Panels are up!

And the Garage Construction is starting soon!

As in next week soon! Yippee! They are bringing in panels for the garage (which will be finished with siding so when it's done you won't be able to tell which is solid log and which is panelized) and Pete called and said they will be here next week to start work on it!

The plan so far is to finish the garage so that we have storage space while they work on the upstairs bedrooms (because right now we have zero storage, which will only get worse when we have 1 bedroom to live in while they rework the roof and create the bedrooms.) Once the garage is done we'll be able to store everything in there, and the kids will sleep in the playroom (we'll probably just put their mattresses on the floor so we don't have to set up all their beds). Hopefully once they get started we'll have some new pictures to share!

The Garage floor...

Moving right along!

After the excavation was finished, they had to level out the area and block it out to get it ready for the cement trucks. Our son was thrilled about this part because of the huge pile of dirt they left!







Everything is coming along well! We're trying to finish up the inside of the playroom (they have the paneling up inside and we're putting the flooring down ourselves along with little things like painting, putting up the lights, etc...) It's exciting to see it moving along so quickly! I know after the cement gets poured it will slow down a bit because the contractor is finishing up another project before getting started on the garage. But it's still nice to see things getting done!

Excavation

The guys showed up to dig out the foundation for the garage! You can see they marked it out first, then started digging. This will be a cement slab foundation when it's finished.

Tearing down the doors...

Pete and his team showed up the morning and started construction on the garage. Right now it's a 2 car garage, with half of it being used for heating and storage (since there's no basement here on the lake). Once they are finished it will be a playroom/family room with a mudroom leading in from the new attached garage. The part that's storage will stay like that, but will be walled off.

The doors are off... You can see to the left is the other part of the garage with the furnace and storage. That part will stay but will be walled off.









And once they were done for the day. You can see they have the walls framed and it's starting to look like a real room!

The contruction begins...

We've finally decided to go ahead and start construction on the "Lakehouse". The Lakehouse is a full log home (built by Beaver Mountain Log & Cedar Homes almost 20 years ago!) Right now it's a 2 bedroom home with a 2 car garage downstairs. By the time we're finished it will be a 3 bedroom with an attached garage. The current garage will be transformed into a playroom/family room.


We have 3 little children and were quickly outgrowing the space. By the time this is finished we'll have much more space, the kids will have room to play (and we will get the toys out of the living room!) and we'll have an additional bedroom! We can't wait!

Pete Hathaway from Catskill Construction is doing the addition. We'll start with the playroom, then get the excavation and foundation done for the garage (before the snow comes hopefully) and then work on the dormers and bedrooms (which involves taking the roof off part of the house) and finish up the garage.