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    Another new house

    Hi all,
    I have made a few posts in other sections, and have enjoyed all the posts i have read on different subjects on this board. My wife and I bought 4 1/2 acres in the country and started building our dream home this month, I have noticed most post are geared at do it yourselfers, we have done major projects in our old house, but have decided to leave this project to the pros. Our builder is a dear friend of ours and is building us a custom house at spec price.
    The building has started and i will try to post pics as progress goes.

    Thanks,
    Brent

    Sorry about the first pics in this post i try to shrink the size do it right .

    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258...%202%20168.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258...%202%20170.jpg


    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258...%202%20180.jpg


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    Re: Another new house

    Keep the photos coming!

    You may want to fill out your profile so we at least know where you are located.
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    Re: Another new house

    Thanks Dave,
    I forgot about the profile.

    I should give some info about our project, Our house will be a single story ranch 1758 sq ft, 9ft basement, 600 ft plus drive [img]/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] and a small pond in front of the house. This has been going on for 3 weeks now, I had trouble with posting pics, can i post them as url or img or do they have to be a attachment?
    here our some more pics at a smaller size.

    Thanks
    Brent




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    Re: Another new house

    Hi Brent and welcome to CBN! Where in SW Michigan? That consumers concrete truck looks familiar, we used them for some footings last summer. We built in Edwardsburg a couple years back.

    Have fun and keep the pics coming [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
    Rob

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    Re: Another new house

    Thanks Rob,
    We are in the Kalamazoo area, and we are having fun! It is nice being so involved in the the process, our last house we built was a spec house and we did not have much input until it was almost done, this time we are as involved as much as the GC.

    Brent

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    Re: Another new house

    Sounds much like us. Our first house was a typical subdivision house built by a typical large builder. We tried to be involved but they just worked around us.

    This time around we used a much smaller, custom builder. Got to know them and all the subs very well and were very intimate with the whole process. Much more satisfying as I'm sure you'll find out.

    K-zoo is a nice area. I take 131 and 94 to Detroit occasionally and we've done a couple day trips up that way just for fun. Used to be a large antique/architectural salvage place downtown but I think they went purely internet now. It's been a couple of years [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
    Rob

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    Re: Another new house

    here are some pics of the basement with the beam in,and pics of retaining walls, sorry about the previous post with pics as img, did not think about download times with folks with dialup, i will post as url's.

    Brent

    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic5.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic6.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic7.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic8.jpg

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    Re: Another new house

    The past few weeks have been flying, the framers are very good and i can hardly keep up with the pics, they told me it will slow down soon once the shell is up.
    some pics of foor joist ,decking and wall frameing.

    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic9.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic10a.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic11a.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic12.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic14..jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic15.jpg

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    Re: Another new house

    They are sure right Brent, it will slow down considerably after the framing is up. In building ours Vickie would come home from work and be amazed at how much I got done that day. When I started on the siding it seemed so slow even I wondered if I had even worked that day. Then 1 day the rockers will come in and it will seem like you are almost done then the trim will seem to take forever. Keep up to pics, I love to see work that I didn't have to do. Later, Nat

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    Re: Another new house

    Thanks Nat,

    I have to agree on watching somebody else doing the work.
    Pics old house basement project: http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/Old1.jpg
    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/old2.jpg
    I know with our old house I spent almost a year finishing 1300 sq ft of our basement , after working all night on the graveyard shift at my job. So it is kinda of nice sitting back and enjoy the process.

    The guys are doing the inside walls and our really going to town.

    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic16.jpg Front entry.

    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic17.jpg front bedrooms & bath


    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic18.jpg Garage entry , laundry room and powder room.

    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic19.jpg Greatroom view of pond.

    http://webpages.charter.net/bone5258/pic21.jpg View of drive.

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