Another weekend update

We visited the house site several times this weekend, mostly just to kill some time in between various appointments and meetings. But there was a lot to look at. About 50% of the outer shell is now complete. The back wall is done, except for where the sunroom is; the west wall, which is windowless, is done, the front wall is half-done; and the east wall is done. The west wall encloses the first floor bedroom/den, the bathroom, and the office. The east wall is where the kitchen is. So we are able to look out the window framing to see what our view will be. Very nice, very exciting!

The windows on the first floor are huge - they are six feet tall, and should let in plenty of light. The bedroom has one double window, so there is a huge 6x6 hole in that wall; the office has the same windows, but split, so there are two huge 3x6 holes there.

The framers had finished most of the framing for the front wall, which will join up with the wall for the office already completed; in that wall are the front door and windows into the dining room. I'm not sure if they will do the sunroom at the same time as the rest of the exterior walls or if they save that for some reason. We'll see today, they should be able to easily finish the exterior today.

We met with Tom on Friday, and there were only two issues he needed to address. One was that we had chosen a 4-foot shower for the first floor bath and he's spec'ed out a 5-foot shower: we said that we chose whatever was presented to us, and that that shower should just be chnaged to the 5-foot version. The second issue is that the first floor bedroom can't be a bedroom, per the town. So we are removing the closet and turning that space into a nook, and calling it a den. Whatever. We're still going to put a bed in there.

We met another neighbor, one whose house we can see from our kitchen window. They have a 3-car garage, the only thing we don't have that I really would have liked. The house next door is nearly done - the siding is almost all up and a large shed build into the side is nearly done, too. I like tracking where that house is in the process because we're roughly two months behind them.