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!)
Dream team
I hope these kids look back fondly on this whole process, but I wouldn’t blame them if they didn’t. They were always so quick to want to help, and when a task fell into their wheelhouse of skill and just enough challenge, they were always up
Last pitch
Dan and Mike framing up the small (but steep) last little bit of roof section over the master bedroom windows, connecting to the front entrance, which is mostly framed up here.
Everybody poops.
And when they do it at our house, it goes here, enroute to the septic field.
Front entrance grows
Some notches, some giant screws, a lot of grunting, and the front entrance begins to take shape.
Big peak
The roof sheathing and trusses are finished! That big X means “you probably don’t want to fall off here.”