Jason & Lindsay's House

Final 534 Old Coleman Highway,

Ya'll enjoy, Love you DAD

Final Front Door

Final Kitchen

Final Great Room

Final Miranda's bedroom

Final Master Bath

Final Lindsay's Make Up Desk

Final Master Shower

Final Jason's Throne :)

The carpet is being laid

Final Outside

Final Outside

Final Outside

Final Outside

Thomas putting the final touches by hand on the apron around the house.  Thank you son, you did a great job!

Mondo using the rented skid loader to lay down and smooth the apron around the house.  Thank you one last time Mondo!

Jason spreading caliche

Jason spreading the caliche,

Thank you Mr. Gilbreth for the use of the skid loader.

Lindsay cleaning one last time, thank you honey, you did a great job!

Well, this story is just about ending right where it started.  The whole thing began with Jason pushing over a tree about 10 feet from where he is pictured here. 

With just the spreading of the caliche for the driveway and cleaning up inside the house Jason & Lindsay will move in Saturday October 30th, 273 days from the first day of construction.

Pictured here are a couple of shots of Jason burying the post for the mail box, 534 Old Coleman Highway.

We are almost there,

Here is the study and coat closet doors finished all the way out,

You can see it is taking shape and how wonderful it looks,  Lindsay you did a fabulous job with the colors.

Lindsay is filling and painting window sills, and door trim, GREAT job Lin,

Aaron pitches in to help with the baseboard.  Thank you Aaron for your contribution.

Thank you Mondo for helping with the trim,

The Carrillo's are in full swing.  They can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Pictured here is the beginning of the baseboards.  The doors are all trimmed.

His and Her sinks done,

Lindsay's make up station is finished.

The kitchen sink is finished, WOW that is pretty

Thomas and Jason work to install the kitchen sink,  nice job guys!

Mondo has a lot of fun taking leadership of our tile laying effort.  Thank you Mondo, it looks great!

Jason & Mondo installed a lot of the master bath jetted tub tile.  Great job guys!

For the first time we were able to lock down the building today.  Garage door, back door and front door.

Tile on Lindsay's make up desk in the master bathroom.

Thank you Uncle Shelton for the dishwasher

For about a month now we've been trying to get trying to get the walls to meet the ceiling in a straight line (white on top with earth tone on the walls).  It just goes to show you what paid professionals can do.

Many thanks to Scott Davis & Clayton Underwood for fixing our ceiling lines.  They look GREAT!

Mondo installs the doors

Cabinets are installed including the shelves.

Jason  & Mondo touch up paint where the walls meet the ceiling.

Finish electrical is finished.  Permanent electricity is ordered for September 21st.

The first cabinet was hung in the kitchen.

Well sense we began our little house building project there has always been a utility pole toward the front of the property that serves electricity to one of the neighbors.  It's the one they put our temporary service on.

There are 3 poles that go almost the entire 1000 feed down the north side of the property.  As it turns out there is not an easement and since the first pole is right smack dab in the front yard we asked them to remove it. :)

As apart of the process they are trimming up all the trees down the fence line so they can remove the old aerial service and trench the underground lines.

Thank you Carter for helping out! 

At 534 the painting is finished and part of the finish electrical has been done.  Jason finished putting in the soffit vents.

Well it has been one month but a lot has happened out at 534. 

We did all the mud tape and texture (no pictures because you can not see the results.)

Floor Cleaning

The first cabinet carcass for the kids bath is done.

Most folks don't know it,  but in the Jones' household there is always this appearance that I might be the risk taker, but in reality when rubber starts meeting road it is Melanie that will forge ahead.

For months Jason and I both have been afraid to light the fire because of all the things that might happen.

Melanie just said to heck with it and got up early, called the sheriff to get the burn okayed and got that sucker to burning.

It took 10 gallons of gasoline and over 25 dollars before she finally got it going.  Way to go honey! Thank you and I STILL LOVE YOU!

All we have left on the ceilings is the master bedroom area and garage.

It isn't going to be long before we will be mudding and taping.

Angel, Thomas and Candy do most of the laying while the girls help out by mixing mud and positioning the next set of bricks to keep the boys going.

Three year old Xavier is really the one in charge.

Thank you all for doing a conscientious job!

The Angel De Leon family is laying the brick and so far it sure looks good.  They were so nice, our windows were not furred out far enough so they installed the rowlock.

Thanks so much for boosting the shingles.

Here you can see Mondo and his brother Rick boosting the shingles.

This is always a blessed time because the building is about to become less vulnerable to the elements.

Here you can see Mondo placing the first piece of decking.

Boosting the trusses was done by Jason, Thomas, Arturo and Dane.  Thanks so much for you help, we would have had to go rent a crane without you.

It was so nice to have Jason's father come out and help.  Thank you Rudy for your hard work.  It was a big blessing for Jason to get to work on his house with his dad.

After a few days rest we had the lumber delivered and pre-cut the T's, corners and lintels for the wall framing.  Yea! we are finally out of the dirt.

Many thanks to Thomas for helping out, you made a bid difference.

It was a long hard battle with lots of delays from the weather but we finally made it.

534 has a slab; a good one. 

Thanks to everyone who contributed for your help!

These two pictures show the snow and what I fondly refer to as lake Lindsay.  Love you daughter :)

We hope everything will dry out enough for us to finish the foundation work and pour the slab by Thursday the 25th but there is ran forecasted for Wednesday.