Building Update

So, it's been awhile since I've updated.

They finished the back-filling, that seemed to take awhile.

I didn't blog because nothing too exciting was happening.

They poured the basement floor, the front porch and back porch on July 22nd.

Forgot to blog that.

I was pretty excited about my front and back porch!

And now...it looks like this!!!

The framing crew arrived the afternoon of July 28th (Tuesday).
Put in super long days, we're talking working well into the night under flood lights.
And pretty much had it done August 1st (Saturday).
That's a group of hard working Mormon boys right there!!

Everyone keeps asking me, what's next???
I don't really know.
I'm just worried about paint colors and furniture!

Oh and when Tressie saw this, she was ready to go home and pack.
We had to slow her down a little : )

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Basement Walls

Wednesday, June 24th - We have basement walls.

What's it look like?

Here is the front elevation drawing of the house.

Justin and I are both very happy with how the exterior looks.

Truth:  We totally changed house plans at the beginning of this go-round.

We had very nice custom plans drawn, but by the time we cut out most of the exterior rock {due to budget}, I was no longer in love with how it looked.

So, custom plans round two and we love it!

The main thing we like about this design:

It looks like it belongs in the middle of the prairie on a ranch, not on a suburban 40 acre tract.

 

Last week we met with the builder and made exterior selections.

Below you'll see our selections for stucco color, shingles, front door and then one of those colors {or something like them} for the metal roof over the front porch.

Making the decision to redesign our house was a big decision, but a good decision.

We really liked our first set of plans, it was a beautiful house, but when we really stopped and considered our needs, taste and budget, it just didn't work.

Not only did we make some design changes {mostly exterior}, we also cut down on square footage a little to allow room in the budget to keep the interior finishes we were hoping for.

Our builders were awesome {and very patient} to work through the process with us.

Once we made the difficult decision to redesign the house, we were totally at peace, excited and so ready to get started on building our forever home!

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It's happening.

The Golding's are building.

When we moved into the Trailerhood, nearly five years ago, our plan was always to save money up and build a house. Our forever house, on the ranch.

In 2013, we put our plans out for bid.

They came back, and we determined that we needed to wait a little longer and save some more money.

I say that like it was an easy decision to make, or an easy fact to accept.

It wasn't, it was disappointing, but in the end we knew it was the right decision.

After more saving, planning and a lot of prayer, it is finally happening!

We broke ground on our forever home on June 8th.

For those of you that followed my folk's home building journey five years ago, the same builder out of Limon is building ours too.

Here's a timeline of the past two weeks:

Monday, June 8th - The first day of the project, dig day.

The kids certainly enjoyed all of the dirt!

Tuesday, June 9th - The second day of digging and the hole is done!  I LOVE this picture.

Here's a fun one of the kids playing in the dirt.

Monday, June 15th - And we have a road!  "Everything I love is at the end of an old dirt road.  I wouldn't give a nickle to have it paved in gold."

Thursday, June 18th - Concrete footers poured.

 

Monday, June 22nd - Forms ready for the big pour.

Tuesday, June 23rd - We passed four concrete trucks on our way to work this morning! {Let's ignore our filthy windshield!}

So I'll do my best to keep you all updated.

As you can tell, these guys work quickly!

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