To Our Friends At Creekside

May 16, 2009 -

Our friends at Creekside posted a comment the other day asking for a construction update - probably because we're never at the property and the 'site' hasn't moved past the final stages of demolition in the past several months... I'm sorry for the lack of house-building info lately, but honestly it's just because there ISN'T any info!

Yes, we are still building a house. Yes, we would like it to happen this year. No, there is not a foundation contractor about to show up on our property next week.

This house is very special and important to both of us, so it's not something we could really jump into too quickly. Last spring I was hugely optimistic about what we would accomplish right after we bought the property. But over the past year, our ideas about what exactly to build have changed a million times. Maybe we're just waiting for one idea to stick long enough for it to feel right? As you might already know, Joe and I are not huge consumers. We want this house to last us for a good while and we want to be happy in it. So we're thinking everything through. Plus, there's always so much going on! At the moment, I'm not quite sure how anybody gets a house built and has a life at the same time...

The latest house designs have been either timber frame or prefab. Deciding whether or not to put in a basement has been a HUGE issue. We currently have a lovely sunny loft in the middle of the house. We'll have one bedroom, a bathroom, and a spacious office on the north side of the house; kitchen, dining room, and living room on the south. Huge windows on the south side for passive solar. Hopefully a deck? But very few things are set in stone.

I promise we'll build our house, and when it starts happening, I'm going to document every last bit of the process. We can't wait to live there, enjoy the feeling of living on our OWN property for once, put in some permanent gardens and chicken coops, and hang out with our very cool friends at Creekside. :)