Logs, Insulation, and Sheetrock

So much has been happening at the house lately. I really need to take lessons from my mom of how to update the blog more often :)

Logs were delivered all the way from Michigan on Feb 7th. The delivery guy got to town early and had to spend the night at Days Inn and arrived at our house the next day bright and early. Nick and I were so excited that the logs had arrived, we just had to go take a look at Days Inn at 11 pm just to see the truck with OUR logs!

Once the logs came, I had to go to the paint store and pick on the stain color that I wanted. If any one knows me, I am not the best with decision making so this was not too easy. But only after 1 try, I had the color I wanted!

Nick staining the logs. Lynn and Grandmama Dixie discussing the logs

Some of the trim stained.

The process of putting logs up has begun! (The big bundles hiding the view of the house are more logs)

 

Time for a longer ladder!



Almost there! Thank goodness for the bucket lift!



The very last peice..for the first side of the house



 



One side down, 3 to go!!



On Friday, while Nick and I were staining logs. The AAA insulation came to spray our insulation. The guys had to dress up in alien suits and started spraying. It was pretty amazing how quickly it was done. By the end of the day, our house looked like marshmellows exploded everywhere! We used the foam insulation. After they were all finished, there was a lot of extra foam left over. I wished I would have saved it to make me a new pillow or shoe inserts because the foam is so squishy and soft!

Only after about 10 minutes one side of the house is insulated!

Today, the sheetrockers delievered sheetrock. This truck was stopped on the side of the road while the other truck was in the driveway unloading. I had to stop and snap a quick picture.

Just one of the many bundles of sheet rock

Hopefully, they will begin hanging the sheetrock on Monday.

Congrats!!!!

A quick congratulations to my sis, Amanda and Walker on their engagement tonight!! What a typical Monday night. I guess this means a double wedding for the Mills girls???

Doors and More

On Saturday, Mama, Amanda, and I made a trip to Sasser to visit my aunt at her antique store Alice and Jay's. I could have taken the whole store and put it in the trunk the of car if money and Alice would have allowed me to. Alice had this wonderful little table that kept calling my name. This perfect round table has the perfect place to call home in my soon to be kitchen. All thanks to my amazing aunt and wonderful mama. (Thankfully, Alice is allowing the little table stay at the shop for a little while longer since I have no where to store it for now.) 

The men on the table will not be going with me to the new house. Now, I am thinking that I should bring them to the new house. They would be great for keeping an eye on Kami and Bauer! 

Also, I have not yet posted any pictures of our exterior doors. The doors have been up for a month, I just have not posted any pictures of them yet. 

 French door going onto deck

 A view of inside of French door (not yet finished)

 The side door

 Front Door Outside View-  does not have the finished stain on yet

Front Door from inside

Up and Running Again!

I took a brief vacation from the blogging world, but now I am back to update everyone on the house!

A lot has been done since last post!

During Christmas break, Nick built the back deck

Standing on the deck 

Looking outside through our new french door

The back deck. Railing and a roof will be added on soon. 

We also got in our fireplace! Yes, a real wood burning fireplace! This is one thing in the house that I had to have. A log home without a fireplace isn't really a log home is it? Also, since I grew up with a real fireplace, I wouldn't have it any other way.  

The area around the fireplace will be boxed up and covered in stack rock. Also, I will be inheriting the mantel that is currently hanging above Mama and Daddy's fireplace. The mantel was found many years ago in the old tobacco barns at Meme and Grandaddy's farm and I love it! 

 As soon as Nick and Mr. Chuck got the fireplace installed they started a fire (the first of many)

The master bathtub and extra bathroom bath/shower have also arrived. You may be thinking that we are no were near ready to install a bathtub yet. The tub cannot fit through the door openings, so it has to go though the wall!

My 6ftx4ft tub with jets! 

I blame me having to have this tub on my mom. She taught me that soaking in hot bubble bath is a must for a princess 

 The tub/shower for the 2nd bathroom. 

We love to find the best deals and hunt on Craigslist to see what we can find. We were hunting for a spiral staircase. I really wanted a black staircase with wooden stairs. We searched the internet and found many places who has what we wanted, but we still had to check Craigslist just in case. And sure enough, we found a staircase for a bargain! But with every bargain, they need a little TLC to make them perfect. 

The metal for the staircase was originally white, but thankfully we know a real good painter that was able to fix that real quick. The stairs and handrail is beautiful oak wood, and with a little cleaning up, they will look good as new! 

A view looking down.

The railing painted black with no stairs 

Don't get dizzy! 

As I said before, we love bargains! This was the best of the best bargain... FREE. Actually, while still living in Columbus at my apartment we went to take the trash to the dumpster and found this fire pit sitting beside the dump. Two of the side screens were missing, but still a FREE fire pit! So Nick loaded it up and now it has a new home.  Once it was home, Heath, Nick's brother brought two old screens from a old fire pit he had to the shop, and guess what... they fit perfect! I guess we could be called dumpster divers!

Burrrrrrrr

Burr, its cold outside! Luckily, we now have some windows in to block the cold wind from coming inside. After debating on what color to choose from for our windows we finally made the decision, and the right one too!

Being that we are building a log home, I really did not want to go with white windows. So a while back, Nick brought home a sample window that was almond color, but I just wasn't sold on the almond. I really really wanted brown windows. Unfortunately, the brown vinyl windows were way over budget. So after many debates, I told Nick to order white windows. Well, that decision didn't last long. A few days after he had ordered the windows, I asked him if we could get them changed to almond. Thankfully, they were able to make the order change! (I guess I have to admit that Nick wanted to almond color windows all along) So now I get to here "I told you so!"

This past week front windows, basement back windows, and 2 of the small windows were installed. The double windows for the bedrooms should be delivered and installed this week. (Hopefully).



Front windows in the Living Room



Basement windows



Another view of basement windows. There are going to be more windows in the back, they are just covered with house wrap in this picture.



Laundry room window being installed



Inside view of laundry room window. (my photography skills were a little sideways in this picture)

Dormers and Metal

The dormers are up and almost finished and the metal roof is in the process of being up.

Nick has a love/hate relationship with the dormers. We decided very early in the house planning process that our house needed dormers for cosmetic purposes. But as the building process for the dormers has begun, Nick probably wishes that we had not made the decision to have them. Apparently, they are a pain to build! But they look great!







Almost finished!

The metal is almost on the entire roof! The back side of the roof is done, and some of the front. The past two days put a stamper in things. It has rained!


Nick working on the metal



Bauer

Dormers, Porch, Metal, and More!

A lot of progress had been made on the house! The front porch is up with the roof.






Nick being goofy as usual



A look at the unfinished ceiling from standing on the roof. We will have V goove wood for the ceiling on the roof.



An example of the ceiling for the porch