Well we’re moving right along and like i’ve said, i am having a blast doing this stuff. We have everything decked and turns out i bought about 6 or 7 sheets of plywood too many. We got our stairwell celling up, the angle was tricky and we didn’t have to buy any more lumber for it. Now we are close to 90% done with framing, thank you Conway!
up the stairs
New and final storage room
forts and secrets rooms a plenty
current "storage room"
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down the stairs
I know what you’re thinking, twice in one week… It’s kinda like the old days—back when i started this blog… and i blogged.
Well today was quite productive according to our standards of productivity. As Ej would say, you guys are averaging one wall every two weeks, and i would say, gee you’re being fairly gracious. Anyhow, we had a good solid day today and i have the evidence to prove it, now just you try and enjoy it!
Entry way from the shop area.
From the north door.
My shop is getting smaller...
That would be the way to the living room.
I thought i would give you a little photo tour this evening (about 8:30) of the compound out here where we’re building on my parent’s land…
Here's the pond.
Next the well-house and my parents garage.
My parent's house and on the left, our house.
The driveway. (If you were to go all the way back you'd get to my grandparent's house.)
There's the place—the barndo—the shouse—home!
Well it has been over a month since i have posted anything about the house and you just might be getting worried that all work has ceased. But have no fear, the saga continues and actually i am feeling pretty good because i can almost start to see an end to this framing business, now only if it could be progressing as consistent and rapidly as Ephraim (again pronounced Eh-frum).
So yes, we are still framing, but that isn’t all we’re doing. Work has also begun on our cabinets—that would be the kitchen and bathroom vanities—thanks to my grandpa Tony. He is the master craftsman and Spencer and i are the apprentices. We are learning some incredible stuff and loving every minute of all of this labor.
Looking from the roll door to the apt.
Looking west from inside the apt.
This will go in the apt.
Some assembly required.
Trimming out some drawers.
This step (framing) has been a slow train coming but we are beginning to pick up momentum, with much thanks to Manny and his crew. It is amazing how fast things can get accomplished when two guys who actually know this trade start working. As you can tell from our last post we did build a wall (upstairs) ourselves but we had to take it back down because we missed some stuff, well turns out we missed a lot of stuff… So like i said, i feel like we are hitting our stride—the slow train is picking up speed, now we are just going to hang on. Enjoy the pics…
The first two here are from a week ago (Monday, May 17th)…
done with this wall!
at least one side...
This is what started happening today, but if you noticed in the last pics that we already had the stringers marked and cut.
They were laughing at how crooked our cuts were...
These walls aren't coming down...again...
We forgot the OSB on the back of the corners as you can see but we decided that we were going to just stiffen these two walls up a different way.
Looks way cooler than before...
So one of the reasons that we didn’t get too much work done this last week is because our friend Ashley came down from St. Louis and we took her to San Antonio and just had a fun week with her here. But yesterday her and Ej got a little bored i guess and wanted to work on the house at 6pm, so we found something for them to do—that they couldn’t easily mess up. We let them seal the windows and floor plates with expanding foam. How did that go you ask? Well, the picture below is of Ej’s first and last window, YoYo took over after that one and finished the windows and to Ej’s credit she did the floor and they actually did a great job. Thanks for that Yo and for being our only St. Louis friend that makes consistent trips down here to see us, you’re the best and we can’t wait till we actually have a guest room for you to be comfortable in!
We like to say that the window threw up.
Moving on to the other building project we have going on, this Sunday marked 23, yes 23 weeks and i have pics of that house too—Ej and child. Just so you know the pic is actually them at 22 weeks.
This is Ej right at 5 months or 22 weeks...