Raising the Roof

Now that our house is finally underway, here are some pictures that shows the progress that has been made to date.

They started in December with clearing the property, digging, and pouring the footers.  There are three acres behind our house that is common area so this will not be developed on.  

The house you see in this picture is the 2014 HGTV Smart Home.

From December to January we had about 3 weeks where nothing happened but finally we had the blocks delivered and the foundation was was poured.

Then another couple of weeks went by and then at the end of February they started framing.

Now in the last two weeks they completed framing out all three floors and the roof was completed!

Within the next two weeks the windows should be in, roof shingled,and the brick laid.  

This is the sample board of our brick and below is the house that we used as our inspiration to choose our brick, shingle, and trim color.  We will not be able to paint our windows the same dark color as our inspiration house.  We were not given a choice on our windows and after we chose our trim colors we were told that we could not paint them dark because of the PVC material in the windows with the dark color will heat at a higher level which could warp the windows.  We were not happy to find this out and would have chosen different windows if we had known this. We will still use the darker trim in other accents and the lighter trim color on the windows will still look nice and I think will make the wood beam headers above the windows more noticable.

Yay for progress!