Starting fresh with this yard.
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Showing posts with label MW House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MW House. Show all posts
May 14, 2014
Cutting the tree
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| Future Eames Stool? |
The story below the fold
Finding the Lot
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| The Empty Lot |
This is pretty much the first thing someone says to us when we
tell them about the house we are building.
This is our story, below the fold
This is our story, below the fold
Post Post
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| I may need a truck |
"First Post"!
Or second post, depending on how you look at it.
This is the first piece of lumber arriving at the job site - the new temporary power pole (post).
Sometimes a GC gets to watch others do the work, sometimes a GC is raising eyebrows at the lumber yard.
Thanks to Lisa and Dan for helping to stand this 20 foot 6x6 upright.
The MW House
The shoe is on the other foot.
We (Hunter and Lisa) are about to start building our own
home.
After years of sitting at the table as “the architects”,
working with other people to realize their ideal built environments, we are now
also “the clients”.
It has been an interesting perspective change for us, and an
informative one.
Enough so that we have decided to share our experiences in
the hopes that others find it interesting, or even better, useful.
To further mix things up, we are acting as general
contractor for the construction of this house ourselves – affording yet another
perspective change. We have just started this part of the adventure, and
already are feeling appreciation for those professionals who we usually rely on
to do this work.
Like many of you out there who decide to build, we are
excited and nervous in equal measure.
We’d like to think that after 20 years of architectural
experience each, combined with a good bit of swinging hammers and saws on
construction sites, would have prepared us for this to go smoothly. We shall see.
And we’d like you to join us and follow along.
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