As I wrote the other day, they began framing the house Friday. They worked until noon Friday, so they didn't make a huge amount of progress. But as you can see from the pictures below, they did all of the prep work they need to really start moving. This includes getting the wood placed around the base of where they had already poured the cement foundation.
Along with the exterior stone, we discussed with Glenda options for fireplaces. This is a decision we can push off for a bit yet, but there are a lot of cool options. We even like the one that is currently in our spec book, which is nice.
Afterwords we made our second trip to Condor where we met up with Glenda, one of the owners. They had put together a couple of boards for us to look at based on some pictures we sent them of stone work that we think we like. They didn't hit the mark with what they put together, but Glenda was great and said she'd go to the manufacturer to find the components she thinks she needs to add to the current boards to get the colors and style the way we want it. We're clearly getting to the point where we need to sit down with someone who has an eye for the color combinations so that we aren't matching up stone with shingles with siding in a way that doesn't match. That's something that we'll have to do in the upcoming weeks.
We spent several hours after leaving Condor going back through many of the models we saw very early on in this process. Looking at model homes has transitioned in its usefulness over the course of the last 8 months. We started out looking at models to make our decision whether to build or go with an existing home. Next we went through many of those same models to decide on the structure and layout of the home. We're now finding it important to go back through all of them to look at the multitude of component pieces we're going to need to decide on in the next weeks and months.
Little things like where to put the switch for the garbage disposal or garbage disposals are now important. And those are things we didn't notice or care to pay attention to in June or even September. But we get to create this place (the whole reason we decided to build in the first place), so now we really need to focus on getting those little details exactly right.
Monday, Sara and I are making our second trip to Pipeline in Hopkins to look at plumbing. We were productive there last time. Having run through a few models again will certainly make this next trip even more fruitful.
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