Nothing Lasts Forever, Even Cold September Rain (Cue The Cold October Rain!)

September was a long, rainy month for our house construction. Fortunately, things are getting back on track, and they're making some progress in quite a few areas. Check out the pictures below:

Here you can see that most of the windows are almost completed. They look really dark in this weather, but in reality they're only slightly tinted black. We asked for that to make the house look more bad-ass and Darth Vader-y.

The house from the back. They also were putting up this structure to go around the bottom of the roof, to hold the gutters. That was also a long, slow process.

The house on September 25, 2008. Getting there...

The living room-kitchen area. The white stuff on the bottom of the rafters is a sort of insulation. We bought it mainly to reduce the noise of the rain, which sounds like a jet engine when it really gets going. Hopefully it'll also help with humidity and mold prevention, as well.

On the outside of the house, there is an overhang of a meter or so in some places, so we decided to put wood panels there, since that's one of the common ways to go about covering them. Once again, another long, slow process. But at least it looks nice.

The area in front of the main entry to the house.

Here you can see how they put it together, one piece at a time.

Finally, a picture from today, October 5th, 2008. As you can see, they've got the garage door up. That whole process took only about half a day, and it covers around 18 square meters of wall space. My free advice to you: If you ever decide to build a house, build the whole thing out of garage doors.

Anyhow, hope you enjoyed the pictures a bit. I'll try to get some more up for you soon! Thanks for reading!
-Ryan