Drywalling Endwalls around Windows

September 09:

Now that the foam was in around the windows, we could drywall over them. For some reason, this really made the rooms look different. I love seeing our house transform!

Don scraping the foam to make it even, so they could

hang drywall over it.

Back Door and Window. Doesn't it look nice?

One of the front windows.

Funny!

I just had to put this in. A few weeks ago at work, I was talking to some of my coworkers about my house. One of them told another that it reminded her of Patrick Star's house (from Sponge Bob Square Pants). "You know, like an upside down bowl made out of a rock." I thought that was hilarious! Not being an avid Sponge Bob fan, I didn't know what Patrick's house looked like. I couldn't wait to get home to google search Patrick Star's house.

Any resemblance??? I don't know...Maybe! Our's doesn't open up on the top like his does. I still think it looks like a teddy bear without a head!

Auction Purchases

September 09:

Adam's dad heard about a "construction type" auction in Indy! I guess there were companies that had gone out of business and were selling their leftover stuff. It started at 10am. We got there at about 9am, so we would have time to look at all the stuff they were auctioning off. We didn't end up leaving until 6pm (and that was only because I had to work at 7pm.) The auction was a success. We bought all of our hardwood floors for the upstairs, the corner shower unit for one of the bathrooms upstairs, 2 glass bowl sinks for the master bathroom (my personal favorite purchase of the day), and several tools.

Adam after we won the hardwood floors!

Adam loading the truck up.

I know it is hard to tell in this picture, but this

is the shower base. We left it on the side of the

interstate. While driving on 465, it blew out of

truck. We think it was partially ran over. It

wasn't worth saving. Funny story though, because

when I bought the tub at Lowes, it also fell out of the

truck. I don't think we are able to get something

for one of the bathrooms without it falling out of the

truck. We got such a good deal on the shower, that

even if we have to spend 100 bucks on parts for it, it is

still worth it.

The new hardwood floors upstairs still

in the packaging.

Here is one piece. It is handscraped solid oak!

This is my favorite purchase of the day. We got 2

of these glass bowl sinks. We will put these in the master

bathroom. I love them!

Foam around the Windows

September 09:

This is actually something that we hired someone to do. If you can remember way back last year after we inflated the dome, we hired someone to spray the foam on the inside of the airform. He came back and sprayed around the windows. We could not do this ourselves, because we do not have the equipment to do so. Now our house is completely insulated and the windows don't leak. Now, we should never have a mouse ever get in our house.

Front door.. We will drywall over this foam.

Back door and window.

Lots of cut drywall pieces = Lots of trash

September 09:

While Adam was at work one day, I spent several hours taking all the extra cut up peices of drywall from the different rooms into the truck. Obviously, we could not leave all this for the trash people to pick up, so I had to take a couple loads of this to the local dump. YUK!!! I have a new found respect for people that work in the trash service. That is a job I could never do! I couldn't stand the smell!

First, I would carry the pieces to this location, which is

right by the front door.

Then, I would take it to the truck. There were 2

full truckloads.

More and More Drywall.

September 09:
It didn't take long, just a lot of work. The drywall in the whole house is just about done. Just a few pieces here and there are left to do.

Upstairs bedrooms!

A Long Labor Day Weekend.

September 09:
Labor Day weekend was full of hard "labor." As I worked all weekend (Thurs, Fri, Sat, & Sun nights), Adam and "crew" hung drywall. It is amazing how much the house is transitioning. People keep saying, "It's starting to look like a real house now." Thanks to everyone that helped us this weekend...Mike Veros, Dan Allen, Isaac DeVries, Aaron DeVries, Don DeVries, Bob Euneman. I know I say this a lot, but we really appreciate all the help.

Stairway



Entryway Living Room


Our Bedroom

The 2 Dads & Adam working on the masterbath

Fininshed with the downstairs. This is an upstairs bedroom.

Our First Wall & Ceiling

September 09:

After a good 2 hours of bring drywall inside, Dan Allen and Adam somehow still had some energy leftover to start hanging some drywall. I had to go inside to take a nap because I had to work at 11. When I left home at 10pm to go to work, they were still working. I couldn't believe it! That's dedication!

Our first ceiling...the kitchen!

Our first drywalled room...the kitchen!

The Drywall is Delivered.

September 09:

Since the inspection was "pretty much passed," we could start drywalling. This is something I was actually very excited about, because it would only be a short time before we could really tell a difference in the house. Here are some pictures!

Coming home from work on Thurs. morning, this is what I saw! Wahoo!

Time to drywall.

After cleaning the inside of the dome to make room for the drywall while I was

waiting for Adam to come home, we were ready to bring it inside.

The "Bring the Drywall into the Dome Crew":

Daniel Allen, Mike Johnson, Amy Johnson, Kristi, Dan,

and Bob Euneman (and Adam of course taking the pic)

Kitchen Cabinets

September 2009:

It's official! We have ordered the kitchen cabinets! We bought them at Lowes! I am really excited! We worked with this cabinet designer for a good week or so, to get them exactly how we wanted. It is nice to see a picture of what our kitchen is going to look like. We will have praline colored maple cabinets. If I can figure out how to get that picture on the computer, I will.

First Inspection

August 31, 2009:

The guy from the permit office came to do his 1st inspection on the house (plumbing, electrical, misc.) today. Adam wasn't really expecting to pass on the first try, because no one ever does. It is their job to find something wrong with what we did, so we weren't suprised when there was a few things we had to fix. However, what we had to fix was not bad at all. He even said we were okay to blow the rest of the insulation (around the windows), and to hang drywall everywhere except in one spot (where we had to rearrage some PVC pipes. ). We were so excited about that! Now, we need to get a good team together to help us with the drywall. If anyone would like to help, we sure would appreciate it! We are hoping to start hanging drywall this weekend. (Labor Day Weekend).

Slacking on Pictures

August 09:

I didn't take too many pictures this month, because it is mostly a bunch of little things that we have been working on. These things are harder to notice than "putting up a wall." But they are all equally as important as Adam has been trying to get everything done to get ready for the inspection on August 31st.

Also during this month, Kristi has been shopping for tile and cabinets. We actually designed and picked out our cabinets at Lowes. We wanted to wait until our inspection was done to officially buy the cabinets. He gave us a print-out of what our cabinets will look like. It is very exciting to be able to picture what our kitchen will look like some day. Picking out the cabinets was a lot easier than the tile. She is still working on that.