New Oregon Home Build After 1 Year This month marks the one year anniversary from when we moved in to our new Oregon home. We are settled in, but have continued to have many projects around the house; one of which is the mudroom. We originally had priced for cabinets and a drop zone area…
End of Summer and Beginning of Fall in New Oregon House We’ve been in our house for about ten months now and no walls have fallen down! We spent much of the summer doing things around the outside of the house while we had good weather. Early in the summer we did our major landscaping…
How We Modified the Mt. Rainier Plan from Adair Homes When we first started looking into building a home we looked at a variety of builders, from totally custom builders to production builders. We talked about what we wanted in a house and started looking at floor plans online. With a custom builder you have…
Adair Homes Customer Feature We have been featured on the Adair Homes website. They have used a really neat slider tool that allows you to see before and after photos. By clicking on the tool you can slide it to the left and right to see the two photos side by side. One set of…
Video of Front of New Oregon Home Being Built One year ago the foundation on our new house was started. The house was finished in about six months from foundation. There have been a few projects that we wanted to do after we moved, but since the weather has been nice we’ve been working on…
Adair Homes New Home Projects It’s been a busy couple of weeks, so I haven’t been able to do a post recently. We have been busy working on our yard and mudroom. We put a bench in the mudroom and plan to put shelves and partitions for a locker type feel. The irrigation in the…
Making a Warranty Claim with Adair Homes We have our first warranty issue. We have been in our house for about three months now and most things have been working properly. The first issue that has come up is that the door from the mudroom has fallen off. It’s a little surprising that the hinges…
Featured Homeowner Interview with Adair Homes Thank you to Adair Homes for featuring us on their blog. We were intereviewed a few weeks ago by Adair Homes; discussing tips on building with Adair Homes. Some of our answers were edited and combined with another interview, so here are the original answers to our interview. 1)…
Construction Loan Refinance Although there are plenty of projects to do before the house is complete (let’s be honest…the projects are never ending for any homeowner.), refinancing the construction loan feels like it ends the building process. A while back I discussed different types of financing for construction. The type of loan we used was a…
Video of Phase II Mt Rainier Plan During our pre-construction meeting we were given a homeowners guide to construction from Adair Homes. The handbook has helpful tips for the construction process. With construction nothing goes exactly as planned, but the handbook is a good overview of what to expect and things you can do to…
