Day 84 of our dream home build – almost boxed in!

Hello everyone! Time has been FLYING since I’ve been back at work. I’ve got so many ideas for new posts, but I thought I should at least start with sharing some more of our house progress before we get too much further into the build. After a couple weeks of blocking and sheeting, we are now entering the more interior parts of the home update!

Here’s a picture of what our house is looking like now:

Notice anything different? I hope so! We have a roof, all of our windows besides two in the basement, and a poured garage floor!

The builder’s crews are really rockstar’n on our home, and we just have a few more things needing to be completed before we’re completely boxed in! They’ll try to put our front door in as late as they can, so it doesn’t get damaged while contractors are coming in and out of the house. We still need two sliders installed, but we’re not sure if they’re waiting on finishing our deck (upstairs slider) or moving in the mechanicals (downstairs slider) beforehand. Our garage doors will likely be later on since we at least have a ‘bang door’ closing off the house. This was installed after we let our builder know about some lookie loo’s that were just exploring our house. They were nice people, but it was pretty forward of them to be exploring our home with their dog without asking. If you ever see new construction – please don’t do this without permission from the owner. New construction is EXPENSIVE (like everything nowadays), and we have to carry our own builder’s risk insurance for if anything gets damaged/stolen or someone injured while on our property. I’m so glad we live right next door to our build to keep an eye on it. That said, I love showing people around or giving them a tour, so it really is just the uninvited entry into our home that had us concerned.

Oh, we also need our patio doors installed before we’re boxed in! We assume that will be done after the concrete living room patio is poured. It’s actually pretty neat – they’ll pour concrete over a steel sheeting instead of backfilling our patio “hole”.

For our other deck, we picked out Fiberon ‘Sandstone’ composite decking. We were leaning towards TimberTech Weathered Oak to match our interior floors, but it was a bit out of budget and not the standard choice of our builder. We decided there are other things we’d prefer to ‘upgrade’. Note: it’s not so much an upgrade as it is paying more than our initial estimate we based our construction loan off of! We’ll also do standard white vinyl railing. Below I have a picture of the deck color we chose along with what I imagine our rail will look like:

We also had some great updates to our framing!

Hmm what else! Well, today we had the plumbing and heating/cooling crew working away in the house. We also heard that our electrical walkthrough will be Thursday afternoon!! How exciting! It feels like we’ll be seeing drywall before we know it.

Coming up, I plan to do posts about our primary and hall bath finalized designs now that our shower has been ordered and all tile has been purchased!

But what’s crazy is my next update (since I’m not doing a good job keeping up to date), may have drywall or completed patios to post about!!

Thanks for reading!

Davien