Nothing but Blue Skies

The only good thing I can say about Austin's record breaking drought and heat wave is that there has not been a single rain delay during our house construction. In the last three weeks the painters were busy and completed the exterior paint and front porch stain. We are happy with the color choices, the soft grays complement the parched landscape (and someday will go well with a little green). The roof is progressing, it should be finished any day now -- and then let the rains come.

As far as the inside, the dogs are still walking through walls but the veins of the house are all in: plumbing, heating/cooling, electrical. The sheetrock is sitting in neat piles throughout the house, we expect it and the insulation to go up this week.

We had a visitor this week so you'll see our guest room occuppied in the pictures below.

Arch de Triumph

Much of the Hardiplank is in place and the curvature of the porch is well defined. Once the front and back porches are completed, painting can begin. We chose a light gray color (Useful Gray) and a darker gray with slight blue undertones (Attitude Gray) for the roof trim and garage door. These colors seem to compliment the silver color of our standing seam Galvalume roof. It was a little hard to imagine; we used a 6 by 14 inch scrap of roof that I borrowed from the construction site down the street as my model.

The electrical work and the plumbing is in. We'll have an electrical inspection this week. Apparently we'll have at least two electrical inspections, standard procedure is to fail the first time. I think of it in terms of software, this would be called iterative development.

The dogs are getting fuzzy. Take a look below.