Footprint

We can now see the footprint of the entire house.  

The foundation for the sunroom, kitchen, pantry, mudroom and laundry room is done.  The basement isn't under any of those rooms.

Front of the house minus the garage and breezeway.

The breezeway.  I'm standing in the garage looking at the breezeway.  The blocks are about waist high now but that is the level the floor will be when its finished.  In some of the previous drawings the breezeway was going to be quite a bit longer but I think I'm really going to like the size of it now.  There will be a porch on the back of it with a door to the outside.  Its going to be the only access to the backyard from the main level.  The big back patio off the living room and dining room will not have ground access so the porch off the breezeway will get lots of use.  If I can't make Spatz into a complete indoor cat, this is where she will come and go, I hope.

The back of the house from the garage side.  The garage doors will be back here so this is kind of the front of the garage.  Brad really wanted the garage doors to be at the back of the house but I didn't really care.  Now I love the idea!

The foundation for the sunroom is to the left.  Its going to be quite a ways off the ground so Paul is going to make a small storage room under it.

We'll be happy to get those two doors put up so we can lock things in the safe rooms instead of hauling it all back and forth.

No changing the bathrooms and bar now.  The plumbing is in place. 

The four squares of concrete on the ground are the foundation for the main level porch posts.

I found this device in the creek with a hose leading up to the house.  I wish we had one of these so I could burn some brush piles and feel safe about it.

Paul wants to wait a couple weeks to fix the driveway.  So I guess we'll be bringing the truck for a while.  We had to drive my car into the field to get around this and it isn't really made for that kind of thing.  You can see to the right of the drive way where they had to dig a four foot trench from the road to the new green box mentioned here.


The huge mess of mud and rocks and blocks and string and boards and plastic and Skoal cans and whatever else is up around the house is driving me a little crazy.  But the driveway looking like this just kills me.  It looked so good this summer.  

Its all in the details - Wish List

I may or may not know what our countertops will look like or what the basement floor will be or even what color to paint the master bedroom.....

But I know I want these boots to be situated perfectly in my mudroom.

And if I get them in a 6.5 I could even wear them from time-to-time.

Electricity

We have electricity at Coppercreek!

And more rocks because of it.

We were going to have to pay to run the electricity from the road to the house but the nice NAEC man said they would run it for us if we poured a small concrete pad closer to the house.  So we did and saved a lot of money by doing it that way.  It means the big green box is closer to the house but we can plant something around with all the money we saved!  While they were digging the line they, of course, hit a lot more rocks.  Just what we needed. 

Score!

For several months I've been looking for a LARGE window that I can use as a door to the study.  I look every time we go antiquing and haven't found anything even close.   I have found it on eBay a couple of times for around $300-$400, which wasn't completely unreasonable, but they were always somewhere close to Cleveland with no shipping option.  Driving a large window back from Cleveland did seem unreasonable.  So I figured that, worse case, we could have our builder or cabinet maker build something that would work.  Of course, where's the charm in that??

WELL....a couple weeks ago Brad and I went to two antique stores my friend Karey told me about in North Little Rock.  One had kind of fancy things in it so we didn't really find anything.  The other one was where we struck gold!  We found the window and it was only $80!  YAY!!!  Its not quite as big as we need it to be (its only 6'X4.5') but I think our cabinet guy can work on it so it will be the right size.  Unfortunately, we didn't get a photo of it before we wrapped it up to move it.

We met a super nice lady at the mall named Geri.  She has a booth there and is really the sweetest person. She helped us with the window and as we were talking to her, she showed us an old door that she had.  It was marked $420 but she gave it to us for $250!  We didn't even ask!  She's just that nice.  She also sold me a drying rack for half price and a sled for 60% off!

Here's the door.  We have some ideas in mind for this but more than likely we will use it as the coffee table in the formal living room.  I think it will mix perfectly with the dark gray velvet sofa I have picked out for that room!

I really wanted this crate lid (which was not in Geri's booth) but I thought it was too expensive.  And I wasn't completely sure of what I would do with it.  Maybe I'll find one cheaper someday....

Brad and I both really liked this poster!  But it was expensive.  I've been interested in British History since college when I took 5 semesters of it.   This was from 1914 and even though I'm more interested in WWII, I still thought it was cool.  Maybe we'll find something similar at a better price if we keep looking.