Picture Day

I have some pictues my dad took while he was here and a few more I took.  I thought today would be a good day for just pictures.

I do want to start talking more about some of the system we are putting in and giving a bit more detail about why this house is 'green', some of the things we thought about when designing and the systems we will have in place once the house is built to live a more sustainable lifestyle. 

And with that ... pictures!

Attic Space

Rafters

almost finished with rafters!

View from front

Gable up, roof rafters in place



the water membrane is on, this is how it will be until next spring when we put the shingles on.



View from roof looking down onto roof top deck

Everyone's working!

Putting up the roof rafters on the back

Snow Day

It snowed.  A lot.  4" by the end of the day.  The guys were going to work, then it really started to come down, so they opted to button things up & head to the coffee shop.

My dad was really sad.  He had to go to Cabela's  :)

It's kind of nice to have the stress of the first snow out of the way...



after a 1/2 day of melting...



Roof, Day 2!



Hams!

I think this picture says it all!  The wonderful thing about this is that I didn't even ask them to do make fools of themselves, they just did it.  They make my job so easy!  :)

I wanted to show you a view from the front of the house. The house shows easily from the east side, but from the street view, the house is very much to scale of the other houses in the neighborhood. Many of the two story houses are at the other end of the street.

Yesterday they got the east side gable up.  Something we talked about over dinner...this can happen with three people on the job, where as it took Nathan & Keith lots of thinking and doin' to get the other side up, in a much longer amount of time.



Erik worked on the painting of the gable peices.  We have them painted, then put together so we don't have to get up their later (next summer) and paint them & they are protected for this winter.  Much easier than climbing up there.  Since we don't have to, we won't!  He has a system going in the shop & the heat up so the paint will dry quickly. 

Why I'd like to have him off the roof when the weather comes...

chattin' on the roof...J is always very careful when she's on the roof...and so are we.

hard to believe there is snow in the forecast for tomorrow...blue skys and 55'...maybe it'll miss us...

I haven't posted many interior pictures.  I think they just look confusing in photos right now.  I am however very excited about our new bedroom and bathroom...The bedroom is a bit different than I thought it was going to be, so I've been rearranging furntiure in my sleep.



 This is from the doorway looking in & to the right. 

looking down the hall into our bathroom

Boxed In

Yeah!  We have the front part of the house all boxed in now!  The attic floor is framed & sheathed.  My Brother-In-Law (Nathan's cousin) is here helping us before the snow flies.  My dad also had a few days, so he's here working again to.  We're SO thankful to have a bit of help.  I've been stressed seeing the frost on the windshield & know that Nathan is going to be on the slick plywood 30 some odd feet off the ground...not cool! 

We do have some safety precautions in place.  The biggest one being that he puts tarps over everything so the frost/ice is settling on the tarp and not actually on the surface he's walking on.  Ok.  That's great.  Let's just get the roof on and not have to go up there in potential bad weather, shall we?

Erik, Dad & Nathan pulling up the front roofline

You can do cool things like this with three people!

Nathan and Erik toss the lines down, Dad connected the boards and they were hoisted up to the roof!  See!  Cool things like that can be done with three people!  It's a bit more complicated when you're by yourself!

Almost there!

Eye on the sky

More to come!