Day 14 - 02/28/2007

In just 2 short weeks, we have closed on our loan, broke ground, poured footers and now have a completed foundation. We will have to wait until next week (week of 3/5) for the framing to begin. We are expecting some rain tomorrow and it does not make much sense to deliver materials on Friday to have them sit there over the weekend just begging to be a part of someone else's house :)

Here's a picture of the finished foundation...



A few neat things that played out with the foundation:

• We were able to (barely) squeeze two 9' garage doors in the garage space. Since we had to change from a side-loading garage to a front loading garage, there was some concern that we would be limited to 8' doors or a single 18' door. Anyway, our brick mason was able to get the 9' doors with a reasonable amount of space b/w the doors.
• Also, due to the way our lot sloped, we were able to get almost 6' of headroom in a portion of the crawl-space. This will let me store the lawn-mower and things like that under the house so that they will not be taking up much space in the garage.

The carpenters should be able to start early next week. Mandy and I are deciding on brick and roofing colors right now. Once we get our decisions made, we'll try to post some links to the products.

But....to pass some of the time, we have been able to get an image of our house plans. When we went to get this picture, we found out that we could dimension and place furniture in the rooms. This was actually a great find...we determined that the window placement in our master bedroom was not going to let us put all of our furniture in our bedroom...well, not without blocking half of a window.

Anyway, here's our floor-plan. You will probably notice that I am in the kitchen working while Mandy is lounging on the couch and Daisy is sleeping in the chair...typical!

Front of House



First Floor - Click image to super-size




Second Floor