Welcome

Welcome to my home building blog, where you can keep track of our build.  Or our sanity level.


A little background - we live in a nice house that I like a lot and never imagined moving from.  And yet we are building a new home a mere 3 blocks away.  I'll get into the reasons (or excuses) later.


The title of the blog is a play on "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", a 1946 novel written by written by Eric Hodgins and illustrated by William Steig and the movie of the same name made in 1948 starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy.  I highly recommend both especially if you, too, are contemplating building a house.  


We are currently owners of the lot, and have preliminary floor plans done.  The real work is yet to begin.


Read on!