The House Project: Walls Up!

The builder said that the exterior wall framing would be done today. Well, pretty much. The big square is the family room sliding glass door; the rectangle is the kitchen door:


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Here's the east end of the house, with bedroom rooms near the center, the front door and living room on the right:


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Here's my wife looking through the kitchen window. At least if you are standing at the sink, rinsing dishes, you have a great view!


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More detail of the family room. Big windows on either side of the sliding glass door. That's the view we want to look at while talking to friends!


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Here's a view from bedroom two (which I will probably use as an office, and from which I will probably be blogging):


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And another view, facing south:


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Here's the back of the house:


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Here's the front of the house:


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I took the water samples to Alchem Labs in Boise. The coliform bacteria test came back clean; the water is at least not biologically hazardous. We are still waiting on tests for lead, iron, arsenic, and hardness. To my surprise, these take a couple of weeks, I suspect because they send them out somewhere.

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