Things are coming together. Jason and his dad worked crazy hours and primed and painted the whole place, walls & ceilings! That was so much hard work - had we known how hard it is to get to some of these high ceilings in the staircase... I am not sure our house design would look the same . We have a crew working on the exterior panelling - the stucco work has already been finished. The tile setter is working on the showers, our electrician (read: Barbara) ha...

Another month has passed since our last entry and things are moving along nicely. The concrete floors have been finished on all three levels and are now covered for protection. All walls/ceilings have been primed and the garage/workshop have even been painted. Jason bought a second-hand kitchen and has the cabinetry installed in the workshop, ready to move stuff from our old garage over to the new house. He has also already built a big storage shelf in the ...

A lot has happened since our last blog entry. We've been working on wiring the house almost day and night. I spent my last 10 hours pigtailing 60+plugs the day before Sophie was born. The electrical team Kubke/Wyrsch passed the City Inspection without a hitch - we were extremely pumped about that. While we spent a few weeks hanging out with a newborn, we had sound and R-value insulation put in and the drywallers were at work. My dad (aka Grossaetti) arrived at t...

We've spent the past 10 out of 11 days at the house wiring plugs, lights, exterior blinds, etc. Mostly we were off to a slow start at 10am in the morning but could still be found working with headlamps and garage sale lamps past 6pm. This is such different work from anything we've done in the past few years that my head keeps spinning at night and I DREAM of wiring plugs :-). We think we'll need another few days to get it all done and be ready for the plumbing, v...

The house is locked up, all the windows and doors are in. We've finally installed the five exterior blinds for the large SW facing windows. That was quite the undertaking with us having to design and order custom metal window sills and our builder never having worked with these blinds before. I will post some pictures soon. Most of the interior framing is done, so is the rough-in plumbing, the ventilation has been installed and work is currently done on putting ...