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Walls going up!

On Tuesday we went up to the home site after work and found some of the exterior walls have been put up!!

Holy cow! Walls are going up!

What a difference a day makes! We can finally get a sense of the size of the rooms and how tall 10’ ceilings really are…

Door to nowhere? Actually, it’s from the smallest bathroom out to the pool porch.
Here’s the wall just off our entryway going up!

They really made great progress this week and it was fun to visit the site every day after work or on a lunch break to see the walls going up! As a thank you, I made some lemon poppy seed muffins for the crew.

Lemon poppyseed muffins to say thank you to the framing crew
When I asked Russel if I could take his photo he responded, “it’s up in every post office around here, but sure!”

Now John and I can walk around and really get a sense of the home we have designed! A few notes for those who are curious about our forever home – it is a single story so we don’t have to worry about cooling an upstairs (which can be very expensive in the Texas heat), and it has 10 foot ceilings to make the home more energy efficient during the summer months. Add in the planned ceiling fans in almost every room and the deep covered porches, and you can see how we have thought about the 40+ days of 💯 degree heat we will experience each summer.

Here I am in my future office on November 6th. Yes, I am wearing shorts in November because it was 84 Fahrenheit that day!
Guest bedroom and pantry wall going up.
  • Great room fireplace and built ins
  • Looking into the great room
  • South wall of the great room – opposite the fireplace
  • Small bathroom off the great room
  • Storage behind the great room
  • John in the storage room
More walls ready to go up
Dining room looking into the living room

I finally asked one of the framers why they don’t have the bottoms of the windows framed out. He said they will get all the walls up, make sure they are perfectly square, and then add the lower threshold for the windows. Who knew?

The exterior walls and walls around bathrooms are 2X6 construction while the other interior walls are 2X4.

We’ve had a couple days of rainy, cold weather (well, cold for here), so I’m excited to get back to the site and see what progress has been made. Next comes the roof framing!

As always, thanks for stopping by! Hugs, Libby