We woke up Sunday morning to a light powdering of snow, maybe 2". We decided that it would be a good idea to shovel the snow off the sub-floor so it wouldn't get wet, blister the OSB-oriented strand board and cause floor squeaks in the future. Have I ever mentioned that I'm a little left-brained? 1937 square feet takes a little while to clean 2" of snow off of. At least Barb has a heads up of what it will take to vacuum, sweep and mop the various floor coverings. And I have a good idea how nice it would have been to sleep inside the house after making a remark like that. There is the 3rd car garage though.  

This will be the nook or dining room looking towards the South. The exterior walls are 6". The ceiling in the nook will be the standard 8'. The rest of the kitchen, great room, entry hallway and den are vaulted. The floors in the kitchen, dining room, laundry room and half bath will be tiled.

This is the great room looking towards the master bedroom. The corner is where the gas fireplace will be. The great room, hallway and bedrooms will be carpeted. The main bath will be tiled with tiled tub/shower surrounds.

These are the trusses that form the vaulted ceilings over the kitchen and great room. The doorway leads to the double garage. To the right of the door is the laundry room and to the left is the half bath. The tall step ladder is a keeper in the event the framers take off without it. :-) Barb will need it to change the light bulbs in the great room when the occasion occurs.

This is looking towards the South out the great room window.

This is looking out the master bedroom window and will probably be Sophie's favorite place to be so she can watch the hills for rabbits and such.

The next two pictures are the guest bedrooms which are kind of useless if no one ever comes to visit. `:)

My favorite room, the den. This will have hardwood floors and eventually built-in bookshelves along the wall to the right.

Doesn't look like much now but this will be the front entry to the home. The entry will be tiled as well.

This is the kitchen looking from the great room with the pantry in the corner. The step ladder laying down is on a board that covers what will be the stairs leading to the basement. The basement floor had only been in for a few days so the builder had a heater going to keep it warm while the cement cured.

Deer visitors-possibly three snow snakes having a race. There seems to be an abundance of wildlife around the community. Not only deer but we've seen upland game birds-not sure if they were sharp tail grouse, sage chickens or midget turkeys-the older eyes aren't what they use to be. Living in the city this long, most the foul I see is cut up, wrapped up, over-priced and frozen if you know what I mean. Seems the prickly pear cactus went away-at least until the snow melts.

 

This is the master bath. The jetted garden tub goes in the corner just under the window. The vanity goes along the wall to the right and the shower is in the corner opposite the jetted garden tub. The floor will be tiled along with the tub surround and shower. It will have a toilet too, forgot to mention that. It will be to the left of the garden tub.

Back to cleaning the snow off the sub-floor. I talked to the builder bright and early Monday morning and confessed that we were out and cleaned the snow off the sub-floor thinking we saved the day and helped the framers out so they wouldn't have to shovel it. He's hilarious. He said "bud-don't you have anything else to do with your time?" He uses an exterior grade OSB that can have standing water on it for like 2-3 months, it's 3/4" tongue and groove, glued and ring-nailed to the joists. It was nice to be out doing something though. :-) 

Our next adventure is roughing in the cable for video/data/phone, the 5.1 sound in the great room, floppy conduit-smurf tube-ENT-Elk buggle if you cut it to the right length, I ramble, for the wires that run the sprinkler valves from the timer in the garage. The ENT makes it really easy to run cables through the house after the walls are finished. Same thing for the cable/phone home runs. Another stretch of ENT from the basement to the garage attic for a HDTV antenna and home runs for a satellite dish if we decide to go that route in the future. All the video/data/phone cables will end up at a SMC-structured media center located in the utility/storage room in the basement. This will house the video splitters, network interfaces, routers and cable modem. 

The four-way inspection is scheduled for the 20th, insulation and sheetrock on the 24th. The builder gave us a closing date of March 23rd.