Ypsi, Simply: Building our green home in the woods

Full certificate of occupancy is in hand. I can't even. Just SO relieved to close out our building permit, and that the last couple stre...

Well I fell into the trap. The house is almost done, you move in, get even busier, and stop blogging. Oy. Not like y'all have been clam...

Well it's been an interesting first few weeks in the new house.  Slowly getting the creature comforts installed and making sense of thin...

Google must have done a pretty recent flyover, as they captured our house from above after all the snow had melted, but before any plants gr...

Distinct lack of posts lately; not due to a lack of progress, just due to a lack of surplus time and energy. But we made a mad dash to the (...

After finishing up the framing, insulation and drywall, and getting started on the exterior siding, we all realized that something was missi...

Well, it's awful nice having a clean, dry place to enter and exit the house from. finally. Because this is not what you want to see...

Ok, I guess we can stop now, actually. But I just realized I never posted a picture of these lovely stairs Greg built for us! They a...

I can't tell you how relieved I am to be done with all the plumbing work. One headache of incompatibility after another. No ones fault i...

There is a halfway decent looking concrete floor!  It was quite a relief to see, actually. This pic is just a tease of some of our long term...

The electricians have been busy. It's fun seeing our plan for lighting come to life. Note: the following pics are not the final conf...

.. for a new blog post, Sebastien has been helping me make a big push on tiling the master bathroom. Thanks dude! Started with a base of...

Thanks to Dave and Ari for helping us paint some ceilings!  Meanwhile, I focused on the master bathroom tile prep.

Getting there!  Hate to spoil it before it's totally done, but it could be a while yet. 

Felt good to do some painting again. Nothing fancy, just one quick coat of primer in the kitchen so that Greg could get started on installin...

Boom!  Siding is going ON.  Can't wait for the ladders to come down so we can see the whole picture!  No more teasers until it'...

Blarg!  The mud. Oh, the mud. Thankfully the majority of our native soils are sandy. This part of the driveway, however, is not native s...

It's like a real-live home now, almost!  sort of.  Getting there, anyway.  View from the loft.

The snow is finally melting! whaa-hoooo!  We can see dirt for the first time in months. Of course, that means we're into mud -season...