This week Javier, Filimon and the guys from JB Concrete finished forming the walls for the concrete to be poured on the 23rd (next Monday). Take notice of the tall “pole”. That will be the “tree” wrapped in bark which will serve as the center of the spiral staircase leaving up to the top of…

It’s always exciting to see the concrete being poured! This week, the footings were poured. JB Concrete did an incredible job with this house- thank you guys! As you can see from the photos, we poured the concrete into the footing forms at the beginning of the week, then the guys started to frame the…

This week the house started to take shape- literally! Thanks to Javier and Filimon from JB Concrete and their incredible team for all of your help. These guys turned a bunch of dirt into the beginning of a home. This week was spent laying out the forms, then placing the rebar inside the forms to…

Now that the septic tank has been installed, we can move forward with the foundation. This week we focused on final site prep and relocation of dirt (piled on the property), to allow the survey to be completed, which marks the perimeter walls of the house. Thank you to Eastside Surveying! Now that the dirt…

Grading continues on the site. This week was a biggie as the septic tank was installed. Since it’s located on the east side of the house, it had to be installed prior to starting the foundation for the house, as we won’t have access to that side once the foundation is in place. Thank you…

Part of the excavation is bringing the utilities to the site. This week we dug the trenches to bury the conduit for the internet, as well as water and electricity. In order to dig this, our beautiful gravel driveway had to be dug up and right now we have a lot of mud. The good…

May 8th – Received our building permit! This week we began the site preparation and preliminary grading. The site is naturally sloped from the west to the east, and from the north to the south. Dreaming Bear Retreat will be slab on grade for the primary suite on the northwest portion of the property, and…

Harvesting, Milling & Drying Our Own Lumber Sustainability is so important to us and we wanted to have the smallest carbon footprint in creating this home. Due to local county fire prevention regulations, we were required to cut down trees in or near the footprint of the new build.  These trees were lovingly harvested from…