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Working on Our House This Week

By Denese. Filed in My Home And Family  |  
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Just wanted to let you all know that I won’t be online as much and my updates may be a little irregular this week because we are going to be working on our house!

My husband, Lacy, is a carpenter by trade and learned his craft from his daddy and other old-time carpenters.
He builds beautiful homes and log structures.
This is the one he’s working on now:

Custom log house construction

Our place is not so big and fancy.

Our cabin

We were already making payments on our property and didn’t want (and couldn’t afford) a bigger payment over a longer period of time, so we built a little one room cabin to start out and have added to it as time, money and weather permits.
They don’t permit very much, but this week they are! :)

Our Cabin from the back

We’re going from 625 square feet with 2 1/2 rooms (total!) to 1008 square feet with 7 rooms. We hope to get two rooms completely finished by next weekend, a small den on the back and big living room on the bottom, but we’ve also got trees to cut, so if we get that far we’ll be doing well.

logs-going-up-for-back-room

I’ll post an update on our progress later this week.

 

Update:

Working On Our House Update

Have a wonderful day,

Denese

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6 comments to “Working on Our House This Week”

  1. Comment by Alexandra:
    Tuesday, March 24th 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Prays for good weather for you!

    http://happyheartsathome.blogspot.com

  2. Comment by tipper:
    Wednesday, March 25th 2009 at 12:08 pm

    How exciting!! I hope you got a lot done. I bet many people are wishing they paid and built as they went. My husband is a carpenter too-and he built our house.

  3. Comment by Denese:
    Friday, March 27th 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Thank you, have been blessed to not have too much, not like the weatherman said! :)

  4. Comment by Denese:
    Friday, March 27th 2009 at 3:07 pm

    Thank you Tipper. :) We’ve been working in between the raindrops but have managed to get all the logs up on the back room! Yay, more room!
    We’ve sacrificed a lot (mostly privacy and elbow room!) by building as we go, and a lot of people aren’t that willing. Like you said, I bet they would be now.
    That is so neat! These carpenters are handy to have around, aren’t they. :)

  5. Comment by Kristina:
    Monday, March 30th 2009 at 12:52 pm

    You won’t knowwhat to do with all that extra room! Can’t wait to see more pictures. Hope the weather cooperates more than it did this past weekend.

  6. Comment by Denese:
    Tuesday, March 31st 2009 at 10:59 am

    Oh, I know exactly what I’m going to do with the extra room! :)
    The weather is but Lacy had to go back to work, it will have to wait til the weekend. :(