Amazing House Blog

When I asked Toby what they did yesterday while I was at work he said “It was a pretty slow day”. Yeah, right!!

Here’s the progress at the house… walls are going up. Interior walls down stairs, interior and exterior upstairs. Here we are framing out some of the upstairs walls. Above and below is Toby and Eden framing out a window above the stairwell. And here I am, so beautifully gracing another window above the stairwell… I [...]

Toby and I headed out today to pick up the shower and some wood for exterior (upstairs) siding. On the way, we stopped by the Habitat store to see if there was anything new and got a great haul! We picked up another antique door (this one for our bedroom) for $25, a cast iron [...]

Oh, I forgot… Here are all the bottles that we will be incorporating into the cordwood walls. We’ve put all of them into a big bathtub with soapy water to try to get the labels and dirt off. We mostly have clear, green, yellowish, and blue. I have two red ones that I got at [...]

Toby laid down our first cordwood pieces today! Very Exciting!! Here he is, putting in the first piece!! This is our friend Eden who has started helping us build. She is working with the mortar here. It is a mix hydrated lime, water, and sand, and should be a nice white once it is dry. [...]