The Nelson's House page

• Mother's day
• After the house has been staked out. You can barely see one of the stakes.
• Groundbreaking!
• Footers have been poured and the first course of foam blocks are in place.
• Three courses of foam blocks.
• Four courses of foam blocks. The window bucks are in place. You can barely see the blue metal braces inside the foundation.
• Five courses, starting on the sixth.
• All six courses, plus some of the external bracing.
• Hard to tell, but the concrete has been poured.
• All the bracing has been removed.
• You can see the parging, on the morning we poured the slab.
• West and south walls raised.
• All four walls raised, plus blocks for garage are delivered.
• Entryway walls are going up, plus garage foundation is built.
• Entryway plywood is up, plus west wall of garage is framed.
• West wall of garage has plywood.
• North wall of garage has plywood plus east wall is partially framed.
• Garage door header is up, plus east wall has plywood.
• Truss-raising.
• Garage trusses in place
• Entire east roof framed out.
• Plywood on roof.
• Loft partially framed out.
• Loft framed and roofed, tar-paper on roof.
• Metal roof on, some Tyvek on.
• Siding on.

• Mother's Day
• Groundbreaking
• Footers poured, moving lots of rocks
• Block City
• Starting to look somewhat house-like
• Wrestling a bucking python
• Pink floor
• A view from the south-east
• The Classic Outdoor Wood Boiler
• Looking towards the center of the house at what will be the base of the spiral stairs to the loft.
• Kitchen cabinets going in
• Tile floor in kitchen going in
• Inside the kitchen looking towards dining room
• Fridge, stove, and microwave
• John's nifty-snifty swing-out shelves for corner cabinets (and above is an appliance garage with roll-top door)

• Brian: "Hey, it's not me that smells like that!"
• You can see the rain wetting the floor.
• "The gang"
• The "decorator" colors clash just a bit, eh?
• Child labor!
• Brent puts Jeff through his paces.
• Stan does the "concrete shuffle"