{"id":3488,"date":"2009-07-21T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/day-in-the-life-of-building-a-house\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T20:12:40","slug":"day-in-the-life-of-building-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/day-in-the-life-of-building-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Day in the life of building a house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Builder wakes me up to explain why an arch in the entryway won&#8217;t work as he&#8217;s explaining to a framer how to fix ceiling error above stairs (yikes). <\/p>\n<p>Study plans all morning to prepare for meeting with electrician (walk through the house a thousand times turning on and off lights\/plugging things in in my head).<\/p>\n<p>Memo to light fixture guy that we need 4 cans AND light kit in study&#8230; still need to pick out guest bath, girls bath light fixtures as well as sconces going up the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure the sole plate is attached to the slab with anchor bolts (of course our builder is on top of all of this, just need to confirm so I&#8217;ll know without a doubt in my mind how he did it).<\/p>\n<p>Get 15 pages of cabinet design prints to proof and approve for Tuesday meeting with cabinet guy before he starts cutting the wood.&#160; Heights, depths, widths, how many, what type of wood, what type of trim, molding, and where&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Note to self &#8211; we need eyeball cans in living room and master hallway, go over niche heights one more time, Noelle&#8217;s closet door to open to inside, both outlets need to be down in laundry room (changed my mind)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Look through BMC West magazine and pick out stair components &#8211; Newels, metal balusters, base color, handrail, and starting fitting<\/p>\n<p>Obtain EXACT TV dimensions, speaker dimensions, and all the box components for built-in shelves in living room (none of which we have bought yet).&#160; Work with Mike on this until after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Think of several things I forgot to put on my list from today as I&#8217;m feeding Anna Kate, too tired to go write any of them down.&#160; Pray for all this hard work to pay off in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Go to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Give in and wake up at 5AM to write down said forgot things from yesterday because every time I awakened in the night I was practicing memorization techniques to try to remember everything until morning came so I never really could get to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not so much peaches and cream right now, but we&#8217;ll make it!&#160; :)&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Builder wakes me up to explain why an arch in the entryway won&#8217;t work as he&#8217;s explaining to a framer how to fix ceiling error above stairs (yikes). Study plans all morning to prepare for meeting with electrician (walk through the house a thousand times turning on and off lights\/plugging things in in my head). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}