Five months and this is where we're at. The biggest changes since last time are: The building has a roof, the porch now has a roof and the steel siding is starting to go on. The windows and doors are ordered.
The biggest hold up has been the stone. All along we weren't sure if we even wanted stone, then Rod decided he does. Which is great. I could have gone either way on this one. The problem is that he knows I need to pick it out in order for optimal marital happiness and I need time to make decisions. This isn't anything new; we are both terrible decision makers. Hence, the three year period between the beginning of this project until now. I think we're getting closer to having that decision made, finally! You can see in the above pictures that there isn't much room at the bottom of the siding for stone. The reason for this is that we want it to stay low to the ground so it sort of looks like a stone foundation. It will go around the barn and house both. We will use the same stone for the fireplace. Below is the inspiration for the stone. It comes from the current season of Fixer Upper. You can see more pictures of this stone on the Magnolia website here.
Also going on at the farm, we are just finishing up our Christmas vacation. On our first day of vacation, I stopped to take some picture. Notice the temperature...
For this poor girl, the struggle was real that morning. Rod always assures me that the cattle love cold temperatures. However, he said that at -10 he even noticed that they were little stressed. But, we live in northern Indiana. It might be in the 40's in a few days.
On another note...the best news that I have stumbled across recently, concerning this project, that is, is that I think I have found the flooring of my dreams. I saw it online before but dismissed it because the nearest location is in Chicago. And even though a girl would go to great lengths to secure the floor of her dreams, I really couldn't tell from their website pictures if it really was the flooring of my dreams. And then, a miracle...I was on Pinterest, shocking, and this woman blogged about her new floor and voila, it was THAT floor. You can see her blog and pictures here and below. The floor comes from here. After a little more research, this company will ship the flooring; however, I might muster up the courage to ask a certain retired couple for a huge favor and a road trip. They have been very persistent in asking how they can help, after all. The thing about this floor, to me, it looks like an old barn floor and it's exactly what I've been searching for and it's more reasonably priced than the other engineered floors we've priced.
That's all for now. Thanks for following.
