#12 - Two Houses Smooshed Together
Uh, its definitely big enough!
This is the week of framing. And the week of a lot of emotions! The framers began at 12:50 on Monday. There was a crew of 3-4 adults and two minors and the minute they stepped foot on our property their saws and hammers started! Wood was flying! Actually, Matt wanted to come home from work and run some things by them when they arrived, so I sent him a text and he left work. During the time I was waiting for him to get home, there was so much hammering and sawing and a FLURRY OF ACTIVITY that I was afraid they were going to go ahead and just cut right through our bedroom wall where the connection from new to old will be!
I was inside thinking, “ohmigoodness, we’re going to have a gaping hole in our wall TODAY. I am not ready. Oh man, I need to move the furniture. They’re gonna saw right through the walls into the furniture! No…they’re not going to do that! Are they? Oh my goodness, I need to go out and talk to them about this. I don’t want to go out and talk to them about this. What am I gonna do? We’re not ready yet! (I didn’t go talk to them. Logic says they know exactly what they’re doing so, I just held my breath and waited for Matt to get home to check on things!)
Silly me. They weren’t cutting into existing walls. It was nothing major -- just sawing through the roof and throwing up some new walls. Walls. THE WALLS THAT MAKE A HOME!! WALLS were going up at lightning speed. They told us they would come on Monday to “lay things out.” I assumed that mean they were going to assess the situation, do a little measuring and make a game plan for the following day. I never dreamed that they would be sawing, nailing and hammering within FIVE MINUTES of arriving. I AM NOT EXAGERRATING. I have never seen anyone work so fast in my entire life. It was mind blowing. By 2:30, an INSANE amount of work was done.
After they left, I walked into the addition and I was overcome by emotions. It wasn't even just tears. It was a whole debilitating wave of emotions that I couldn't even figure out how to process. I had to go back inside. I'm just so deeply, humbly THANKFUL that this is happening. I'm so thankful that we're at a place where we can expand our home for the purpose of not only getting the blender off the dryer, but to also make it more comfortable for all the people we plan to invite into it someday. There's so much more I need to say about this, and I'll get to that someday when I can process my thoughts in peace (right now people want snacks and youtube vidoes are playing in the background.)
Tuesday, just one man came back with his son and somehow, the TWO of them managed to put up all of the interior walls! I was gone taking kids to school by 8:30, and then went grocery shopping. I returned home at 11:30 and the interior walls were all there! 1 guy + 1 teen guy made it happen.
This is where I have to refrain from matchmaking my daughters with the plumber’s grandson and the framer’s son. Hardworkers at young ages = things that make you stop and pay attention…and also make you tuck away their grandpa/dad’s contact information for 10 years down the road! ;-) On the other hand, I might just send the girls in the backyard with some cookies. Is that bad? Too soon?
Today, the whole crew is back. They're already working on the second story. Did you all know there will be a second story? That will be the guest suite! It’s really tall. I’m going shoot straight with you – the ONE thing that is a concern to me is that it’s going to be tall and huge and overwhelming. It IS big and tall. I mean, we have a ranch house and we’re attaching a story and a half to the back. It’s not exactly a typical style. I don’t want to be the house that people identify as, “You know that weird house down the road. The one where they attached a whole new house to the back…what were they thinking. It's so odd.” EEP. That has me slightly concerned. But Matt assures me that it's going to be FINE. And anyway this is the only possible drawback and the positives far outweight the negatives and at least we won’t be painting it neon green or electric blue. So, any of you that hear talk around town about the weirdos that should’ve just moved but instead attached a house to a house – advocate for our decisions, okay? Tell them that we want to use our house to love people and feed people and protect people -- for the greater good of humanity, and also that the mom inside needed a linen closet and the laundry room to be out of the kitchen area and to just be nice and not judgey, who cares if it's too houses smooshed together?! It's more important to be pretty on the inside anyway. AGH! YIKES!
I’ve been so consumed with several other things besides the house that I don’t even think I have a picture to upload, but I’ll try to update with photos sometime soon!
This is the week of framing. And the week of a lot of emotions! The framers began at 12:50 on Monday. There was a crew of 3-4 adults and two minors and the minute they stepped foot on our property their saws and hammers started! Wood was flying! Actually, Matt wanted to come home from work and run some things by them when they arrived, so I sent him a text and he left work. During the time I was waiting for him to get home, there was so much hammering and sawing and a FLURRY OF ACTIVITY that I was afraid they were going to go ahead and just cut right through our bedroom wall where the connection from new to old will be!
I was inside thinking, “ohmigoodness, we’re going to have a gaping hole in our wall TODAY. I am not ready. Oh man, I need to move the furniture. They’re gonna saw right through the walls into the furniture! No…they’re not going to do that! Are they? Oh my goodness, I need to go out and talk to them about this. I don’t want to go out and talk to them about this. What am I gonna do? We’re not ready yet! (I didn’t go talk to them. Logic says they know exactly what they’re doing so, I just held my breath and waited for Matt to get home to check on things!)
Silly me. They weren’t cutting into existing walls. It was nothing major -- just sawing through the roof and throwing up some new walls. Walls. THE WALLS THAT MAKE A HOME!! WALLS were going up at lightning speed. They told us they would come on Monday to “lay things out.” I assumed that mean they were going to assess the situation, do a little measuring and make a game plan for the following day. I never dreamed that they would be sawing, nailing and hammering within FIVE MINUTES of arriving. I AM NOT EXAGERRATING. I have never seen anyone work so fast in my entire life. It was mind blowing. By 2:30, an INSANE amount of work was done.
After they left, I walked into the addition and I was overcome by emotions. It wasn't even just tears. It was a whole debilitating wave of emotions that I couldn't even figure out how to process. I had to go back inside. I'm just so deeply, humbly THANKFUL that this is happening. I'm so thankful that we're at a place where we can expand our home for the purpose of not only getting the blender off the dryer, but to also make it more comfortable for all the people we plan to invite into it someday. There's so much more I need to say about this, and I'll get to that someday when I can process my thoughts in peace (right now people want snacks and youtube vidoes are playing in the background.)
Tuesday, just one man came back with his son and somehow, the TWO of them managed to put up all of the interior walls! I was gone taking kids to school by 8:30, and then went grocery shopping. I returned home at 11:30 and the interior walls were all there! 1 guy + 1 teen guy made it happen.
This is where I have to refrain from matchmaking my daughters with the plumber’s grandson and the framer’s son. Hardworkers at young ages = things that make you stop and pay attention…and also make you tuck away their grandpa/dad’s contact information for 10 years down the road! ;-) On the other hand, I might just send the girls in the backyard with some cookies. Is that bad? Too soon?
Today, the whole crew is back. They're already working on the second story. Did you all know there will be a second story? That will be the guest suite! It’s really tall. I’m going shoot straight with you – the ONE thing that is a concern to me is that it’s going to be tall and huge and overwhelming. It IS big and tall. I mean, we have a ranch house and we’re attaching a story and a half to the back. It’s not exactly a typical style. I don’t want to be the house that people identify as, “You know that weird house down the road. The one where they attached a whole new house to the back…what were they thinking. It's so odd.” EEP. That has me slightly concerned. But Matt assures me that it's going to be FINE. And anyway this is the only possible drawback and the positives far outweight the negatives and at least we won’t be painting it neon green or electric blue. So, any of you that hear talk around town about the weirdos that should’ve just moved but instead attached a house to a house – advocate for our decisions, okay? Tell them that we want to use our house to love people and feed people and protect people -- for the greater good of humanity, and also that the mom inside needed a linen closet and the laundry room to be out of the kitchen area and to just be nice and not judgey, who cares if it's too houses smooshed together?! It's more important to be pretty on the inside anyway. AGH! YIKES!
I’ve been so consumed with several other things besides the house that I don’t even think I have a picture to upload, but I’ll try to update with photos sometime soon!
I was so excited for a photo,bum.
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