While waiting on the weather to allow us to begin the framing process, we had the lumber ordered and ready for pick up when we got ready. We also ordered the trusses, windows and doors.
Finally picked up most of the lumber, October 17th, and drove it into the barn for safe keeping till the rain subsided and things finally dried out over the weekend.
The pictures don't do it justice, it was a lot of lumber. It was amazing to me, that whole trailer held the basic structures of most of the walls to our new home!
October 20th we started on the framing.
Lots of prep-work. We put down house wrap to protect the concrete as it will later be stained.
We are so thankful and grateful for our family and friends, spending the weekend with us and helping to start the framing of the house.
A special moment for us as we took a family picture in the front doorway.
We couldn't have asked for better weather!
With our paying jobs, we are basically weekend warriors, working on this, mostly on the weekends. Our typical "construction job" hours, we hit it hard starting Friday nights, till the sun goes down, Sunday evenings. If we are lucky, the two of us get to spend hours in the evenings working on this during the week. Thanks again to family and friends, we finished framing the outside walls the weekend of October 27th, 2018.
A snapshot of the beautiful sunset Country Boy and I worked under on a nice Tuesday evening.
Weekend Warriors - We are blessed.
A view from the backyard looking up at the back of the living room area/back door.
Framing this wall was a doozie with all the windows. But well worth it for the view!
This was the last outside wall to complete the exterior and end the weekend.
Again, blessed with great weather and great help!
November 2nd, 2018 brought the delivery of our trusses. Had to take down the fence into the pasture for the wide load delivery to bring the materials in.
Our version of "Friday Night Lights" to begin the long weekend of interior framing.
November 2nd - 4th, 2018.
The beginning of the interior walls, starting with the master bathroom on a Friday night.
These little shells are used with a tool to literally shoot nails into the concrete to stabilize the walls.
Master bathroom, closet, and bedroom to end our Saturday.
A little fire to warm up at from time to time.
Sunday, November 4th, 2018 - Starting on the entryway and Drummer Boy's bedroom.
Another productive weekend with beautiful weather. Special thanks to family and friends!
Over 3/4 of the way done with the framing at this point.
Country Boy took off for most of the week, November 6th - 9th, (except to be on-call), to finish up the interior walls and get ready to put the trusses on for the roof.
Had a lot of help, getting a lot done! All the plywood up on the outside walls and more work on the inside walls every day, till the daylight ran out and we physically couldn't do anymore.
I made Country Boy stop to take a "Construction Selfie" with me.
Back to work all the next day, into the night.
I do believe Miss Dally likes her new home. Just hanging out at the front door.
Finished all the outside walls.
Front view.
Back view.
All the inside walls are framed and it is so fun to be able to walk through the house and see it!
I love the view of the half moon in the sky in this picture.
There is not a piece of lumber in this house that my Country Boy didn't touch!
I'm so proud of him and all his hard work.
Next up - Trusses.
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