No, this is not our color selection!

Six days and counting until closing on our house in Alpharetta! I almost took a photo of the "Under Contract" sign out front - what a relief it will be to have this step completed. We did not anticipate when we started this project early in 2006 how dismal the real estate market would become -- good thing, because we probably would have shelved the whole idea. So, we took a break from packing and schlepping boxes on Sunday, 8/19 to see what progress had been made in the last two weeks. The porch roof is on and shingled and the porch decking is also in place. The entire exterior is covered with tar paper (note to Janet: this is GREEN) and ready for siding. Inside the HVAC is roughed in and we are only an inspection away from beginning insulation and dry wall.




Kate & Reggie and me & Riley on the corner of the porch - there was actually a breeze here!





We took lots more pictures that I'm sure would interest no one but us, but which document the location of pipes, wiring, etc - guess it's good to know what is where behind the walls. This photo I kind of liked, though - even if the intent was only to photograph the shingles and the ridge vent.

August and the Porch

Since the porch was one of my "must have" features in building a house, I was excited to see it beginning to take shape. This past Sunday, on a sweltering day, the temperature at our house was 5 degress cooler than down on Highway 11. (but it was still hot!)




Again, the porch from inside the house...



Here's a better photo of this week's note from Scott: "To all people on job site: No smoking in house. No mud in house. Clean up behind yourself. Take trash to trash pile. Take your bottles and material scrap out. Thank you, Scott" Sounds like good rules to me - I could do several of them up in counted cross-stitch!



Here is the "bonus" room we created (at Scott's suggestion) in the attic. This is to be John's special retreat - i.e. the planes, trains, & automobiles room. It is bigger than it looks - 12x12. We won't finish this initially, but save it as a project going forward.