Communication (1 inch)

Building a house can be an exciting but stressful event in ones life. David and I have always been very good at communicating with each other but we are having to adjust our method of communicating slightly because we each have different focuses with the new house. He is all about structure and pipes and wires and I am about color, texture and form. So to demonstrate the evolution of our communcation and why my husband is hysterical... here are two conversations we have had....

Me: I have picked out the colors for the master area, I think it looks really great with the tile and the new rug we got in San Francisco.

Dave: Uh Huh

Me: I am a little concerned about what to paint the main part of the house because it has to transition into the bedrooms upstairs because of the open floor plan.

Dave: I am sure you will find the perfect color

Me: Well, I was looking at this one but I don't want to get too much of a cave feel to... (he cuts me off)

Dave: I appreciate you telling me all this, but I really don't care. I know I like your tastes and whatever you pick will be good. I can't help you on this. Maybe you can ask your mom or get with Tracy and see what he thinks.

End of discussion 1

A few days later -

Dave: I was talking to WicksonCreek about the water line and the guy was saying we just need a 3/4 ths inch pipe from the street but I don't think that will keep water pressure to a level for that size house. I mean if you know about physics then the farther an object has to travel it looses momentum so if you are going 250 feet (my eyes have glazed over) then you have (insert random number here) psi at the source then you only have (smaller random number here) at the destination in a 3/4ths inch pipe but if you go... (I cut him off)

Me: Honey, I have one question....... What color do you want the living room painted?

Dave: 1 inch.

See... We are communicating!

Terminology

Wow.... Here is the thing I didn't think about. Those construction guys all have different words for stuff than what I know.. I know medical NOT construction.

Furr Down.... I thought this was a dead animal on the side of the road
Tower... I thought this was a building - apparently is something you put ontop of a counter
canned lights... Um.. lights in a can?
Trusses - I thought this is what southern women wore under their long puffy skirts


Oh I can go on and on

Forever Hot Water

Wow... that sounds cool.... I can stand in the shower....well... Forever!
http://www.foreverhotwater.com/

http://www.plumbersurplus.com/Cat/Tankless-Water-Heaters/136

Sky Light

So another thing I need right off is a skylight. They have these coooooool skylights at Velux that have a "solar battery lightblock shade" which basically is a control to open and close the shade on solar power. This STUFF is COOOL. I am going to be in this room rolling the shade up and down and up and down and up and down and ....

http://www.veluxusa.com/products/accessories/blindsAndShades/solarBatteryLightblockShade/

WHEEEEWWWEEWW WHEeeewWweeew

Okay I have to get a fireman's pole. Ever try to order a fireman's pole? Not like you can call sears up and say... HEY -- I would like a brass 22 foot fireman's sliding pole, here's my credit card number.

Nope... They HIDE them from you.

I have called the Bryan Fire Department... Got DUHHHHH nope.
I called the College Station Fire Department and talked to Becky who informed me that College Station is currently building a 2 story fire department and she would ask her boss on Tuesday(cuz Monday is a holiday and their won't be any fires)where they would order a fireman's pole from because he would know and if not they were working with the architect firm of F. Brown and Associates and I could call them cuz they would have all the specifications. So I called them, cuz I aint proud and got a really wierd answering machine..... I left a message and then I got an Idea.... Google fire station architects (what's up the the silent t at the end of architects - I guess i got a silent T at the end of Gillett) So I emailed this one company in South Carolina named Fire Facilities ( No silent T). I am sure they will mark me as spam!

I did find a company in Virginia if all else local fails

http://www.slidepole.com/index.htm

another group that sells equipment is

http://www.edarley.com/

These guys are in WA

http://brassfinders.com/fire_poles.php

These guys are in AZ

http://www.berniesbrass.com/

Happy Birthday

So during discussions this week my husband informed me he is planning for our new house to be complete by July of 2008, in time for my 2nd 39th birthday.

Uuhhmmm....

That is 6 months away.

So what do I do???

Started packing - HIS stuff first, of course. This bookshelf was filled with turn of the century medical books and notes, but since we are not blood letting anymore - creating little need for reference... I thought it would be safe for me to pack.

Second thing I did ... Pick out TILE!

I have an appointment on Wednesday with Judy of Chapman's paint to work on colors. yea.

I thought I would get the decoration details out of the way so when I am faced with mondain decisions like where to place the portocan I wont have tooo many things running through my head.
I do need the burn ban to go away because I have stuff I

need to burn.

First Step - Access

So I use to drive out to our land and walk around in the quiet and look at all the beauty and grandeur. It was quite peaceful. Well - APPARENTLY that has changed. I now have HUMONGOUS equipment and a new drive base down. So it begins....

The Plans

This would be the First Level

And this is the Second level

"Before Pictures"

This is the Entrance to the property

It took us a long time to find this piece of land. It is PERFECT for us. Just under 4 acres, surrounded by trees and a wet weather creek, at the end of a road. We looked at this specific plot for 6-8 months. The people who were selling it had decided that if it hadn't sold by the end of X month, they would keep it. Well, unknown to us we put a bid on it at the middle of X month and got it. As God would have it, we know 4 or 5 people that have either built or will be building on that street.







Home Site here.... We have been clearing a bit.

As For Me and My House....

...we will serve the Lord. Josh. 24:15

All my life I have wanted to build a house. My husband is honoring me by making it happen. This blog will be just for home updates.