What We’ve Been Up To

Once we started living full-time at the ranch, regular life got tired of taking a back seat to the new house and started to demand more attention a little sooner than we thought it should, and it has taken us a little longer to get all those loose ends taken care of. There are plenty …

Quick update, and…that ductwork is gonna be a hard “no.”

157th day of build. (a little over five months) Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, everything pretty much came to a grinding halt this week. A small crew came Wednesday to tear out the front stoop and fix all the mistakes/omissions the framing guys left. We went out the other day and they hadn't even gotten …

Should I blog about major issues as they happen or after they’re resolved?

132nd day of build. I read a post in a forum the other day from someone who is in the just-got-their-lot-don't-quite-have-an-architect phase of building a home, and she wondered why in the world people think building a home is so stressful. There were even some commenters who wrote that their building experiences were all glitter …

Update

It seems as if things are finally moving along. We anticipate that our building permit from Iron County will be approved today, which is a big thing. The process has taken over two weeks from the time we changed builders, which, from what we hear, is a common bottleneck. L.M. took on the task of seeing …

Quick Status Update for 17 March 2017

We've been getting lots of info about bids and whatnot from our builder, and we got an email today saying that Iron County has reviewed our plan for the building permit. There are some changes to make, and some miscommunication to iron out, but our builder wants to meet early next week to present and …

On Deciding Whether to Be In the Festival of Homes: Upon Further Review (plus update)

We thought we had decided that being in the festival was not for us. You can read about it in this post. And we were pretty secure in that position. Until a couple days ago. Our builder emailed us to see if we're still interested in putting the house in the festival, and listed several …