At the end of the framing process

We're nearing the end of the framing process and have been very pleased with how the house is coming together.  We have run into a couple of changes and Greg (head framer) has been great to make those changes.  Below is a picture of the new closet door opening in one of the bedrooms.  Our plan had a pocket door but we realized after it was framed that we wanted a regular door so they were able to make the change.  I can't imagine if we were still living in the southern metro trying to be onsite and present during the construction process - that would have been a challenge.

 

This is a picture of the pocket door that hopefully they'll be able to return.

The plumbers have started to rough in the plumbing in the house.  The picture below is the shower/tub in our future kids bathroom:

 

And the pipes in our master bath:

The heat guys have also started putting in the heat/duct work:

 

  

 

And part of our front porch is done:

 

 

I'm leaving on Friday and will be gone for almost 10 days (with a quick night at home in the middle).  Before I leave we have a lot of decisions to make and I'm confident we'll get everything done.  Tonight we need to decide if we're going to finish off our second bonus room - which is above the third stall of the garage.  We have the pricing and now just need to decide if we're going to spend the money now or later.

We have about a three hour walk thru scheduled on Thursday afternoon so I'm really, really, really hoping for warm weather.  I was out at the house tonight for maybe 15 minutes and was frozen.  The walk thru is with the electrician and cabinet maker so we'll have made many more decisions by the end of the week.  We also basically decided on all of our plumbing fixtures.  Our builder ended up "letting" us purchase our own fancy hand held showers and rain shower so now I just need to place the order so it arrives before the plumber is ready to install.

Reminder to anyone who is considering building a house....it's a lot of work!  It will be worth it when we move in but the process requires significant research and a tremendous amount of attention to detail.