de Jong Dream House

Long ago, when Niels and I were talking about our dream house and furnishings, he reminded me that in our storage room we had the dining ro...

I've been a bit under the weather this week and not getting to the house every day. We did manage to drive by on Friday and I was quit...

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 Niels and I were looking at model homes, we often stopped to admire what we thought was a pretty stone walkway or patio. It wasn...

Yesterday we had a great turn-out for our Dusty Shoe Open House. Between 5:45pm and 8pm we had a steady stream of guests. We handed out litt...

Like most naive first time home builders, Niels and I discussed everything detail we could think of before signing off on the "final...

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

First of all, happy 49th monthaversary to my lovely wife... Love you!. So, that marital duty performed; on with the show... Today is one o...

Remember that little post saying we were going to announce the winner of our 'kitchen cabinet contest' the next day. Well, we kind o...

We're baaaacccckkk! ;-) Not a lot of visual progress this week. The crews have been busy on the inside of the house and the plumbing and...