Little steps - Big reward

There are three season around here. Spring, Summer and Hunting Season.

We continue on with the walls and ceilings. The goal is to have the electrician back to finish his work in March. Until then, we will be working steady on the tongue and groove boards on the walls and ceilings. As you can see below we finished one bedroom. Well, 3 walls and the ceiling.

Sometimes we have to re-adjust our priorities.
It often depends on the weather, but then when hunting season starts. Well, like I said, we hunt.

In preparation for our Spring garden. My husband designed and built these beds. We had a successful crop last year, but we believe we will have better water control with this system. Will let you know.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Resting our weary bones and admiring our kitchen cabinets. We are going to clear coat the wall behind the cabinets before we install them. We are also going to stain the cabinets so they stand out more. It may be a clear coat, if that provides enough color. 

Started ceiling in the master bedroom. These smaller rooms are going fast. I suppose that was the ultimate plan. We did the largest room first, so these seem easy. In planning for the electrician and A/C man in March, we will complete every wall and ceiling to the point they require. Then if we have more time, we will just keep going. The cut outs are going well. 

Had to take time out for Christmas tree project at entry and decorate 9ft tree in the house.

Merry Christmas!

Insulation and Exterior Complete!

We hit a slow patch in our diy build.  But the insulation and building exterior are complete!!

The interior foam insulation was blown in using closed cell around the windows and open cell on the remaining walls and ceiling. The insulation makes a great difference in temperature inside.

The exterior has been completed by Huff Welding. They installed the last  pieces on the porch.

We moved over the swing to the front porch and moved over the fire pit and made a sitting area.

Now the interior building for us begins! We will be installing plywood in the closests and painting them at a later date. A few concrete anchors have been installed and two doorway thresholds removed.

We are in the process of finding the tongue and groove boards for all the walls. Not an easy task when you need 6000sq ft of boards (approx 900 10' boards). Hopefully, we will have that figured out in the next week and the boards on order. Until then we have alot of wall anchors to install and many other little items. 

BTW: We squeezed in a "little" garden to take care of in our "spare" time. Oh, and we have fun doing some wild blackberry pickin'.