A lot has happened since our last post in mid-January but we haven’t taken the time to write about any of it. Our contractor finished up his work in February and we rushed to get the house settled enough to have a little 1st birthday party for Adelyn on March 9th. Since then, the pace [...]
When we started this blog, Amy and I had grand plans of posting daily (or at least weekly) updates about the progress on our addition. Well, the contractors are almost done and we’ve barely been able to get a post in each month. There are so many things we wish we could share here but [...]
No, no, actually it’s been a pretty mild winter so far in Atlanta. “But the fire is so delightful!” Well, we have a fireplace on the 1st floor but it’s been buried behind our kitchen cabinet boxes for a while now and even if it wasn’t, it needs repair before we can have a fire [...]
The house is looking all nice and pretty on the outside, so all the neighbors are convinced the project is done. Well, except that one lady who stopped by to politely ask the contractor what was up with the plywood front and center. Guess the paint didn’t disguise it. In case you were wondering too, [...]
After tallying up the comments on our last post, the replies on Twitter and the comments on Facebook, it seemed that option 1, 2 and 3 were all pretty close. There were definitely things we liked about all 5 of the color schemes but we decided to go with Option #1, “Anonymous” as the house [...]
Through the process of working with an architect and now several weeks of building, we’ve had lots of big and small decisions along the way. Do we want this window higher or lower? Should the trim be decorative or flat? Should the garage door have glass panels or not? There are a ton of factors [...]
Have you ever wondered how construction crews get heavy windows and stacks of siding up to the third floor? Neither had I, but I got the answer (at least for our project) as I got home from work on Thursday. The device you see in the short clip below is called a pump jack or [...]
Everyone I’ve talked to about building and additions has told me that the framing stage is always the most exciting. Well, this was one unbelievably exciting week of progress. Framing began on Monday and every evening when I got home from work, our house looked completely different. I posted a few pictures each day on [...]
Things are looking quite a bit different around here than they did just 2½ weeks ago. The old block wall was removed, as was about 2 tons of dirt. A new footing was poured, then a new 8″ concrete wall was poured on top. The new wall had waterproofing applied and a french drain installed [...]
As promised, things look quite a bit different around here than they did in my post from Wednesday. Ok, well, from the bottom of the driveway, it actually kinda looks the same except that they moved the porta-potty to the side of the driveway. I guess that’s an improvement. All the blocks that were holding [...]