walls raised – Farm and Finery

This weekend my friend from middle school and high school, Matthew, came for a short weekend visit. Although I had just visited with Matthew a few weeks ago at a mutual friend’s wedding, it was great to have more time to catch up. And to show him our home site!

master bedroom far wall with French Doors
master bedroom wall with two windows
master bedroom fireplace with two windows
master bathroom shower stall
master bathroom water closet
master bathroom – where the tub will go
small library where John will have an office space

Some things we noticed right away is that the master bedroom and bathroom was fully framed out (above). Yay!

We also had our first cocktail with company on the porch too! Picture by Matthew.

After walking around the property a bit, we took Matthew on a tour of the house. And the windows are all framed out now (except the kitchen windows for some reason).

Looking into the kitchen – the only room that doesn’t have the windows fully framed out

While visiting the house, Matthew took pictures to send to his mom so she could know what her guest room looks like. 😂

The bracing is up so they can begin to frame out the roof next.

One comment Matthew made (other than, “this does not suck” – praise indeed Matthew), was that he thought house guests would feel like they are at a resort. I think that would be great! That has been part of our goal – we want the house to be very comfortable both for us and for friends and family when they visit.

At Monument Hill on Sunday – another great view!

We love having friends visit – our home is designed for entertaining – and we look forward to other friends and family coming to see our progress as the home builder continues.

Hugs, Libby

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

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

Tag: walls raised

Matthew Visits Texas

Walls going up!