New Framing Pictures

We have some new pictures of framing work. They have finished some new rooms since our last post.

Looking into the laundry room.

The dining room.

Looking out the front door.

Our fancy steps.

View from the street.

Looking into the garage.

View from the patio into the keeping room.

Looking at the kitchen.

Hallway to the living room. We have arches several places throughout the house.

It's Looking Like a House Now

Sorry it's taken so long to get new pictures. It has been a busy week and I wasn't able to get by until today. I was really surprised when I got there, though. The last time I was by the lot, we just had cinderblocks. Now we actually have walls on half the house, and you can tell what it is going to look like. This should take 2 more weeks, providing everything goes as planned and then the roof will be started.

Front of the house.

Our friend Dustin checks out our blog on a regular basis. He asked us to let him know where "his" room was going to be. So Dustin, you're looking at it. And don't worry, he will share it with everyone else who comes to visit us.

This is looking across to where the living room will be.

This is looking at where the dining room will be. The floor isn't elevated here. The green stuff you see is the walls and the opening is for the window. I'm guessing this is the next thing going up.

This is looking into the master bedroom. The view is to the backyard.

This view is from the back corner of the house.

Looking into the garage.

We have a schoolbus in our yard. I have no idea why.

This is the view out of the guest room window.

No work this week

Sorry, no new pictures this week. Framing is (finally) supposed to get started on Monday. They ran over on the other house they were doing, so instead of starting us this week it will be next. In more exciting news, I got to make my first real decision in picking out things for the house today. After work I went to a local building supply store and picked out my windows and doors. I actually was able to get everything I wanted plus upgrade a few things and only come in 74 cents over budget on what I was alloted for those items. Yea!
As for the questions we'd had in the last post, I met with the builder this week and got some answers. The driveway you see in the pictures is going to be our actual driveway. However, that is just a rough estimate of where it is going to be, and he will bring out further from the house. Those are also not our actual steps, just the base for them. Don't worry future visitors we will have nice wide steps. They are also going to do a lot of backfilling around the house, as well as filling in the garage some. So I was happy with all those answers.
Hopefully I'll have some pictures next week.

Questions

Sorry it has taken me so long to post these pictures. I had some problems uploading them, but I was finally successful. The foundation is now complete and sealed at the bottom. Things are starting to take some shape, and David and I have had some questions this week. I don't think that is going to be the permanent placement of our driveway. I think that is just the way they have it now to bring materials in. Also, they are going to be backfilling with dirt around the house. And the front steps will not be that steep and there will not be that many. But we are planning on meeting with our builder this week to be sure about all those things. We'll keep you all updated.