Author: Shelley

Happy New Year

Stem Wall and Prep

Good Grief I haven’t updated this in forever. We totally missed the day that the concrete footers were poured. Jack took pix and Lisa shared them, so I need to get those posted on the site too!

New Years Eve we spent some time playing on the lot. The girls and the neighbor kiddos had fun digging for shells and discovering some huge ones in there! These are probably the most spendy shells ever. They came in with the dirt that was brought in for the lot. They weren’t just discovered there like beachy artifacts. But shells are shells and its always fun digging them up and seeing who finds the coolest ones!

I feel like at some point along the way in December we picked the flooring for the house too. I’ll post that to the finishes page! We went with the most white flooring we could find. Tile. 24×48 inches / large format rectangle. Super simple. Super modern. Cannot wait to see it go through the whole house!

Today is January 6th and we went by the lot to check out what’s happening on our way home from the bus stop. Looks like tons of plumbing is going in and prepping up the area to pour the slab soon. YEAH!

At least the girls and their friends and neighbors know we are serious and really building a house this time. Jack has this moving and grooving along and we are so excited!

More Progress. More Fun.

Sitework

More progress @ Mar Azul this week. Looks like the survey guys were out again, the lot is graded and marked. Not sure what the right words are for it, but it sure looks like the little flags, wood and string are all showing the footprint of the house.

And of course much more fun to visit the lot now because the girls can see we are really working on a house ? and they can play in the dirt.

Clearing out the lot!

Sitework

Oh happy day. They are clearing out the lot and WOAH is there a bunch of junk in there and it is looking like a little mountain of dirt. Can’t wait to see it fully cleaned up + leveled out.

This crazy piece of land seems so much larger that we expected now that all the trees + weeds + junk are knocked down too.

TODAY IS BEST DAY EVER

Planning

Permits are approved!!! With conditions…but whatever!

They are APPROVED. We can finally start! SO super duper excited.

Next up, before and after photos of the lot. Cannot wait to see that all cleared out soon. ???

For our historical record on this journey…this is crazy how much the permits cost! It doesn’t even include the $3640 application fee. Good grief that’s a ton of money to get going ???

Trees Louise

Planning

Darn it. Could it be true? Those crazy trees on our lot are the ONLY thing stopping us from starting the project? YES. Hopefully we can get moving without a perfect landscape plan.

It’s driving us nuts to see that overgrown lot of nasty Brazilian Pepper trees + weeds + who knows what else in there.

I’m wishing super duper hard we get approval this week and we can clear the lot and see what we’ve got!

Fingers crossed.