Our wood has arrived!

A special shout out to our Realtor Patty for grabbing this picture for us!

Hopefully framing will begin soon!  So excited!

Foundation and Earth

Not much of an update here, but we have a foundation!   

Our future basement!

The houses on our street in the direction of to The Cove are also progressing quite nicely.  Now we are ready for framing!

They moved some dirt around!

While the picture may not show much, they started work on our house!   We were out of town, but it was wonderful to check our email after we got off the plane to see that the building process has begun!   It was a few days earlier than they had told us, but that is welcome news.   I can't wait to see the foundation!  

View from the front of the house

I really need to remember to take photos in landscape!

We hope to get down to the site weekly to check out the progress.  

Pre-Construction Meeting

Due to our schedules prior to construction, we had our pre-construction meeting within our 30 day change window, and actually two days after our flooring and Guardian appointments.   The nice thing about this is that all of our changes were really fresh in our head, and we had a fun conversation with our Realtor and Sales Associate about our choices.   The unfortunate thing was that since the meetings happened so close together we were the only one with the paperwork for all of those changes.

Our PM is great! They seem to have a PM for the different sections, so our PM has built all of the Elizabeths in Potomac Shores.   They had a lot of great advice for us, and answered a lot of our questions about our grading around our house.    They also explained that two houses next to us are going up around the same time, so that will limit the amount of construction we will have to live with on our side of the street.  Though our sales associate said they are building NV homes on the other side of our street at some point, and they have yet to sell the lot next to us, so it won't be that quiet!

I also knew that we would over time be installing custom shelving for the pantry and a few of the closets so I asked if they could put the same type of support setup pre-drywall that they do for the kitchen in these areas to support our installation, which they said they could do.  I am now on a mission to decide what type of units I will be using so that I know what height to tell them when the time comes.

We also asked a lot of grading questions, as one of the first things on our list of things to do after we move in is to determine what do do with our outdoor space.  We really want to add a patio and/or a deck, and they had recommendations of places to go to start those conversations.

I'm actually pretty glad that we are so busy this month, it will make this long waiting period go by quickly!  I can't wait to get started!