Category Archives: Home-Building

Home-Building 101: Decking, Siding, and Trim. Oh My!

Things are moving WAY too slow for me.  I’m ready to move NOW.  Like, right now!  BUT, I admit, the house is looking quite nice and I should be patient.  It’s just so stinkin’ hard to wait and not be able to do anything when no one shows up to work (which has happened numerous...

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Home-Building 101: Framing Cont’d

Things are moving along nicely.  Framing is nearly finished and now decking begins.  I had no idea what that meant until a week ago.  Apparently, decking is the plywood that goes on up top before shingles.  In other words, the roof.  HA!  Who knew! What do you think of those big front and back porches? ...

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Home-Building 101: Framing

Things are moving along nicely on the “home” front.  This week, we’re actually beginning to see what resembles a house. Here’s the front. It took us such a long time to finalize our floor plan – it’s almost as if we were the designers.  A lot of heart and soul went into the decisions on...

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June 10, 2010 - 5:16 pm

Kim - So exciting, Shannon! Who is your builder if you don’t mind me asking. We are planning to build this year, too! =)

June 10, 2010 - 11:37 pm

kristy - im so happy for you….i think you should definitely have a roof put on..hehe and a room for me! miss u

Home-Building 101: The Beginning

For those of us who’ve never built a home before, it’s a learn-as-you-go process.  For the Gurney gang, it’s definitely Home-building 101. Things have finally started, though, which truly seems like a miracle.  The 10 acres we purchased almost 3 years ago has been long paid for.  The pipe fence is up with a super-cool...

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May 17, 2010 - 7:08 am

MelodyA. - So exciting. But you always have to add on a few months to the end of the projected end date. Never know what will happen to stall the project. We built two houses and in the end were so glad we did.

May 17, 2010 - 10:03 am

Shannon - How exciting !!! Heather and Jeff are almost finished with there new house. I hope you girls had fun at the snap shot class for Mom’s this weekend. Kammerin sure seems like she had a good time !!!

May 17, 2010 - 10:05 pm

Charla - It seems like forever, then you are 4 days from moving in and it seems to go by so fast! Good luck and good weather to you!!

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