de Jong Dream House

Just got a call from our contractor about the official HERS score for our house. The  preliminary score  - based on the actual readings - w...

We just got our HERS score and Energy Star levels back and they are better than what we had anticipated. Our home engery rater (George T...

One of the (many) reasons we chose Charis as our builder is that we were able to see many, many of the homes they built during open houses ...

As part of our busy morning at the new house yesterday, we did our closet walk-through with Les from Top Shelf Closets. I felt a little unp...

We haven't posted a lot recently mainly due to a lack of time in decision making processes, travel and health issues, but the progress o...

This is a bit of slow season in our build as the electrical/plumbing/HVAC finishes up. There's been a little bit of insulation blown in...

When we first started dreaming about building, we spend many hours touring houses: the Parade of Homes, open houses and model homes. If i...