Porch Steel. Garage walls start to go up.

There's a pretty heavy layer of snow on the ground and the garage walls are going up.  To refresh your memory, the garage will be a three car.  Maybe we should have opted for 4 car, but the width of the build site wouldn't have supported it.  It's split between a two car door and a single car door with a difference in depth.  The depth of the two car door area will be 23' and the single port will be 3' shorter at 20'.  This should be enough room.

 Here's the two car width door and the single car port on the right.  You can see the rear entry door on the left.

 Since there's such little space around the sides of the house, including the complications of elevation changes, we've opted for a rear garage door in the single car port.  That way we can move large things to the back yard.

 The full height of the wall scaffolding is already installed and ready for more courses.  I think the garage door opening will be 9' since we're going to have a curved door opening.  The sides will be 8' in height.

 The front porch steel was also installed as well as most all of the first floor LiteDeck.

 A wrap around porch will be a nice feature on our house.  It will be 8' deep so there's enough room for some seating.  Because of this porch, it's debatable on whether or not we'll need gutters on the main house.  Any rain water falling will already be 8' from the foundation and it would be to not have to clean all the pine needles.
This corner of the house will have a turret on the second floor that partially floats above the wrap around porch.  The wrap around porch flares into a circle to accommodate this so we'll have some more room here.   I imagine this is where I'll be waiting when the kids are old enough to come home later than curfew.

 Another nice feature of the porch is that it's going to be so high off the final grade.  We're planning on keeping as much forest as we can so this view will have our "front" yard.  There are some houses visible through our forest in the next court over, but only during the winter time.

 Here's where the porch wraps around to the great room.  There will be a single swing door that enters the great room here.  We're not planning on having a stair to reach ground level here but maybe it will be annoying enough to walk all the way around.

 Here's the backyard shot of the back of the garage.  You can see the exterior door on the left and the gap of the rear garage door.  I'm a little worried about the mass of wall in between the doors and we'll need to have a nice landscaping plan to mask it.  We've thought about having high windows here, but finally opted against it when we saw the current proposed window estimate.  I'll have to make a post about the windows.

 Looking into the garage rear wall.  The plastic ICF webbing is kind of visible here.  I'm standing in the rear garage door opening.

Driveway shot.  I can almost imagine what the house will look like driving up.  It's starting to get exciting!

A little bit more, a little bit more

First floor subfloor laying is continuing.  A bit from the midline beam to the front of the house has been laid.

 The study and most of the front foyer has been placed.  Just the dining room, kitchen, and mudroom left!

 A shot in the basement from the workout room looking forward.  They brought some fill sand in and might need more.  The walkout was large enough to drive a small front end bucket loader through.  You can see they added about a footings worth of sand.

 A little damage was incurred to the elevator shaft ICF.  It's fine since it's an interior wall.

 This is the corner of the house where the mechanical room will be.  You can see the first walkout on the right.  In between the two will be a bathroom, but that will not be finished with the completion of the house.

 A lot of the snow was covered by the sand.  Soon this will be a nice insulated cooler.

 Storage room and theater.

 Looking forward from the workout room.  It's funny, when I'm standing there, it doesn't feel big, but I know it is numerically.  It's a mind trip.

 Looking down into our hole.

 Here's what it looks like standing on the front porch.  Beautiful sunny winter day.

 There will be a window in that end gable looking right at that huge white pine.  Couldn't be happier with the garage view.

Looking at the workout room walkout from the woods.