UPDATED [Finally!] Basement project has started! 12/09....page 20


New garage pics....pg 17. More to come!


New Nursery pics.....pg 18

The lawn has arrived 6/6/08....page 19

Landscape pictures....pg 20



Well....myself and the fiance purchased our property back in August of '06. I plan on making this the timeline of our home. We moved out of our nice townhouse and into one bedroom at her parents place...yup, the in-laws! (but its not that bad really) All of our stuff is in storage and i honestly feel like ive been living our of a suitcase for the past 4 months. Anticipated move in date is end of April '07.

Highlights of the home:
Roughly 2500 sqft without the finished basement (~3450 with basement)
-9' ceilings on entire first floor
-Cherry hardwood floors throughout entire first floor foyer, bathroom, kitchen, morning room and hall
-Walkout basement
-9' Poured basement walls (minus 4" slab)
-2.5 car garage
-4 bedroom
-2.5 bath with seperate owners suite including stand up shower and full 2 person jacuzzi tub with jets
-walk in closets
-Recessed lighting throughout kitchen

I neverthought in a million years 5 years ago that by age 25 id be building my first home. With hard work and determination, anything is possible!

I plan to keep this page updated as often as possible!


It starts here:

12/14/06: Our property. Roughly 1 acre in a brand new development with no neighbors around us, we're the only lot in the third phase so i dont anticipate any neighbors for the next year or so. Me over looking my property! (the tree is super cool!)


My team of yellow laborers! (Fiance didnt want to get out of the car..."ITS TOO COLD!")


1/10/07: A HOLE!


1/12/07: Footers are in!


Here you can see the location of my future driveway and the forms in the background for my poured walls.


1/18/07: Forms are in place
Had the forms put in place today and they poured them during the early morning/mid afternoon!

Hmmm something is missing?.....

oh yeaaaa the concrete! duh....


Modified by Mr. Vapor at 11:45 AM 1/23/2008


Modified by Mr. Vapor at 4:33 PM 5/6/2008


Modified by Mr. Vapor at 9:50 PM 5/30/2008


Modified by Mr. Vapor at 2:52 PM 6/6/2008

 

congrats! cant wait to see it complete and furnished!

 

<FONT COLOR="AA2344">finally getting my house ready for me i see. Dont forget my tulips and my garden gnome</FONT>

 

congrats man best of luck with it. the first two pics look like the ones i take for my aunts bank as a side job. Showing how far along a house is that there loaning money on nice little side job.

 

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ive got some pretty slick landscape ideas going on....wait till spring/summer

 

needs a drop.

 

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and a lip


good luck on it

 

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and a lip


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Currently looking for Championship White house paint

 

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LOL...good luck and keep us updated. CONGRATS!

 

congrats, i'm jealous

 

Try sherwin williams for CW paint if you are being serious, they can mix you the car color code into latex paint for your house...(sherwin williams sells their own line of autobody paint ect) and a lot of bodyshops use it.....
They also sell the house paint ...

Or you can go Behr or Glidden

 

^^^ I was 100% joking (but good to know!)

 

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congrats on the house, 10" poured concrete foundation walls i assume?

 

1/22 update. We were able to sneak out to check out the progress during lunch today, Forms are off and preparing to dampproof and backfill the walls tommorow. Lumber should be arriving middle of week and scheduling the framers to be on site full time by friday.

Half of the basement from inside:


Basement:

 

Wow! Cool thread for sure Def different than all the pic requests nowadays! In for progress and completed project, and congrats, man!

--Jake

 

Congrats to you , sir.

 

Home Ownership.

 

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Definitely Can't wait to see it finished.

 

props to you i bought my first house when i was 23.

 

<FONT COLOR="45aa23">if i had that kind of land i would splerge for one of those under ground lifting car ports.</FONT>

 

Awesome

 

Pretty cool.

 

CONGRATS

 

cant wait to see the progress