Showing posts with label kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchen. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Windows and Visitors

If the frequency of the blog posts doesn't tell you, we're pretty busy around here! Jeff works all day on the house, Sandy stays late at work doing paperwork, and Jonathan and Sarah are constantly involved in school stuff. Sometimes our schedules are all so different we hardly see each other for two days!

About two weeks ago we got a visit from Grandpa and his brothers. They wanted to check out the progress. Last time they were here we were still building basement walls. Doesn't that seem like a long time ago?
The guys pose in front of the house. That Caution Construction sign gets a lot of use!

Jeff shows off the ICF construction method.


If you didn't notice in the above pictures, we have almost all the windows in!

The front two bedroom windows upstairs will not be put in for a while, allowing things like drywall to be lifted into the upstairs.

Jeff explains about the Decra metal (but looks like Shingle) roof we'll be putting on.

Taking a tour, things look different with the windows in.

The living room with the windows installed. It is starting to feel like a real room!

Jeff points out the bathroom to his tour group.

The kitchen (viewed from the dinning room) with windows installed.

Looking from the kitchen into the study.

The massive front window, we love it!

Jeff installing windows upstairs.

Putting in the last upstairs windows!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Kitchen Planning

All weekend M and I were thinking about the kitchen design. The crux of the question was where to put the refrigerator. There are only so many places a refrigerator can go, yet we didn't think we liked any of them. So off to 3-D.

D went to the FH chapel and laid out with boxes and tables a life-size model of the kitchen to walk around. I turned to my design software and started rendering the kitchen in 3-D. My models were much nicer to look at but walking through the kitchen was also helpful.

Here are some views of the 3-D kitchens I made. My favorite is on the top, M + D's favorite is on the bottom.