Start, stop, wait, change, you can't, go, hold it, I need a check.... people ask how it's going and all I can say is I hope I live through the process (I do laugh, when I say that). On track, off track I just want to be finished and that I'm serious about. Part of it is my own patience level which has never been very high (I was ready for them to be finished before the project started). Part of it is my obsession with being neat and organized which as you can imagine has been slightly impacted by this project. The rest is, well, you know....it's construction!

It's interesting to me because I approached our home construction project the same way I would any of my own assignments. As a partnership, and a creative partnership at that since we were building something. I also figured that just like in our business this partnership would be based on good communication and lots of give and take. For me it's always about the partnership and I make sure every single day that the people who hire me not only get what they ask for but walk away feeling like they got way more.

I forgot, however, that in this project my partners carried tools that were just as capable of demolition as they were of creating... and by the way they weren't real talkers....

What follows is the Sept/Oct/Nov series of pictures of the framing.

Yeah..the lumber finally arrives.

Can't tell you the satisfaction of seeing wood on the foundation

closing up the old basement

Cutting a door into a foundation wall

So then we left for South Africa for 2 weeks and came home to this

It was pretty cool seeing it half way up

Inch by inch it kept going up and up

So here it was in late November early December, and then it started to snow...