The DJC did a nice write up on the project.

we dropped off the first bit of wood, reclaimed from the old house, to be re-sawed by creative woodworking.

Dustin got a fancy new phone which he’s going to try to post more regular updates with. Here’s the first:

We took the weekend off from our normal construction process and showed Sam Adams, the mayor of Portland, around the house. He was surprisingly well versed in green building practices.


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Our friend Tara brought over her eighth grade class for a little tour of the house. The class was kind enough to send a bunch of thank you cards, we thought we’d post some of them for you all to see (click on the images to see the originals).

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So we’ve been making some upwards progress the past few weeks. My dad, Kyle and myself have the steel ‘skeleton’ up for the stairway; we’ll be putting plywood (leftover from the subfloor and roof) stair treads on initially and then later, as construction nears completion, we’ll replace them with treads made of the old 2x lumber (salvaged from the original house) that we’ll laminate up into one piece.