Well, here we are catching up finally on the web, for the family blog it has been a few years since we updated anything here. We sold our place in Longmont almost 1.5 years ago now and have been trying to find a new house up in the mountains near the town of Nederland. After patiently looking at houses for sale, we ended up finding 2 acres of land that back to National Forest and decided to build our own place. We started with the process back in 2012 in May....finally closed on February 11th and started cutting trees February 12th, broke ground February 18th!
Here is the story...with pics and videos of the process as we have gone through it. Thanks much to Matt McDonald at Review Development for helping us over 8 months design and finalize our house project and to Jeff Fruth at Fruth Construction for taking the project on and working with us each day. This is a huge project, but well worth the final product and wait. Enjoy! John, Amy and Madeline.
Here Jeff and Amy are looking over the staked area for the house and trees we have to cut down. Even after you mark a few, there are always more angles, and other items you start to think about.
East Side and Front (south) views
West Side and Back (north) views.
Front View
Rear View and Garage front
Looking over the house site--hard to believe in 6 to eight months there will be our house here! Lots of nice Douglas Firs on the property and a few large Ponderosa, plus some small Aspens. Plenty of nice rock too all over. Here in the distance, Madeline is assisted by Grandma in putting a log in the Sawyers truck. She wanted to help out after she saw them loading up all of the logs.
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