It's Looking Like a House!

After two week of framing, our house has come a long way! All the walls are up and they have started laying the rafters for the ceiling and roof. It's so exciting to walk in and start to visualize what the house will look like. We chose the color of our shingles last week, Driftwood. What an easy decision. We looked at the board and that was the only color that made sense to us. This week we will go to the plumbing supply store to pick out all of our fixtures. On Friday, some men came and drilled our well. It was interesting to watch them drill off the back of their truck. Now that the well is done, the next phase of the house (after framing is complete) is to lay all the rough-ins for plumbing.

Day Two of Framing

Here is a picture of Daddy and Miss A standing where one of the bedrooms will be. Maybe hers?? We'll let her choose!
These framers are fast. This was taken after just two days of framing. They have completely finished all the basement interior walls and already started laying floor joists for the main floor. I can't wait to see what they accomplished today!

Framing Begins

Framing began on our house today. A crew of 8 Amish men will be framing for the next 4 weeks. They are very hard workers and they do use power tools. However, they still do not believe in having their picture taken so you won't see any pictures with them in it. I have to wait until they are having lunch or done for the day to take a picture. In other news, we did finally choose a brick, our house will have Royal Burgandy brick, which is a deep red color. It should look nice against the stone we chose since it also has a few red stones in the mix. Next on the list is choosing roofing. We are already getting tired of making all these choices and we still have months to go! I can't wait until we are finished!