Hanging Over My Head

You’ve never seen someone this excited to not have walls, and it’s only because I’ve got ceilings! In the bedrooms… The bathrooms… In the kitchen…

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Arrival

On the list of things that terrify me, having a crane full of drywall extending from the driveway past my wood doors into the house

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27 Colors and Counting

In the way of construction we, at this point, may or may not have walls this week. (Read: no chance in hell we have walls

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Warmer Already

I left the house at 8:30 with no insulators in sight, and came back at 1:00 PM to see this much warmer and more air-tight

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A Pivotal Weekend

About three seconds after we got the green light on the rough framing, I had the insulators and drywallers scheduled for installation. I am so

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It Gets Worse

If you thought that we couldn’t find one more spot to dig a hole, pile some dirt, or make a general mess out of our

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Things I’m Thinking About

We’re in the middle of a swirling vortex of snow, insulation, drywall, inspections, wiring, trench digging, and pipe laying. It’s enough to make my head

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