Tag Archives: Green Home

Building has begun

It has been a few weeks since I have posted an update, but during that time, we have had a lot of activity on our land.  Last week, the builder laid out all the sidewall strings and began digging the footings for the house.  Those were dug and then poured in about a day.  To [...]

Building permit in progress

This week, the builder is working on permitting.  We are hoping to have a building permit within the next two weeks and hoping that work will begin shortly after that.  Jen and I have signed off on the plans, specs and construction agreement and returned those to Sterling Homes along with the first payment. We [...]

Loan closed; money released; building getting ready to start

We spent the afternoon today closing on our construction loan.  With the financing all locked down, we now have a line of credit available to us from Conway National Bank to use for the building process.  We will begin our draw process next week once everything has been booked.  The first draw will cover foundation [...]

How our house was designed…

** The picture above was our very first rough draft of the house plan…  it changed a lot since. I figured that today was a great time to tell the story of how our house plans came together.  This has been a long term project.  The drawing above was doodled out on my friend Jamie’s [...]

Trees are coming down, things finally moving along

Yesterday was an exciting day. The first visible activity of our build has begun on the land and the builder is getting the site ready for a house to go in. The trees came down quickly yesterday and the lot looks completely different today. Here are some photos of the progress…  A BIG ole THANK [...]

Front Elevation

This is the front elevation of our future house.  I have photo shopped it so that we get a better idea of the colors and what the final product will look like.  We are excited!