From Approvals to Reality I oscillate between pure excited, pure dread, pure anger, and pure happiness while building this dang house. It is an intense process, and it comes with many surprises – the theme of this week’s surprises: mounting costs. Our house has the right guts: This whole thing started because we want to […]
Things Are Looking Up (Maybe?)
The last three months have been anything but pleasant for Dave and I, but I do believe we are coming out on the other side… at least I hope we are. First – the easiest good news. We found a builder! Amaris Custom Homes is a husband and wife team, Ray and Lolli. Ray does […]
The Depressing Pit Of Home Building
Well, Dave and I fell into the depressing pit of home building. It’s been more bumps and bruises along the past 60 days than happy news. Let me break it down. We went in front of the HPC in March. It is really hard to write about how that went. I don’t want to be doom […]
Grandpa Roy
The stories about Grandpa Roy… He was a character for sure; and I’d like to think my personality and desire for trouble was learnt from him. There was the time he and his fishing buddies gave ~6th grade me a ride home to Roseau. Grandpa insisted on NO FARTING in the car; no dirty jokes; […]
Girl-oh-girl, is the house pretty.
Well, it’s been a busy few months! We have gone from our program (completed over Thanksgiving week) to our Heritage Preservation Committee pre-approval submission (submitted February 16th). I’ll try not to be too verbose and let the pictures speak for themselves, but suffice to say we are off to a nascent start. I love that the design […]
Toddlers are Adorable (Plus a House Update)
The Kid They say to put babies to sleep “drowsy, but awake.” I say do whatever the hell you need to do to get them to sleep. For us, it was rocking her until she was O-U-T and then gingerly placing her in the crib and crossing your fingers that she did not wake up […]
Programming
Apparently the first step in building a house is a thing called “programming.” At least that’s what our architect calls it. Wynne drafted a program and sent it to us right before Thanksgiving break. I’m loving the timing of everything so far. Work and life are busy busy – so getting the program before a […]
