Post #7: Framing!

The exterior walls of our new home. This is the front of the house.
An interior view, looking at the back of the house. The great room and its 11-foot ceilings are easily visible (on the right). The window cut-outs frame our wooded view beautifully. To the left of the great room is the windowed breakfast area.
Views from the great room & breakfast area.
Every time we visit our home, little DD6 constructs a home of her own for the workers to see the following morning. If there's scrap wood around, she finds it. We do, however, make sure she doesn't find discarded nails to step on.

It's so exciting to see the house start to take shape. Framing began with the beginnings of our first floor and, as of yesterday, has found itself up to the second floor. It's also fun to see the the early formation of the interior walls, studs echoing the drawn lines on our blueprints (the large blueprints :-)).

We continue to drive by on an almost daily basis. The lovely temporary home we're moving into this weekend is even closer to our new home, so we'll be able to cruise by even more.

Our temporary home will house us for approximately four months. To further prove how family-like R&H is, upon hearing that our current home sold so fast (have I mentioned that our Realtors, Murphy & Associates Real Estate, sold our house in FOUR days?!?), Linda & Joyce worked hard to secure us a vacant, existing R&H property to move into while we wait for our new one to be completed.

The home is approximately the same size as what we moved from and it oozes R&H quality and style. The community is quaint and safe, and even has a swimming pool that we can use. What's not to like?!? Anyway, we realize it's not R&Hs responsibility to take care of us like this. It's just one of the things that proves we made the right choice.