Flashback - The Land

Our journey started with the land, can't build a house if you have no where to put it, right? We purchased 11.5 acres in the country in North Carolina. We had trouble finding a spot on the land that would perk, we finally found a good spot toward the back of the property, about a half mile off the road.


This is the area we had cleared for the home site. The shot is looking toward the driveway from our "Mulch Mountain", don't worry, I'll get to that in a moment.


This is a shot from the driveway looking back at the origin of the last picture. You can see the "Mulch Mountain" to the right.

I couldn't resist, here is my son Ryder on top of the "Mulch Mountain". We had the seller of the property clear our home site, and he was kind enough to mulch all of the trees that were removed. Of course, that kindness cost extra! The pile of mulch was about 25 feet high, and of course, they put it in the wrong place, that was where my workshop was supposed to go! This should have been an omen for things to come.

This picture is a shot from further down our driveway. This was late in the year and the tree were starting to thin out. It is really nice in the spring, summer and early fall, there is a very nice canopy that covers the driveway.

That is about it for now, in the next post, I will go over the beginning stages of building the house.

Thanks everybody!

Welcome

Welcome to the Ethereal Woodshop, in this blog, I hope to chronicle the difficult journey my family has already started to build a modern farmhouse in the country. We have already started this journey, but we still have a long way to go. Basically, we picked the plans, bought some land and had the shell of the house built. From there, we took over and put in a lot of sweat equity in order to keep the costs down, and frankly, we wanted to make sure it was done right.

We did just enough work to the house to be able to move into it, and then proceeded to fix up our old house in Chesapeake, Va so we could sell it. We managed to sell the old house, and now it is time (After a short hiatus) to start work on our new house and get it finished the way we want it.

I will be finishing up trim, building cabinets and built ins, wainscoting and architectural elements. So please sit down with a cup of coffee (Or any of your favorite beverages) and join us on our journey to finish this new house and maybe a few rants and raves along the way.

Thanks everyone, I hope you enjoy our blog.