March 15, 2007

Here they've made a ton of progress on the porch and the storage rooms and half bath off of the carport.

March 13, 2007

The framers were hard at work all week. They finished framing all the interior walls and put up ceiling joists. They even started hanging some plywood sheathing. ceiling joists!

March 11, 2007 (#3)

our walk-in closet our shower

calling it a day

March 11, 2007 (#2)

the closet in one of the spare bedrooms the utility closet Peter framing the window in the hall bath The master bedroom The dressing area where we'll have a built in dresser and upper cabinets.

March 11, 2007

Standing in the living room looking towards the kitchen. framing the shower in the master bath. (Mr. Daniel 10' up, Peter Rumfola, Paul Guarisco) More shower framing fun Looking down the hall into the hall bath View from hallway into one of the bedrooms

March 10, 2007 continued

Raising the front wall. (L to R: Daniel Rumfola, Ben Tran, Philip Rumfola, Keith Rumfola) The first interior wall goes up! This is the wall separating the living room and kitchen from the rest of the house. Keith and Ben happy to be calling it a day. The partially framed house at the end of the day.

March 10, 2007

Framing up the first wall. (Left to right: Keith & his broken leg overseeing the work, my dad Stuart Glasco, and our friend Ben Tran) The very first wall going up. (L to R: Ben Tran, Daniel Rumfola, Keith, Stuart Glasco) Raising the rear wall.

March 9, 2007

My wonderful father-in-law spent his day off gluing down base plates.

March 5, 2007

We FINALLY have concrete! Here is the concrete for our carport being finished. (Foreground:Deanie Rumfola. Left to right: Will, Alvin, and Road Dawg) The beautiful slab for our house. This will also be our floor as we plan to polish and seal it. We signed our names along with our four-legged daughter, Mia.

February 20, 2007

After more rain and Keith's broken foot, we were able to hire someone to dig the footings for our foundation. Below is the carport. The footings have been dug, the dirt is covered with visqueen, and the wire mesh is in place. Here is the house with visqueen.

February 10, 2007

We had a few weeks of rain which delayed us getting all the dirt we needed to fill up the forms, but we finally got to start working again. Keith's uncle, Frank (a plumber) did the plumbing rough-in for us. The copper piping with the red and blue sleeves are for hot and cold water, respectively, and the white PVC piping is toilet and tub drains. Keith standing in front of our neighbor's house. Below is the plumbing for the kitchen sink and dishwasher. (Keith and I are SO excited about having a dishwasher, it's not even funny.)

Here is the formed house with the plumbing. Kitchen plumbing again. (Left is sink and dishwasher and right is for the refrigerator)

January 14, 2007

Having quickly tired of sandwiches, Troy breaks out the mini grill and cooks up some brunch.

(pictured: left, Daniel Rumfola; right, Troy Latiolais)

January 13, 2007

Here we are about to set an elevation for our floor. Keith driving the very first nail for the house (for the formwork) Here the formwork for the house is almost complete. Most of the carport was also formed this day, but it was too dark to take pictures by the time we had called it a day. (pictured to the left is our framer and friend, Troy Latiolais)

Here we go!

Here is our floorplan and all the elevations (click on the image for a larger view). Our house is approximately 1,425 square feet of living area and 2,771 square feet total area (this includes carport and porches, etc). Part of our rear porch is screened and we will have a half bath off of our carport which we imagine will come in handy when we have parties. Also off of the carport are two rooms: one is for Keith and all his boy/hunting stuff and the other is my room where I can draw and paint and not have to put anything away!