No More Dirt! The Wall Framing Is Done! And I You Can Park In The Garage!

Welcome back yet again! Sorry about the time in between posts! There's been so much progress and now that I have been here to see it in person It is so much bigger in person. One big deal is we don't have any dirt sitting around because the garage foundation was filled in yesterday. Pictures Below!

This is the root that was underground attached to one of the trees we cut down earlier but it came up while filling in the garage foundation. It's still amazing to me how such a small root keeps theses 100' trees from falling down in the wind.

This is the front of the house in plywood. Now all the framing is finished inside except for the loft, but that will be added later after the roof is done.

This picture is of the basement doors (shop and living area) there will be a deck above it that wraps around the house and a small patin outside the basement.

We got to park in the "garage" for the first time!

House from the side before the garage walls were up.

Trash :) Now theres one problem with having a job site up here in the U.P. (if you don't get the U.P. look it up) but anyway, there is only ONE trash/dumpster company and they charge a LOT to have a dumpster on site. So the plan as of now is to STACK until we get the excavators to haul it away.

This is the back of the house door looking into the kitchen. We'll be putting the grill and future hot tub back here.

Inside Framing and amazingly clean floor. Our secret.....Wait till giant storm comes and in the morning everything is washed away

Only A Couple More Outside Walls To Go!

Welcome back!! Well today even more walls are up, the garage footings have been poured and..... We have a lot of extra dirt! Don't exactly have any idea where to put it now... Anyway, pictures are below with captions! Thanks for following along!

The wall on the right is mostly the wall between the garage and the kitchen, but also, first window on right is from the dining room to the drive way the door is from the garage into the mud room, the window in the middle is the laundry room window, and the big door is the slider from the kitchen to the "back yard".

dining room window to the driveway

  laundry room window

slider from kitchen to outside, we have dirt issues as you can see

garage footings poured

dining, garage, laundry room wall from out side. You will not see most of this wall from the outside due to the garage

We Have Real Walls!! And Some Other Fun Stuff!!!

Welcome back! We have some of the walls for the main floor done and it looks awesome! Pictures below with captions this time!

The quote from my dad for this picture is "from this day on and forever more this will be "Mom's Corner". Or "grandma's corner". Mom designed this area with the windows for both views and she wanted them to be at side table height. She got what she asked for"

View from the hill

View from "Mom's Corner" towards long lake

Best view from a bathroom I've ever seen! 

View of the front corner, den/bedroom, main door from the lake and bathroom window

Crawlspace under the kitchen and laundry room. The garage will be to the right of this.

So this is a view from the dock towards east lake and the fire pit. Right behind the fire pit is a sight hill/ditch without any trees near it. 

So I suggested to my dad that since we don't have much of a yard at the top of the hill I wondered if we could add dirt down in this area so we could have a lawn/bigger fire area down by the dock. And sure enough, look where the dirt ended up! 

At the end of the day, we get to have a view like this. 

Happy Friday! Thanks for following along and have a great weekend!! 

It's Been Raining... A Lot. But The Work Continues!

So the weather hasn't been the best this week but everything is still going along as scheduled! The floor was finished and the Kitchen, Dining Room and Laundry Room now have a foundation. Pictures below! Also, the two doors in the basement will lead to two separate parts of the basement, one as a living room and one as a shop.

Wow! Almost Two Floors In A Week!

We almost have the main floor done! Check out the pictures below!

We Have A Floor!!!

Welcome back! So yesterday we had the floor poured and today the main beams were put in!

Also, for anyone worried about our wild animals, the ducks were seen with another group of baby ducks and a mom. So I guess she adopted them! The turtle eggs were moved to the side of the camper and put in a nice warm pile of sand. So we will see what their future will be in the posts to come! Also, we had a visit from one of the local bald eagles on the old tree by the bridge today. (Pictured Below)

First Baby Ducks Now Turtle Eggs!!!

So today my dad woke up to a mother turtle laying her eggs in the sand on the construction site. Don't exactly know what to do about them now knowing they are in the way of everything going on. Thanks for following along!