It is really starting to come along, isn't it! You can see on the first shot the hip style roof line - which was a mistake, but a good mistake. The original plans showed a hip roof (flat angle) versus a gable (pointed top) but then over time it was modified to be a gable style. The framers worked off of a an old set and so I got the phone call that day that the roof had been framed incorrectly, but that I may not mind the way it looked. The framers were ready to re-do the roof when I gathered my "housing committee" - my awesome neighbors, who helped me to determine that this was a great mistake and that the gable style would work just fine with the overall design. So, no demo was necessary and work continued. Ok, part of me may have decided to stick with the gable just so that we didn't have to take steps backward! No really, it looks great!

The front foyer and porch are taking shape. The family room addition on the back is really starting to look big -- it has been looking small to me just standing on the concrete slad trying hard to visualize what it would look like with a roof and walls, furniture and life! I am so bad at visualizing and it can be very frustrating at times, so I am staying calm and really putting a lot of faith in the architect and the process, sometimes to the frustration of others. They are working on researching if the back cable and power lines that currently come in to the back of the property above ground and connect to the roof, if they can be relocated underground, and ultimately have that back pole removed because I am the last house on the street that it services. The neighbors would also like to see it removed; really there is no part of it that is pretty and its main function seems to be a fireworks display when squirrels and birds wander way too far into its components -- and BOOM!