First floor, housewares...
Wahoo! We have floor!
This was a very overcast day and I apologize for the dim pictures. In fact, about fifteen minutes after I took these pictures, the skies opened up. "Big deal, so what?" you say?
Well, on the way to the property, we drove through Panda Express, and after I took the pictures, we sat down in two chairs at a small folding table to eat our dinner. Let's see... five minutes to get the chairs and table out of the car and set up in what will be our new dining room (where else would we eat?). Five minutes to get the bags from Panda Express opened and distributed. Four minutes to ask our future neighbor, Kelly (who walked over to say hi), if she would like to join us. One minute of actually starting to dig in... yup, that's about fifteen minutes!
I don't know if the pictures convey the same impression, but just looking at the slab, it seems way to small to fit the rooms that we know are going to be in this house.
This picture is from the furthest corner of the garage. If you click on it and look at the larger picture, you can see the chairs and table in which we are about to take a bath.
!!!FLASH UPDATE!!!
We were back up at the property a few days after we took the above pictures. Two changes had occurred. The water meter had been installed (only a month after the water district told us it would take three weeks at the absolute maximum). And some of the roof trusses had been delivered. The neighbors told us the truck delivering the roof pieces got stuck and it took the neighbors four hours to help dig them out. We're going to move in already in debt to all our wonderful neighbors.
We were at the property again so that Donna, armed with a tape measure, could prove to me that the slab was way too small for the house they were supposed to be building us.
"This extension to the family room is supposed to be ten feet and it's only... umm, okay that is ten feet. But look over here, from that wall to here is supposed to be twenty feet. Hold that end. See! What did I tell you? Hmm, twenty feet. Oh shut up! C'mon Duchess! We're going home!"
posted by David @ 4:31 PM
3 Comments:
Yes, slabs look small. When the studs go up it will look a little bigger, but still not big enough. Then, they put up the drywall, and you think, "Hey... It still looks too small."
Until you put furniture in it, it will look too small.
Oh hey, this is Bruce. The only one in the family to actually have a house built from dirt. Other than mom and dad back in Roslyn and Furlong.
Andrea here - can't get Mom to come from watching THE CLOSER and look at the pics yet - but what is that gray wet stuff? It looks...wet. Do you get RAIN up there?
Bruce may be the only one to have a house built from dirt - but Alyssa is probably the only one whose home had a floor of dirt. Until Donna the carpenter fixed it up. Wait. Bruce had a house built from dirt? As in - mud walls? Like a snow fort, but a dirt fort instead?
I thought, David's crazy, that doesn't look small - and then you blow up the pictures and see the scale of the chars and think, hmmm - that DOES look small... Good thing I have stood in a model home and I know the true size :-)
Wait. Is Bruce saying that we lived in a mud hut in Roslyn and Furlong? But I remember real walls!
Okay, FINE. I didn't have a house built FROM DIRT. HA HA, VERY FUNNY. I had houses built UP from the dirt (while I was watching). Rancho Santa Margarita, CA and Gilbert, AZ. They were both made of wood (with a concrete base, similar to D&D's), but shaped different.
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