Demolition to Almost-House

Warning:  To read about biking click back to July.  This particular post is not about bikes or anything related to bikes.  Except maybe that driving this project from the beginning was the need to have an actual garage and get our nine bikes (plus bike workshop) out of the living room.

This post is for everyone who has asked, "How's the house coming along?"  

Which would be pretty much everyone we know.

Honestly, I can't thinking of a more boring subject, but here are a few pictures since the first of the year, when the actual build started.   

The tough part, getting it right on paper, took most of 2011.

We are just hoping that the build doesn't take all of 2012.  

December 2011 - August 2012

Move in date - ????

Matt, with Jose, our builder.

Eager to get started wreckin' stuff.

Demolition Day.

Me, with Kathy from next door.

Is it any wonder she keeps her shutters up?

Frank, next door on the other side, supervises daily.

Walls and Trusses

Looks big, doesn't it?

Windows and drywall.

Half wall for the kitchen island.

Too many choices!

But we have to narrow it down to two - inside and outside.

Sky blue.

(Also known as Gin Bottle Blue.)

The old dock and seawall were pretty messed up

after that no-name storm last October.

New seawall.

And unfortunately, also a new swale.

There goes our native vegetation.  :(

Meanwhile indoors...

Decisions, decisions.

"Driftwood" laminate flooring...

cabinets, appliances,

granite...

..."watermelon" pendent lighting.

Anyone recognize Blownfuse without a helmet?

Fans up, and lighting in.  Hooray!

Back outside for some sea grape modification.

Matt having waaay too much fun borrowing the neighbor's chainsaw.

Matt and our builder, Debbie.

Measuring what's left of the sea grape

for native plant requirement.

It's still a mess.

Both front... 

...and back.

But we like to think it has potential.