Our designer sent us the 3D renderings of several elevations on the house and garage, and my heart exploded. Take a look… We love it! You can see a couple different chimney options and garage options there. There are some complications with how to do an exposed exterior chimney chase on a house with this […]
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House Design: Version 2 – The Basic Concept
Starting New at Where We Started When we first began dreaming of building a house years ago before we had even acquired our dream-property, we would have idealistic discussions of what it would look like. I came to learn over time that much of what we discussed had been originally planted in Tonia’s mind years […]
Back to the Drawing Board
An Update on the Last Few Months Things have gone rather quiet for a while on our house build project. The last time we updated this blog, we were beginning to involve builders in the discussion; setting about getting rough estimates from a few different carpenters. Up until that point, we had been relying on […]
Haying Season
We hung out at our land tonight, watching the neighbor bail hay… Bluebird skies, the smell of hay dust in the breeze, 85 and sunny….ahhhh, summertime! We picked rocks and added them to our growing rock pile (will be a stone wall running along the driveway someday…) This is a favorite activity of 2-year-old Pehr. […]
House Design – Part Three
Our updated floor plan arrived from the architect! This is the second draft of the layout. We actually really loved the very first rendition she ever showed us, but the house was just too big. We need to be able to afford to actually build this thing. So we asked her to attempt to scale […]
House Design – Part Two
Hello, and happy summer! Our family has been busy with fun summer stuff…gardening, beach days, some travel, horse shows for me, home improvement projects for Mike, etc. There is also exciting progress happening with the new house design… We’ve now met with our architect a few times, and can finally see what the house is […]
Trillium Season
The woods are bursting with trilliums right now! We took a walk on our land earlier this week, carefully weaving between the big white blooms. We also had our eyes pealed for wild leeks (also known as ramps), which come up around the same time as the trilliums, but didn’t find any. They like low, […]
House Design – Part One
Last week and this week were exciting for us. We met with our architect, Cheryl, twice and received the first set of rough drawings from her at the second meeting. There was a lot of anticipation for these meetings and a lot of pressure to clearly communicate what our vision is, our budget, etc. The […]
Spring is Here
Happy spring! It has been a long wait. Finally, in the last week of April, the snow melted for good. The little pond on our land is exploded with spring peepers. Their chorus followed us through the woods as we wandered this evening, looking for wild-flower blooms (none yet). A pair of Wood Ducks flew […]