I pulled up to the house this morning to find this gigantic crane parked on the front lawn, its massive arm perched over our roof. Now, I am certain that to those in the construction / heavy equipment industry, the crane is no big deal and safe as can be, but for me it was a little scary to see our house looking so vulnerable and fragile under that thing!
The crane was used to hoist a 900 pound steel beam right over the house (yikes!), then lower it down the back side of the house, where it will span the opening to our new basement family room. As scary as it was to think of that huge hunk of steel being lifted over our roof, it's reassuring to know that we now have a really solid support beam holding the back of the house up! (That's Tommy and Kevin on the left, confident under the newly installed beam.)
In parallel with the construction work at the job site, Raveen and I are starting to focus on some key aesthetic decisions. One decision we weren't expecting to be faced with so early(!) is the
exterior color scheme. While indeed the exterior painting will happen much later on, we need to order our windows
soon, and one of the choices on the windows is the exterior trim color. So while we don't need to pick all of the exact colors right now, we
do need to have a general scheme in mind so that we know which window trim color to order. White, or a darker color perhaps??? I'm planning to go out and tour some favorite neighborhoods this weekend with our architect, Chris... am hoping to be inspired!
