Category Archives: House Building

We’re having moments of enlightenment and pleasure as we put in our 12 hour days to bring the house to completion. For example, this photo shows the “great” room in the afternoon, where I am assembling our kitchen cabinets. This … Continue reading →

This week has brought a lot of texture to the outside of the house, and major progress on the inside. The driveway and curb have been completed, stained cedar siding is going onto the setbacks on the front of the … Continue reading →

…or perhaps, “it’s there!” At the end of the movie “Groundhog Day”, Bill Murray has a moment of enlightenment when he realizes it’s a new day. We finally can see our house, in something like it’s final form. Awareness pops … Continue reading →

Now that the stucco is done, I’ve taken time off of work to install the cable railing system. It’s more than half done now, and the results are great! And my arms ache from the effort. I bought cable kits … Continue reading →

Vargas Construction is finishing the exterior stucco today, and here are a few pictures. What surprises me the most is how different the finish looks at different times of the day. Above, you see the house early in the morning, … Continue reading →

Finish details are appearing as we push towards our move-in date. We hope to be in the house in early June, and that will require completion of the kitchen, a bathroom, exterior deck railing, working doors and lighting, and a … Continue reading →

The four-day transformation is complete, and we now have walls. The picture above is the same part of the house from last week, before sheetrock. What a difference! I think I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. Living room, with … Continue reading →

After 3-1/2 months of infrastructure work, we’re starting a few weeks of radical change. There will be walls and ceilings soon, and the place was swarming with teams yesterday – plumbers finishing drains, Tony & Mauricio tending framing details, a … Continue reading →

There was a computer game in the ‘70’s called “adventure”, where you could get lost in “a maze of twisty passages, all alike”. I’ve felt like I’m lost in a maze of twisted details, but today I stumbled out and … Continue reading →

No, not that kind of railings. Well, maybe a little 🙂 I took some vacation time from my job this week, so I could work on the house. The railing system arrived a week ago, and someone needed to install … Continue reading →