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Building update

Terrible pic, but as you can see, the roof is going up! Yay! Hopefully it will be dried in before snow flies. All the rooms are framed out so you can go in the house and kind of walk through all the rooms and see how it's going to flow. We are supposed to get a fireplace picked out ASAP. You can now kind of see the house from the road. It is a weird feeling. It still doesn't seem real to me. I think next steps will be bringing in main electric and water lines and gas lines. They have to excavate for all that. We will go through at some point with an electrician and plan our lighting. There are certain things that go in according to code and then we can add extras such as recessed lighting in the kitchen or things like that. I am not sure what all we will do extra. That can bump the cost up pretty quick. I think that I would like to get some special recessed lighting around the fireplace and built in bookshelves to display some art and the will probably do a bit extra in the kitchen. WE'll see what the budget says though.

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Anonymous said…
SOOOOO exciting! It's looking great!
brittany
September 27, 2016 at 2:49 PM
bee said…
It is so cool how a house starts coming together. When they just had it sort of staked out, I thought there was no way 2 cars would fit in the garage. Now that space looks really big. How fun for the girls to get to walk through all the rooms before they are built in and see what it's like and compare to before and after. They can do lots of pretending right now and use their imaginations.
September 29, 2016 at 2:06 PM
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