Another Trip To Lawson - 13th September 2008

Yesterday we took another trip out to the Lawson house and couldn't believe how much framing they had already done, wow ... it's really exciting !!! This gave us a better idea of how little a back yard we really would have and how high in the air our deck out our back door would be. Dave seems to be happy with how little mowing he will have to do but we are both hoping that we have not made a mistake having such a small really useless back yard. For us I think it will be perfect because we never use our back yard, not ever, if anything we use the deck and that we will have, a nice big one so ... I hope the privacy is what sells the house when we want to resell one day ... golly I hope that is a VERY long time to go so really worrying about it now, is not worth it. I think we will love it. I know we will love it !!!

Jade has been with us out there on two occasions and has already met a few kids that live right there in the area, apparently there are many that are close in age to her so I feel confident we will be happy there. Also we heard that on Friday nights they have a very social outside life and we love that so we are now even more excited to move in, we were worried about not being in a cul de sac but now I think we will be just fine :-) here's hoping !!!

Here you can see the framing from the front ...





And here you can see the back of the house, you can tell where the back door will come out half way up the house ... that bottom area for those that don't know how houses work here, if you build on a slope and don't go for a basement plan, they build what they call a tall crawl, it's a huge, huge and I mean huge storage area under the house. Most people just keep their mowers etc. down there but we plan to use it like we would use attic storage, only we need to make sure that stuff doesn't get wet down there ... we need to research it all a bit more. But you can also see how small the back yard will be, once we move in, Dave will clean out the brush a bit to make it look nicer but really our grass won't run too far into the forest area, it's not a forest but you know what I mean, wooded area.



Both neighbors on either side are new, the rest of the houses around us have been there at least a year and one or two are into their second year. But both neighbors on either side of us will be really new, you can tell the one on the right as you face the house is a little more ahead of us in framing but the one on the right, a real Charleston looking house, closes this week so they will be moving in really soon. I didn't like the look of this one when I first saw it, maybe it was the color but I love the Charleston look with the balcony's :-) Dave loves more of a brick frontage which is what we have gone with so I don't think he likes this one much.



Anyway stay tuned, we will keep updating as the house progresses.