Kreem Farm House Raising

Super Fast Superior Walls

Well, here's how it all starts! This crane is HUGE, extends over 3 stories high. As you saw in the last blog, they brought the walls in on a flatbed truck. Then the crane lifted them off, one by one. Andy said the walls were spinning the whole time the crane operator was lowering them. Then, just as he had the walls lowered close to where he wanted to drop them, still spinning, he would just drop it. On the dime, right where it was supposed to be. Pretty cool huh? Maybe I'm so impressed because I can't even parallel park??



Oh course, we have to have a one more picture of this monster crane. COWBOY UP??? Where have I seen that before?? The other cool thing was that when they were finished and loading up, Andy said the crane picked up the flatbeds and stacked them one on top of the other with the truck driving them all out!

Now talk about holding your breath, this is the last wall going in. All those skeptics were wondering if was going to really come together, square like it's supposed to. Well, you can breathe now, it fits!! Like a glove, and I'm not talking about an O.J. fit!

The last pictures are views of the basement from different angles of the house. Of course, this is the almost finished view from the master bedroom side of the house.

And this view is the front of the house. The area sticking out in the front of the house is where the porch will be. Can you see me now, rocking away, admiring the sunset while my wonderful husband has brought me lemonade to enjoy while he massages my feet?? Okay, whose dream was that anyway? The rocking chair part might work out though!!

And this is what you would see as you turn into the garage from the driveway. The two really big holes are garage doors, and the smaller hole is an entry door into the garage. This side of the house will be stone veneered to match the stone work on the front of the house and the chimney. There will also be some kind of retaining wall here as the slope goes down from the front. The retaining wall remains in the planning phase and the negotiations continue!
So here's the view that Apache and Jordan will have from the back of the house. Keep in mind all that you see here will be under the deck on the main level of the house. This is basement. The two big doors will be sliders. The door on your far right an entry door, and the hole on your far left, a window. The hole in the middle is a dog door...just kidding!! It's the hole to the chimney for Andy's future woodburning stove that we hope to install in the basement at a later date.

Surely you didn't think, we could spend a day on the Kreem Farm without just one view of the pond. This is on the back shoreline, opposite from the house. Squint really hard and you can see the Cowboy Up Machine up there. Andy has made TREMENDOUS progress thinning out the woods behind the house. We have a little more to go, but not much more. We plan of leaving some trees for a nice shaded natural area. By the way, from this view, about 20ft behind you will be the future picnic/party area. Now that's what I'm talking about! Stay posted, we hope to have basement plumbing installed and concrete flooring poured by the end of the week.

Just want to take a little time to thank our builder James Hill, site foreman James, and office manager Katie, for all their hard work, time and patience in making this house our home!! Thanks So Much Folks!!

posted by Kim & Andy @ 11:21 PM