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 Taking shape
The main windowed-wall of the living room’s cathedral design nears framing completion.
nik Good timing
It’s good having friends randomly show up right as you’re pouring a few metres of concrete walls and sonotubes.
nik Skip the concrete truck
A couple bags of cement and some piles of sand and stone to finish the last piers. These couldn’t be done until the retaining wall was finished as they were in its backfill area.
nik Bombs away
Had just parked the tractor and headed for whatever cover a roofless house could offer when a ladder flew off the upper level and landed on the hood, denting it in the process.
nik Virtual tour
Our truss company, Unitized, created a 3d map of the house, which was super helpful in measuring and viewing studs, spaces, and such.