Author: Pablo

We have found someone to make a faux-round door for us and Bella created a rendering of the look of the front of the house. Very whimsical!

The foam that helps form the shotcrete is being installed and there is a lot of work on the retaining wall in front of the building. At the same time, fixture b...

Last Monday, we assembled and raised the seven steel I-beams. They bolt onto brackets we placed in the slab. We started tying rebar across the beams: a tedious ...

Last week, the slab was poured in two days. It was colored tan with a powdered color hardener and then stamped to look like wood. Later on, it will get more col...

This one shows the plumbing installation and the slab sandwich.

  The slab sandwich starts with a plastic vapor barrier on the native soil followed by a layer of gravel that acts as a capillary break. Above the gravel i...

Here, you can see the forms for the footings as well as a bonus stem wall that will surround the back of the shell. The stem wall was Frank’s idea and pro...

  In one week, Frank, Israel and Nick finished grading the site. Now, they begin work on laying out the foundation.  

Two years since the first post, we finally got our building permit and today we broke ground on this project.