So much progress!

We visited the site today and holy jeez have they made some progress! Everyone told us the framing would go fast, but given our previous experience we expected to see maybe the first floor to be framed, but definitely nothing more. We were super excited to be wrong! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. 

Master bedroom and future awesome bathtub!

Master bedroom (right), master closet & bathroom (left)

Master closet (the spray painted wall will be removed and the doorway in front will be closed in)

Master bathroom - bathtub (left), water closet (right)

Bonus Room

Upstairs hallway, guestrooms on both sides in rear, center area is open to foyer

Guest Room

Another Guest Room

living room with fireplace

fireplace, I think it will be moved into the room somewhat due to a skinny lot

Kitchen (garage door is to the right)

Inside kitchen overlooking living room

door (with arch) out of kitchen into hallway, stairs (left)

study

dining room, kitchen in background on right

media room (it's so dark! Movies will be awesome!)

Exterior

Rear of house from basement level

Right side of house, that black stuff is waterproofing, the fireplace will probably be pushed into the house some

Stairs down from 2nd floor

laundry room on 2nd floor

upstairs guest bathroom

living room

living room

living room and stairs to 2nd floor and basement

Stairs, foyer, kitchen, dining room in rear right

Kitchen again

door to garage

windows, doors, and shower stuff waiting to be installed

A shot from the corner of the street

Sorry they aren't in any logical order, but hopefully you see how awesome it is and how quickly it's coming along!

And finally, this expression of happiness: 

Framing Begins!

Our weekly visit proved to be pretty exciting! The basement has been framed or at least mostly framed. Here are the pictures:

Front porch (silver area), Crane (right corner), and the top of the basement framing (rear)

Front Porch (silver area), Garage (left rear), Extra wood

The exterior of the basement, door is on the far side of the plywood wall

Left side of Rec Room and Door to backyard (left rear)

Left side of rec room and stairway/closet area (right side)

Stairway/Closet area (left) & entry into media room (back)

Looking through doorway into media room

Utility/storage room area

Bar area in the Rec Room (Front where pipe is in ground) & utility room (rear with pipe in wall)

 Google+ is so cool it stitched together a panorama of the basement as viewed from the door to the backyard. From left to right you see, the Rec Room (where the camera is standing), the stairway area, the media room isn't really visible because it's behind the stairs, the utility room in the back corner (center of picture), the bar area where the pipe is sticking up out of the ground, and back in the Rec room. That description probably didn't help since it just looks like a bunch of wood laying around in this picture, but I tried.

Stitched Panorama taken from back door

 We are pretty excited about the visible progress and hope that everything will be smooth (and fast) sailing from here. Our only concern this week was that our neighbors might be pretty upset (we would be) about the giant mess the builders have left on our lot and that they have allowed to spill out into the road. You may not be able to tell from this picture, but one full lane is taken up by the wood and it doesn't help that it was apparently just too much effort to stack that wood in an orderly fashion before taking off for the weekend. Here's some pictures of the mess that can't be making us any friends!

The wood spilling into the street, our lot begins about where the dumpster is sitting.

View of our lot from the street

All in all it's exciting and we can't wait to see what gets accomplished this week!

Slabberific!

Our weekly visit on Friday revealed a shiny new slab in the basement and for the garage. Unfortunately, our PM overpromised again and told us we would have framing as well, which didn't happen. We're slowly learning to expect less than the PM expects to accomplish each week in order to avoid disappointment. Hopefully, framing began today (Monday), but it was pretty overcast with a light drizzle all day, so we aren't holding out much hope that any work got done. Hopefully, we will have a framed house by this weekend!

In the meantime, here are the most recent pictures.

Until next week, keep your fingers crossed that we get an offer on our current home and enjoy this crazy little guy.