Jack's Place: It's a House

I don't know much about building, let's get that out of the way right up front. I do know that when I saw our lot on Monday, just 6 days ago, it was a hole with a couple of 2x6s sitcking up in the air.

Here's what it is today:

I mean, that's our house!!! Walls, stairs, studs (not just me), rooms, window openings. It's all there. I got to walk into my house, and you could tell where all the rooms of the house were. I really didn't expect this much to get done in one week. That's why I'm not a builder. When I turned the corner and saw this, I was amazed.

It's been a big weekend, Amy's cousin Beth was in town. She is an interior designer and we spent some time talking color with her on Saturday. We came to some decisions and she had some great ideas, hopefully she'll be willing to help us along the way. We also picked some light fixtures that Amy and I both like a lot, and that's not easy to do. And with the house being up, it was a lot easier to start picturing the finished product.

This is looking into the house from the front door. To the left are the two smaller bedrooms and a bathroom. Straight ahead is the living room (both windows are in the living room), the opening you see to the left is the doorwall off the kithen, and to the right is the windows in the bedroom.

This is Amy standing in our living room, kitchen to the left, our room to the right. So needless to say, we're pretty fired up. Not sure what the next step is (feel free to guess, the winner gets to help paint the room of their choice).