Windows :)

Who knew that a window could excite a girl so much?  Mario and I have lived in two homes during our twenty years of marriage. The first home and this house both had the most horrible old single paned windows.  These windows are beautiful and energy efficient. I'm really hoping that will help with the $6,000,000 a month PG&E bill.  LOL 

New Angel on things.

Things are moving really fast here right now. I can barely keep up with the pictures and getting them posted.  While things change around here everyday right now, I wanted to post a few pictures of the beautiful angles and beams that the new addition will have.  This was a very simple ranch house which was basically a big rectangle from the outside, but no longer. Our wonderful architect Lou Hall did a great job of making the addition feel like it was always part of the house yet adding a lot of new interesting architectural elements to the character of the house.  

We love it!! 

Clean up day!!

We spent the day saturday cleaning up the mess left behind by the saws, nail guns, and workers. Our contractor and his crew have been awesome to work with so I'm not complaining about the soda cans, water bottles and mounds of saw dust and nails left behind everyday. Really I'm not!! haha

As long as they are making progress, I will gladly sweep up behind them.

Besides, they feed Luigi lunch everyday. :)

Things are taking shape

This pictures were taken today 3/24/10. We expecting the framing to be done in just a couple days.

The walls go up!!!!!!!

You have no idea how thrilled we were to see that first wall go up.  The framing is going fast and expected to take a couple weeks.  There is no rain in the forecast we are making great progress. :)

Forward progress!!!!

After weeks of rain, we were finally able to pour the foundation. We are off and running now!! :)

Rebel

This should explain the two and a half month absence from posting pictures on this blog. That's right, we had a little........set back, I guess you could say.
The truth is, I'm married to an Italian...need I say anymore.
Call it racial profiling, call it stereo typing, call it whatever you want, but they know it all, all the time.
 Mario was certain that we didn't need to get permits for this enormous project.  Why you ask, because he's Italian I told you and he knows it all!!!!!
So the first week of december the work stopped and the process to get the permits began. It was long, and ridiculously involved but I'm happy to say that it's over and the hammers are once again banging here.
As for Mario........he's still Italian but I just love that big Ragu!!!!