A House In A Field
The story of a house. In a field. And how it gets there.
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Dig Safe
Looks like we’ve had a visit from the Dig Safe fairies. Can’t see it in this photo, but the writing essentially reads “no electricity, no gas, no water, no sewer.” Yes — that just about covers it.
Read MoreDifferent Dash. Way different.
It’s official. It took seven tries, but the white smoke rose gracefully out of the Freeport Town Hall today. Our new address will be* : 7 Dash Landing The “7” is just a wonderful coincidence. The “Dash” was a privateer ship…
Read More“It’s amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw.” – Damien Hirst
Last week’s meeting involved a certain amount of house “repositioning” at the site. The plan has a few tweaks and we wanted to see how they looked. We’ve also grown to appreciate the long view of the Harraseeket River from the…
Read MoreFirst Set of Plans
Here’s the first set of drawings. We’ve made tremendous progress over the last couple of weeks, but it’s amazing how little the core design concept has changed since this first review meeting in early October. Before jumping in, it’s worth…
Read MoreSeriously, who’s making these decisions?
Names rejected by Town Hall yesterday : “Bartol Field Way” “Porter’s Field Way” Names rejected this morning : “Farm House Way” “King’s Landing” Names rejected this afternoon : “Extra Blue Way” (There’s nothing even remotely close to this name in…
Read MoreThis might be the hardest part…
We’ve now been presented with what might go down as this project’s biggest challenge. What do we name the driveway? It’s a fairly simple process. The town gave us a list of current street names and we’re to submit our…
Read MoreToday we talked about North Jay Granite.
All we can say is “wow.” This project started with a lot of handwringing and teeth gnashing about a start date. A builder package that starts in the fall? Work with an architect and hope for a spring date? And “hope” was truly…
Read More“Adventure is just bad planning” – Roald Amundsen
At the advice of a boatload of people (we’re sticking with the Amundsen theme), we met with a Land Planner this week. We think our goals for Bartol Field have been fairly consistent from the beginning : Find a nice…
Read MoreKaren, Karl or Darrell?
This week’s adventure involves the driveway. Deb met with four different contractors to get their thoughts (and estimates) over the last five days to determine the best route from Point A. to Point B. As you know, the Town of…
Read MoreGreat Expectations
One of the questions we’ve asked ourselves since making this journal public is “how much and when?” While we want to record our progress, we also want to respect the decision making process And today was definitely one of those…
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A House In A Field 