We're getting there. Most of the light fixtures have been installed and the hardwood floor is going down now. Happy with everything so far!

Dining room chandy. Obviously, the metal frame around it comes off!

Coffered ceilings in the family room

Looking into the kitchen from the family room

Fireplace and built-ins

Master bath counters in, just waiting on glass for the shower and grout grout for the shower floor.

Kitchen cabinets in, just need the drawers!!

I love how the stairs turned out!

Laundry / sewing room

Granite for the perimeter kitchen cabinets

Granite for the island

Jack and Jill shower

First sons shower

some brick up

spiral stairs installed

first sheet of drywall hung

tile shower

Thats all the pics I have for now. We have about 70% of the brick up, all the drywall is done, painting is 50% done ... cabinets in two weeks. We are shooting for late June closing!

I have to thank every single one of you who post on this forum. Your experiences and discussion here have helped us SO MUCH
Thank you
Peg

Front:

Front Zoomed:

Brick Going Up:

Brick:

Walkout Basement:

Stone Arches into Kitchen/Dining Room:

Stone Arches into the Living Room:

ppben - Awesome picture! Where are you?

ppben - Love the product you're using on the outside... that's Zip Sheathing right?

I am very happy with the floors and I'm terrified I'm going to ruin them with the wrong finish choice!! They are 4" white oak.

The breakfast table light is from Pottery Barn.

jln1980-We are building with 3Pillar. Good luck with your build!

ppbenn, I think the house and land looks great. I am curious though what the plan is for gutters and downspout at the circled corner. It doesn't seem like a gutter can be installed how it looks now, but maybe a creative downspout can be fitted.
I had a similar collection "point" in my house and found there is a problem with any kind of significant rain spilling over, even though we ended up dropping one of the end points on one of the gables to at least have a small gutter to collect water.

We are in the tiling stage right now. The master shower is getting waterproofed:

The kid's bath floor and wall tile is almost ready for grout:

And doors are getting hung:

Oh and Harry is 4 months old now and we took him to the tulip festival :)

The rest of our updates can be found on our home building blog (link below).

Graceshan - Harry is just so darn cute...it's fun watching his progress on these threads too :)

The past few weeks we finished geothermal and septic installation, a lot of plumbing/wiring, most of the roof (waiting on stone to finish), and are currently getting exterior work done.

We are still waiting on the the stair treads though to finish up before being able to drywall. They are on enroute as I type, so hopefully we'll got those installed in the next week or so. Looking forward to seeing these as we are doing reclaimed oak flooring so I did the same things for the stairs/railings....cross your fingers for me!

Here is our stone progress as of today. I had a lot of stone issues (sizing, delivery times, etc) and finally I just threw in the towel, told the stone guy to go pick something and don't let it look terrible with the rest of the exterior selections I made. Not sure that was the best thing to do, but I was exhausted. Here's where it is...what do you all think?

The guys got the exterior trim up and have most of it painted...

Here's a close up of painted trim with the siding color. We are doing smooth siding, but I only have the sample in the cedar style.

Here are some interior shots...

foyer

front door

Kitchen

Not sure if the pic will turn out, but here are the reclaimed beams/trim for the family room

my office (finished above the garage)

Andi - the stone looks great to me!

Andi- I think your stone guys did well!!

ohlaches- The plan is to go dark...so nervous. Can you post pictures of yours???

ppbenn - yes, we are doing the entire section w/the porch in stone, and then all around the water table of the house will also be stone. The side door to the left is the mudroom, and that little section will be in an old style log cabin look, and then the rest of the house is in the nichiha smooth siding. I went into this wanting a very old farmhouse look. And, I figure the log cabin section will either look amazing or completly horrendous, and if it's that bad, we'll just replace it with stone. You have an AMAZING lot/view!!

STATS:
Building a modified Frank Betz: Highland Place
4 Bedrooms
4 Bathrooms
Approx 3200 sq ft

I'm trying to move on and focus on the progress made so far.

The first picture is the just-poured footing, with rebar sticking up to connect the basement walls, and the second picture is after I got all of the ICF forms down into the basement, ready to start stacking.

BTW- It has been raining for the last 3 days again- some 'drought'!

Even since I took this last week, the yard has been landscaped and gutters have been put on. Now we're waiting for the shutters and upstairs porch brackets. The supplier ordered the wrong upstairs porch door so it will be replaced. A different supplier ordered the wrong knobs for downstairs so they're being replaced this week. The front door is being stained tomorrow. Electrical is being turned on this week and wood flooring will be delivered to be acclimated.

You can't see a set of double doors to the right that lead to the guest room and bath:

A shot of part of the guest room. There are two more windows on the wall that faces the doors:

Guest bath shot:

Entering the main space from the foyer:

Those window seat cabinets will be painted out:

Pantry:

Wet bar in the middle. To the left is the vestibule area the leads to the half bath, pocket office and laundry. To the right is my husband's den.

Here, I'm standing in the playroom. The yellow is my exercise room, the closed door is the closet across from the stairs and the door next to that is my DD's room. My son's room is across from her room:

Playroom builtins without shelves and doors:

Exercise room:

DD's room:

A view from her room into her brother's LSU purple and gold room:

I can't seem to find the photo of her bathroom. I only have her sink:

DS's bathroom. I can't find his room photo! I love the way his bathroom is coming along!

An old pic to show more of it:

I'm sorry for the tons of photos but I haven't been able to share on here like I wanted to with the build being such a whirlwind and with both kids in two new schools and just with random life things.

babs711... Can you tell me about your hallway ceiling lights? Name/manufacturer/etc?

Tncraft, the upstairs lights are Ballard Designs Eldridge pendant.

cbusmomof3, just found out today it will most likely be mid June instead of the first of June. A few things with suppliers have caused some unforeseen setbacks. Our builder doesn't want to push it so he's being cautious since some of the variable are unknown right now...like the kitchen sink that had to be reordered and will have to be reset this week!! I had a feeling this would happen. We're still ahead of schedule but I wanted to be WAY ahead of schedule!!

babs711-I'm sorry, that stinks. We were originally supposed to be done April 30th, then mid May, and now May 31st, so I know the feeling. Obviously, it's better to do things right, but the delays are so hard.

I'm gonna do one just like it.

cbusmomof3, I have a couple of questions for you. What backsplash tile did you use? I had mine all picked out but ended up needing more than I thought and the ones I picked weren't as mid-range as I'd intended. I just can't bring myself to do it. Plus the lead time is about eight weeks. So I'm back to square one. Also, do you mind sharing information on the lantern in your breakfast area? Our two foyer lanterns were back ordered through the end of may. Now it's mid-June. I'm scared this is going to be a trend. So again, back to square one!! I'm trying to find other options. Thanks so much!

The lantern is from Pottery Barn. It's called the Stanyan Lantern.

The lantern is from Pottery Barn. It's called the Stanyan Lantern.

We have a tentative closing date of July 6 - dry wall is up and finished, and doors/window casings are going in this week. I'll take some photos to share soon.

Lot we picked out

Once lot was cleared we found out that a large hole was there. Structual engineers came out to make sure it wasn't a sink hole(which it wasnt) and we had to write up an addendum so that builder would fill hole to specs of structual engineer and not just try to fill it with anything to get over (if you havn't noticed I don't trust builders).

Hole was about 3ft deep but by engineer's specs wanted it to be dug down to over 6ft to undisturbed earth

Hole was dug down further and footer was poured

This side was blocked up from footer to be even with slab that will be on the lot

foundation ready to be poured

house being framed

Outside framing done

More pics to follow when I get time to upload them. You can follow our blog of our home sell/building progress at the link below:

http://ourhomebuildtn.blogspot.com/

Cbusmomof3, I'm SO SO HAPPY!! I'd been eyeing up the PB Bolton lantern but it was also back ordered about a month ago. My friend works part time at PB kids and offered to check stock on it now since she knew my back order situation with the Troy lanterns. They're back in stock so I cancelled my Troy lanterns. When I called to cancel, they said they were showing them due in at the end of June! First it was end of May, then June 15 and now end of June?! Nope. My friend ordered the Bolton for me as a surprise once I told her I was going tonger them. 40% off!! I saved over $300! I'm thrilled! And they should be here within a week!

Ppben and Laberglund, thank you guys so much!! You know, my son's tile and our master bath floor tile are the two in the house that I'm not sure of. I found them when I was visiting the tile/stone place where I got my kitchen absolute black granite, our marble and where everything was fabricated. They weren't really branded. I'll call and ask.

Yes, my lantern is from PB...Stanyan lantern is the name. The pendants are actually ORB and are the Savoy House 7730 pendants. They are 11" wide and also come in chrome (or polished nickel).

Hope that helps :-)

We are 1 month into our new construction. The roof is almost finished at this point. The small vents were supposed to be on the middle gable, but were installed on the right (wrong area!) side. We actually like it this way, how about you?

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Bookcases and windowseat in library. The seat has shelves in front and storage behind.

Also in the library are cabinets, TV/media space, and more shelves:

Kitchen cabinets are in. There is a spot for cookbooks at the end of the peninsula. Wood will wrap around the peninsula. Stove with vent hood above it goes on the back wall.

Some of the mud/utilty/laundry room cabinets are in:

View of the living area and kitchen from the master bedroom showing the 5" oak floors:

Going on Monday to template the granite and they hope to install that at the end of next week.

Front

Rear