Beams, Floors & Well

The house is coming along....we have had a few more delays due to lumber yard error and our concrete guy booked solid since he was pretty much a month behind due to the rain this Spring. Anyways, here is the what the front of our house looks like right now. The 4 posts in front of the house will be where the big truss will go. It will form a covered front porch.

The back of the house:

Here is the huge ridge beam that will be exposed in the living room/entry. The lumber yard "forgot" to order the rafters that will come off of this beam, so we have another week until those get here. In the meantime, Layne put up the I-Joists (there to hold the insulation above the area, but they will not show) and covered it as much as he could so our concrete floors could get finished:

Here is what our floors looked like before they were stained...pretty shiny due to 6 coats of sealer!
After many test samples, we decided to go with a chocolate brown color. It's a little wild for me, but Joe and Layne keep trying to reassure me that it will be fine. :) I tried to get some good pictures, because most people think we're out of our minds for putting in concrete floors (they're probably thinking it will look like a garage floor. We will grout the grooves, so it will look like large 3'x3' tiles. I've already started to look for some fun area rugs.

Finished floors in living room:

Now that the floors are done, they will lay down protective cardboard and start going crazy inside. Windows, siding, roof, interior walls, electrical, plumbing, drywall will all go in over the next couple of weeks! It seems like we've been waiting forever for the floors to get done, but now things should get moving.

They also drilled our well last week. The hit a good water source at 300 feet! Here are some pictures of the drilling rig:

I thought it was cool that the truck's front end was off the ground:

This is where the drill went into the ground:

All done:

The water line comes in next to the electrical box by the garage:

Thanks for checking in on us!!! Tara

Starting to Look Like a House!

Construction of our new house is in full swing! All of the exterior walls went up and then they got covered with plywood:

The living room windows (with transom windows above)...this area will be vaulted with exposed timbers:

The trusses went on next. I was hoping to get a picture of the crane lifting them on, but I arrived just as they finished:

They then fully enclosed the house, except for the entry/living room which will be covered with custom made trusses and rafters. The garage side:
You can kinda see the area to be timber framed below...right now it looks like a house with a huge skylight in the middle! This is the back side of the house:
Joe up in the attic area above the garage:
Maya peaking out of a window on the bedroom side:

Maya crawling on the huge ridge beams that will go in this week:

The drilling rig came last Thursday and they will start drilling the well tomorrow. We budgeted for 300 feet, so let's hope they don't have to go any deeper! :)

It's starting to become real now and we're getting even more excited. We're hoping to be in sometime in September...fingers crossed.

Tara