Building A Farmhouse - Our Custom Home Construction

  They poured the concrete into the forms early last week and took them off within a day. They then came back and cleaned up the job site and let the concrete cure for the rest of the week. I love the view here facing that sunset! While we were waiting for the concrete to cure we met with our builder and the distributor that they use for their windows and exterior doors. They had bid out the windows based on the plans and we were meeting to go over everything and clarify questions. Before the meeting I reviewed the plans and compared it to the bid and found that they had missed one of windows in a guest bathroom and the bid had mentioned that two windows shown on the elevation plans were not on the actual floor plans and so we had to be pretty thorough. They had the windows drawn in as casement windows but in my mind I had always imagined single hung windows. I didn't know what these were called but I visited the  Anderson Windows website  and as I looked around I found o...

  Well, spring is coming, we have figured out our financing situation and we are moving forward. We plan on starting excavation in the next 2-3 weeks!  We met with our builder to choose some of the exterior colors and such to submit to our HOA for approval before we start the building process. We colored our plans to try and get a feel for what it may look like.  The house will have areas of stucco and board and batten siding with brick accents and stained wood posts on the porch.  Color of the stucco is Sherwin Williams - Alabaster White We had fun trying to pick a color for our brick. General Shale has a ton of options but you have to double check to make sure the brick you like is manufactured at a plant close to where you live or the shipping costs can be REALLY high. I think they also have stone if that's the look you're going for. We are going with the Cambridge 6060 because we like that its red but that it has variation.  We are planning on staining the...