Moving the site

hey folks!

I'm moving our site to a new location.. jonhandhisdog has become overrun with malware and all sorts of suspicious activity. I need to remove the old stuff & clean it all out.

So from now on, our emerald-hills site will be located at:

http://jasonschleifer.com/emerald-hills

enjoy!

Getting closer

We are nearly complete, just a few more details like the roofing material, siding and garage door etc etc.... Jason and I are doing most of the painting so thats a chore each weekend. As per my design Carla our contractor is matching original details from the house like how the ends of the roof peak 'flip' up. And also the brackets etc on the front of the garage are to match the house.

Garage progress

April 4th

More garage progress

Garage around week 3

Our contractor is great, we love her!

Garage still growing

Week 2
Garage is coming along, the framing is going up fast... cant wait to see it complete!

Garage underway - finally

Week 1
After many many months the garage is finally getting built and we are on the way to getting this long drawn out project complete. We have a new contractor (after being taken for a ride by the first one!), and she (a female contractor - wooo hoo) is fantastic.
We are very much looking forward to getting this finished and freeing up some storage space inside the house, and planning the next project.
Once the garage and any painting etc are finished, we will finally be able to tackle the landscaping at the front of the house and also look at getting the main house painted so at least our place wont look like a complete dive from the outside! ;)

Pouring concrete

Pouring concrete
Originally uploaded by Jason Schleifer.

These are going to be the new steps in the back of the house.

You can see the drain in the middle there.. if we block that off, we can almost have a little wading pool back there for the dogs in summer.

spiffy! :)

Pouring concrete

Pouring concrete
Originally uploaded by Jason Schleifer.

Mm... sludgey!

Pouring concrete

Pouring concrete
Originally uploaded by Jason Schleifer.

Steps leading up to the front walkway!

Pouring concrete

Pouring concrete
Originally uploaded by Jason Schleifer.

As you can see, yesterday the concrete was poured at our house! We can almost walk up the steps now.. one more day..

This'll be huge.

We've been having to trudge up our neighbor's house, or up the muddy path for almost the entire winter!

But finally.. finally.. we'll be able to go up our OWN FRONT STEPS!