Railing,GarageDoors & Gutters

A lot has changed around the house this week.

Last Saturday the railing guys were finished by the time I came over. I feel so much safer now!

The stone was delivered and slid off the pallet. We stacked stone for several hrs. last Thursday night. Beth was late to Gymnastics but everyone was working together that was fun.

The gutters are on, Green with white downspouts. Man land has galvanized gutters and downspouts to match the tin roof.

The garage doors are on and are the correct height after an adjustment. No more Tyvex paper to cover up the door opening!

Block Columns & Steps & Patio Formed

The front porch has changed a lot lately. The colums are formed the caps and posts are on them it took some getting used to at first but I love them. The Steps are built and ready for stone. The back patio is formed up and ready for concrete.

Crown Molding & Porch Samples

Crown molding is going up,look at that corner, base board is finished,& we are starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. The barn addition started already, the ditch is for the geothermal wells.The pipes are now in the house and the ditch is covered. That might mean we can have airconditioning soon!

On the porch I have a sample of the stone, the green gutter metal. Let me know what you think, I am thinking about green gutters and white downspouts or just all green. In the second picture I messed around with paint to see if the green gutters will look good and the stone with the wood columns.

The insulation is in under the house it looks great the white stuff is to keep the moisture from the ground away from the house. The walls are sprayed with foam insulation to keep it warm under there.

The concrete is set and the girls had a great time on it! We have lights on in every room so now we can work later yea!

New Porch & Doors

We have a new concrete porch now and we have interior doors. The kids learned alot just watching the whole thing, Alec even got to use a nail gun!

Drywall Finished And Waterproofing

The kids were very amazed by the handy ride on skid steer thing the waterproofing guys had. I have to admitt Iwas too. The drywall is finished these are not the final pics. of that just a few I had on the camera. Things have been a little crazy around here lately the sinks been clogged for weeks. Between school, dishes, & laundry I haven't had time to take pics.

I am also picking colors for the walls and its starting to look like the set of Designing Women around here between the paint swatches and the tile bords. I am starting to see why people get paid to do this. I am thinking pale green up here for the kids common area, green is calming thats very important! Trim is going up currently I will post those pics this week.

Drilling The Wells and Burning The Steps

The first pictures are of the drilling rig drilling the wells for the geo thermal heat and air. The hit limestone so the water and all the ground around it had lime on it and in it the ground is still white.

We got the old porch removed and now there is a block wall around that dirt that I forgot to take a picture of but I got a picture of Wyatt helping with the mortor. The old steps are on the fire in the picture at the bottom here .