Building a house, and a family, one step at a time.
How can you create a home that’s more welcoming, more inviting, and more people will be blessed by entering? Well we’re not entirely sure, but here’s a sample of what we’re doing to try to create a Home for Hosting. On this site you’ll find how-to’s, stories, a build blog, and product and technique reviews on what we like, what we’d do differently, and what to avoid when building your own home.
(Oh yeah, we are still very much building this site and importing a ton of posts over from our previous home building blog which was pretty haphazard. BUT, we are already getting some pageviews despite not yet sharing it anywhere, so if you happen to stumble upon this site somehow, please check back later when we’ve got it all prim and proper!)
nik A Pop Here, A Splash There
Some bold blue-green in Milly’s bedroom closet.
nik We thought we were so close!
Kitchen ceiling at about the halfway point: painted/whitewashed tongue and groove 6″ pine between 8×10″ Douglas fir timbers.
nik Door to door delivery
The interior doors arrived. Then they left because they were the wrong ones. But then they arrived again and were all we had ever hoped and dreamed of (because your dreams are overrun by mundane thoughts, decisions and checklists when you’re trying to build a
nik Focus on the tile floor.
Just look at the flooring. Don’t mind the installer.
nik Band together
Mom and Dad F assembling the bandsaw, which was to be used to slice up some of the timbers, but did not have the capacity (at least using the stock blade) to do so, it turns out.