Our 15 minutes of Department of Commerce fame
Our house is currently featured on the Minnesota Department of Commerce facebook page!
Grass!
The grass in back has sprouted! (See previous post for more information on our sustainable landscaping plan and how this no-mow fescue...
Landscape beginnings
Last week we got the kitchen garden nearly finished. We decided to keep the front wall down to 2’ and add latticework on top to hide the...
Sound insulation
The insulators came and did the inner stud wall on the main floor. What a mess! Noisy, dusty. During the installation I escaped to the...
Dragonfly season
The guys came on Friday to work on the patio and front stoop, but they didn't pour the concrete. Mostly they just moved aggregate from...
Inside the walls
Here are two views of the wall section Tim made for me. Working our way from the outside in, in the top photo the black strip at the...
Preliminary test results are in: 0.3 ach50
The big news is that we had a preliminary blower door test done this morning. All sorts of people from Cocoon, which is doing the...
Tour and open house (first of many!)
We are getting very excited about this week's project tour and open house! We'll be checking out this highly sustainable single family...
Let there be light!
View out of the window that will be next to the "kitchen table" when all is done. This window was installed today. "Let there be light!"
