Saturday

Two weeks officially.

We put up the remaining interior walls yesterday. It took a little longer than we expected, but we were working on a lot of the custom details. I am really pleased with the shadow box my husband built above the stairs. It will be perfect for housing a picture right as you go down the stairs. Maybe we can eventually add some nice lighting. He also did a great job putting in three off-set boxes along the stairs. I am pleased with his creativity as the supervisors had very limited ideas about the sizes and shapes of the shadow boxes. He was able to add several inches in depth and width. Most people end up with 3inch shelves--what good is that?

We also worked on cutting out the archways. We have one between the dining room and living room, another from the kitchen to the mudroom, and another in the shadow box. I think they will turn out well.

Our trusses are prepped for our roof, which should go on next Saturday. We are on schedule for our original date of Tuesday, but will wait because we will have more light and manpower on Saturday. We have a goal to fly trusses on both our house and the second house on Saturday. The floors went on the second house (I think they finished) yesterday and we have a lot of work to do to meet this deadline. Hopefully we are speeding up as we learn what we are doing. Interior walls take FOREVER, though.

More photos to come soon--once I have my camera battery again.