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Monday, June 6, 2011

Updates

We've been busy.

Swimming. Sweating it out in this heat. Researching appliances. Choosing paint colors. Working with electricians and LV wiring guys. Visiting our house every day to check on the progress. Laughing a lot with these wild, wonderful boys of ours. Meeting with a cabinet designer and working on the design of our kitchen. Deciding to put in some built in bookshelves in our hallway. Watching as our balcony and stairs have gone up.

Loving every minute of - and yet wishing it would go faster - building a house.

We are truly blessed to live this adventure together. It is wild. It is hard. It is stressful and crazy and so much fun.

(And I will be so, so happy to move in in a few months!!!)

Updates

Sunday, June 5, 2011

WEEKEND HOMEWORK / HÉTVÉGI HÁZIFELADAT

Elkezdtük leszedni a nappali faláról a tapétát. Előtűntek a festékrétegek, sőt még egy "kicseslyukra" is ráleltünk.

On weekend we've just begun to get off the old wallpaper. Some of the old paintworks appeared and we also find a "treasure hole" in the wall.

Here is something! Itt van valami!

Treasure hole / Kincses lyuk

Love Confession / Szerelmi vallomás

Stonecrop in bloom / Kivirágzott a kövirózsánk is

WEEKEND HOMEWORK / HÉTVÉGI HÁZIFELADAT

Elkezdtük leszedni a nappali faláról a tapétát. Előtűntek a festékrétegek, sőt még egy "kicseslyukra" is ráleltünk.

On weekend we've just begun to get off the old wallpaper. Some of the old paintworks appeared and we also find a "treasure hole" in the wall.

Here is something! Itt van valami!

Treasure hole / Kincses lyuk

Love Confession / Szerelmi vallomás

Stonecrop in bloom / Kivirágzott a kövirózsánk is

Monday, May 30, 2011

Bricks. Mortar. Progress!

Our house is really coming along.

So well, in fact, that it has become like a drug. If I don't go over there at least every other day or so, I start to go a little crazy - though that is more (really? only because of... Can't wait to move on. And move in!) because of this apartment we're living in.

We are beyond excited about the four walls and the spaces in between (and outside, too). It's very nearly all we talk about. The house has infected our dreams (and our loved ones' dreams, too!). We are, simply put, smitten.

A few things have happened since I last posted pictures. I think the framing had begun, but wasn't complete, at last report. Since then, we have exterior walls. Everything is framed. Windows have been installed. Deck and porch have been constructed. Shingles are on the roof. Siding is nearly complete on the house. Brick is being laid in the next 5 days. HVAC is in. Plumbing is in. (Ian LOVES his bathtub!) Our tray ceiling is framed out. We have spigots on the exterior of the house.

It really is all so exciting.

Up next, finishing the siding and brick. Passing inspection from the city so that we can move forward with insulation and sheet rock! We met with the cabinet design woman on Thursday and decided on our kitchen layout and where we're putting our built-ins. Can't wait to see them! We've got to pick appliances by next week (which is so overwhelming, actually) and then lighting fixtures, tile, cabinets, countertops, etc.

It's an amazing process...to build a house. To see something from the pen-and-paper stage come to life is fantastic.

We are so invested. So in love. So thrilled with our home, and the coming together of a dream and its reality.

A few pictures to show you where we are now...

Exterior framing complete

Driving down our street from Third Ave.

We were initially thinking that the house was going to appear too tall for the street (we have 9 foot ceilings in the basement and on the 2nd floor, and 10 foot ceilings on the main floor), but we think it sits really well on the lot and doesn't overpower its neighbors.