Last Week for Updates...

Hello Everyone,

I will be very busy for the next two months or so. I go to Vermont next week to finish off my MBA residency. I fly back to St. Louis, pick up my bag, and head directly to another terminal to catch my flight to Washington. I will be gone until mid-July....therefore, my weekly updates on the house will not occur. So enjoy these latest pics because they are the last ones you'll see until the house is practically done. We are still on schedule for a July 31st closing, so when I get back from Washington it will be just the finishing touches.

Here is a summary of last week: poured cement for 3-car garage and basement, built basement stairs, plumbing finished, HVAC installation continues, brick facing with stone accents started, low-voltage electrical goes in on Tuesday next week, and my pre-drywall walk-thru is next Thursday.

More updates from the road...

-TimBrick facing and stone work continues through next week...
View of staircase to second floor and a partial view of breakfast nook and kitchen...

View coming in from the front door: study entrance on left, family room and fireplace on center/right, stairs to second floor...

View of loft at the top of the staircase...

View of coffered ceiling in the master bedroom...

I cannot take credit for the look of the brick or stone, Jami selected them while I was doing school work. What can I say? She has excellent taste...


Basement pour and staircase completed...

Partial view of dining room and front entrance...

No More Wall-to-Wall Skylight...

Hello everyone!

Well, our little "mud pit" is growing up into a full-blown home...complete with a roof. I am no carpenter, but it looks to me like the Rolwes Company is doing a good job. Two windows made the ultimate sacrifice during the roofing process, but the roof looks great. I am going to miss walking through the house without the wall-to-wall skylight. Plumbers also came in to lay some pipe--heh, heh, couldn't help it. The next step should be the installation of heating and cooling

ducting.

Here are a few pics from my last visit to the site...
















Working on a Saturday sucks....

















Sliding glass door is in...

















There is also a new light that will no doubt shine
like a navigational beacon into my bedroom...

That little hole in the RH corner of the foundation

is an egress window...or perhaps a discrete entrance
to the speak-easy I'll be constructing in the basement.
I'll let you be the judge...

More to follow. Happy Memorial Day!

-Tim

More Progess Is Being Made!

Tim went out to the new house today to see the progress that was made this week. The entire first floor is frammed and the second floor is now frammed as well. According to the foreman for the builder, they are going to put the roof beams on the house Tuesday. We are supposedly only two days behind schedule according to the foreman. Hopefully we don't get farther behind, but I am not holding my breath too hard. :)

Front of the house

Side of house

Back of house

Cardinals Game

Three weeks ago when I flew out to visit Tim, he took me to the Cardinals game. We had a fun time being in a new ballpark, but we also had a learning experience in parking as well. To start this, let me tell you all that when you park at the parking garage at Safeco Field in Seattle to watch the Mariners, we usually pay $30. So, we knew that Busch Stadium (where the Cardinals play) and Edward D. Jones Stadium (where the Rams play) are close to each other, or so we thought. Since we didn't really know where we were going, when we got off the freeway and saw a sign for event parking next to the Edward D. Jones stadium for $20, we jumped on it only to find out that the was a motor cross event going on at the Edward D. Jones Stadium. No big deal we thought, we would just walk, and walk we did for over a mile. As we got closer to Busch Stadium, there was baseball parking for $5 and garage parking at the stadium for $15. At least we got some exercise out of our expensive parking spot. Lesson learned for the next ball game we go to.

New House

This is the front of the house taken from the neighbors yard.
This is the back of the house taken from the backyard.

Tim and I went out to the new house today to check the progression. We finally have the start of walls on the first floor!!!!! Holy smokes, we thought we would never see this day. Now we are just hoping the weather will hold out so they can get the rest of the house framed this week.