Avenida Progress

While things are wildly unpredictable in our household lately, it's nice to know (and see) progress is being made on our new house. Sanity is a distant light slowly growing bigger and brighter. Though, I emphasize s l o w l y.

This will pick up sooner than I can imagine, at least that is my bet. Seeing as I have never built a house before, this is just my best guess.

Here is our progress thus far:

Lost cleared and leveled

Foundation lined

Trenched for plumbing

Plumbing! Pipes are visible! 

Crazy as it sounds, these pipes are the first thing put in (beside the already-there dirt) and they are so exciting!

I will be so happy when there is an actual foundation! So go away for a bit, rain. My house needs a floor!

Oh, and just for fun, I took a picture of a spec house in another neighborhood that is the same layout as our house; I then photoshopped in our bay window and our cedar garage door design and added corbels. It is not our brick, stone, paint, or stain, but you get a good idea of what our house will look like. I tend to look at this picture almost everyday.

My computer transformation

Final computer rendering (again, not our brick, stone, etc.) SO PRETTY

In mean time, we are getting our current house ready to list. I am trying very hard to keep things looking as new and clean as possible...very difficult with our 6 month old husky pup. Did I mention sanity being a tiny glimpse of hope far away? 

Life is stressful to say the least, but knowing that I will be in my dream house in a matter of months helps me push forward. Do I have another choice? No, not really. But I could be crying a lot, and I'm not. ;)

Hopefully no more illness, no more dog destruction, and hopefully soon, a quick and flexible buyer. Not too much to ask for, right?

M.LEWIS

Avenida Foundation

Foundation framing!