A House In A Field

Category: Home Building


Remind me again – who did that?

It seems like most of our discussions about Dash Landing start with a version of this question.  “Who did the tile?”  “Who designed the house?”  “Who picked out that fabulous green?” The answers to those questions and many more are…

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Team Photo

We had lots of awesome people help pull this place together and a few of them swung by this morning for a team photo. That’s our general contractor — John Rousseau — in the lower right corner.  The crew from…

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“Everything OK up there?”

Our lack of activity on the blog this week triggered some sort of emergency warning system today. In short — “yes, we’re OK.”  Especially if a week of cleaning, schlepping, packing, unpacking and desperately trying to stay awake past 7:00pm…

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“Comcastic” is also a synonym for “bite me.”

As we’ve said on a number of occasions, luck has been with us on Dash Landing, especially with the trades.  We’d have a tough time naming a crew or even an individual that wasn’t great to have on site.  John,…

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“I’m not even going to bother to write a report…”

After eight months of design work and eight months of construction, today’s final “punch list” inspection ended up redefining “uneventful.” We invited Rob up to Freeport to do the inspection with us.  Not only is he far more experienced at…

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And it’ll never be this clean again…

Today was “Cleaning Day” for John and the crew. There were a few trades finishing up, but most of the day was spent making Dash Landing sparkle from top to bottom.  Cleaning windows, dusting every spot imaginable, peeling protective stickers,…

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Ooooh, shiny!

Just sitting around waiting for the polyurethane to dry…

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The Utah cabinet.

For years, we had relatives in Salt Lake City, Utah.  While it would be “bad family form” to call them our favorites, it would be equally unfair not to say that they were high on the list. Most winters included…

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Small things making a big difference…

Take a look at the photo below.  There’s a small change underway making a HUGE difference in the house in terms of appearance, light, etc. We’re definitely not going to miss the window stickers…

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People from away are now reading the blog.

This post found its way to Barn Light Electric and end up as this post. Go figure.

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