Lisa & Adam Goldberg Deer Hill Blog #12

Hello:

This blog is dedicated to Erin for her persistence in wanting to see the progress in the house and for the cookbook. Thank you for your enthusiasm!!! Also Happy Birthday Bettylou!!!

Well, we just got back from a house visit. Its cold but the french doors are in. I need to take a step back. Since we last blogged our roof is finished, all of the skylights are in, the windows and doors are in and they have begun to side the house. Also, they framed the closet/laundry room ad built the platforms for the upstairs shower and tub. They have also been working hard on the window trim. We have had the electrician in to put in some switches that had to go in before the doors could be installed and the plumber has come by twice to survey the situation and look and plumbing fixtures. He will start next week. The final stair quotes are in and the stairs to the basement should get installed next week. So here come the pictures. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, The guys from Brooks came back and installed our deck. Sorry Paul its getting late and I've had a rough week and its only Wednesday.

1/15/10 - West side of house shingled	1/15/10 - Luis laying shingles	1/15/10 - Colin & Luis rolling out felt paper around the 2 sky lights that are in the master bathroom.	1/15/10 - North side of the garage all shingled.
1/16/10 - Checking out the scene. What happened to my shingles?	1/17/10 - CC watching the progress	1/18/10 - Those 2x10 are real heavy.	1/18/10 - Finishing the trim on the steep roof.
1/18/10 - Raspberry was jealous cause Oz was always in the blog.	1/18/10 - They finished venting the roof and are now putting the felt paper on.	1/18/10 - I cam back from work a few hours later and vallah. The shingles are on.	1/19/10 - The beginnings of our shower wall.
1/19/10 - We have stairs. These are temps but still we do not have to climb a ladder to get to the 2nd flr. Wow.	1/20/10 - Luis installing the 2 sky lights in our closet/laundry room	1/20/10 - 1st view from inside.	1/20/10 - Looking out of the hole for the windows in the breakfast nook.
1/20/10 - The opposite view. Looking in.	1/20/10 - Our windows and doors have arrived.	1/21/10 - 1st window to go in. This is real exciting. This window is above the garage doors.	1/21/10 - The breakfast nook windows. How quickly the look of the house changes.
1/21/10 - The breakfast nook from the inside out.	1/21/10 - The north side and our 70's style windows.	1/21/10 - The interior view of the waterfall windows.	1/21/10 - The waterfalls from the outside. They did all of the windows in 1 day. All in all we have 32 windows.
1/22/10 - In goes the 1st french door.	1/22/10 - Looking good from the outside	1/22/10 - Basement sliders.	1/22/10 - CC looking to get put to work. This cat follows us around like a dog.
1/24/10- I am working hard cleaning up the lot	1/24/10 - A nice view of the breakfast nook and our pile of trash	1/24/10 - Another view of the house. This shows how the deck will wrap around the house.	1/24/10 - A view from our favorite rock.
1/24/10 - A good view of the breakfast nook	1/24/10 - The framing to our master bath.	1/26/10 - The Brooks guys are back to build our porch	1/26/10 - Here is the lull in action. This thing does it all.
1/26/10 - Here is Ray Smith and Andrew from Brooks	1/26/10 - Luis putting the trim up on the garage. All of the exterior trim will get painted to match the windows.	1/26/10 - The homeslicker is up as well as the 1st 2 post. That's Mark by the way.	1/26/10 - Our post and beam porch
1/26/10 - Andrew and Mark are drilling holes and knocking in pegs respectively.	1/26/10 - Here is a close up.	1/27/10 - The siding begins.	1/27/10 - The electricians are here to wire those switches by the french doors.
1/27/10 - Here is Rob fighting with some wires.	1/27/10 - And here are the plumbers.	1/27/10 - Cutting up our SIP panel to make a wire chase. We pay to build it so they can destroy it.	1/27/10 - Here is another shot with Oz supervising
1/27/10 - The siding continues	1/28/10 - As the siding turns.	1/28/10 - Colin is building the floor to our shower	1/28/10 - The platform for the tub.
1/28/10 - Luis building the wall in our closet laundry room. It separates the closet/laundry from our storage area.	1/28/10 - Another view.	2/3/10 - The base to the shower in the 1st flr bathroom.	2/3/10 - The siding is almost finished on this side
2/3/10 - Garage is done	2/3/10 - Front of garage begins.	2/3/10 - Looking good	2/3/10 - All done. How quick was that!!!
2/3/10 - French doors are back in.for good this time!!!	2/3/10 - Jetta tub for master bath.	2/3/10 - The doors from our upstairs deck.	2/3/10 - The french doors in our great room. All of the french doors are installed.