check the INSIDE of the house for any "oopsies".  So we did.  I'll take any opportunity to visit.

Here's what it looked like on Saturday afternoon (day 19).  They got a lot of work done on day 18 before they left! 

(and no interior mistakes!)

You can see the finished framing the garage and all exterior and interior walls.  The roof is next!

I went a little shutterbug crazy and took photos of every single inch of the house.  When I got home and uploaded them, I realized it looked like a bunch of wood and nobody would be able to differentiate between the rooms (except me).  So, I only included this one for today.

That is our front door and foyer.

(Pretend like you just walked into the front door).  Once you get to where the two slats of wood are (on the floor) - that will be a large archway.  The doorway that would be to your right (left in this photo) leads to the garage.  The door next to it is a closet.  To your left would be the entrance to the kitchen. 

I'm thinking a video tour is in order very soon.  I'll work on that next week. 

Construction: Day 17-18

Well, I guess once the concrete was dry someone put the pedal to the medal.  Look at my beautiful (slightly imperfect) house!

 There are walls, and places for windows, and doors, and EVERYTHING.

Who has two thumbs and is pumped about progress???? This girl.  

Here you can (sorta) see the big window that's in the breakfast area, and two small windows in the living room (look for the headers over the windows to find them).

And above, you can see the back of the house...

 where all the windows in the master bedroom are WRONG.  

#1:  There is currently four windows... and there should only be three

#2:  Three of those four windows in the flat out, wrong location.  

Trust me, we went over window locations in the "pre construction meeting" but I guess someone didn't take very accurate notes.

The window on the 'bay' (turn) is correct.  

The one to the right should not even be there.

The one to the left is about two feet too far to the left.  

The furthest one is about four feet too far to the left.  

Thankfully, it's just wood and can be re-done without too much issue.  The 'guy in charge' assured me they would get it fixed asap and he apologized for the mistake.  I guess it's not too big of deal.  When I called The Husband at work to tell him, he was all excited thinking we could get an extra window for "free".  Sadly, the way the windows are placed right now leaves exactly zero wall space for furniture and doesn't make sense at all.  It's got to be fixed.  

This is just a gentle reminder I need to continue my (obsessive) check ins.  

Construction: Day 14-16

I guess this phase of construction is called "watching concrete dry".

It's super exciting.  And super affirming that they're going to finish on time.

When I drove by the house this morning they had chalked out where all the walls would go - so it was neat to 'walk through' our house and see where everything would be.  Everything still seems impossibly small, but I'm sure that's because there are no walls and my perception is with the great outdoors.  

I didn't even check my camera to see if the chalk lines showed up.  And they didn't.  So here is a shot of our concrete slab. 

Here you can see they knocked down an additional tree.  It was about 7 feet from the foundation, and although the builders/engineers said it was fine to be that close to the slab - it made The Husband very nervous.  His grandmother's house was wrecked with foundation issues and the trees seem to be an easy target.  I was sad to see this one go, but it wasn't worth The Husband's irrational fears for the next thirty-something years. 

You can see it here, before the slaughter:

(photo taken from the back side of the house)