Building a House

There’s certainly plenty of things to write about tonight. Pretty amazing that I’m finding it difficult to keep up with the blog because I’m at the house so often, but I feel like a chimpanzee with his first taste of cotton candy. I just can’t get enough Read More

This is getting so exciting I’m having a terrible time getting anything non-house/non-quadomated done these days. I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about how to make everything perfect, and by the time I’m in my wheelchair at 7 AM seems like everything Read More

Wow! The last few days have definitely created the most dramatic change/WOW factor of the whole job. Yesterday morning things were looking nice, they were coming together, but it was still feeling like, you know, things were coming along one day at a time. Well, snap out of it Read More

All the sheetrock is hung, the rough-in plumbing complete, and we’re nearing the last few days of drywall before we start brightening everything up with some colorful paint and laying the floors. Dad has been trying to help out as much as he can with the paint and was priming the Read More

Happy New Year’s everyone! What better way to kick off 2011 then by painting the first two rooms in our new house! Check it out! With a shiny fresh coat of white primer. I’ll have to give the credit to my father who was up bright and early at 5:30 AM January 1st so Read More

So I had planned to write a very enthusiastic, holy poo-digity is the house ever looking abso-tutely spanktastic, but I started working on a website tonight and got in the darned worst designers block (that’s when you stare at the screen forever trying to come up with Read More

We had our first major snowstorm of the year and I was right out in the middle of it so that I could enjoy the Monday morning after Christmas with the Michaud boys.  I must be awful dedicated… more like obsessed with this whole house project, because normally when the weather is Read More

The garage is mostly finished, the house warm and somewhat dried out, and the walls ready for some drywall. This week marks the start of the next big step forward with our house as Jerry cracks open the 5 gallon buckets of drywall and starts mudding his way around my bedroom and Read More