Signed contract on my latest upgrade today

Signed contract on my latest upgrade today

a new garage to park my car in

NEW HOUSE !

I'm excited. the bummer is the 7-10 months of waiting.....

the cool part is i'll finally have a dedicated room for my home theater addiction. I have a professional theater designer laying out the HT design as i type. sweet....

Outside in that sand..

sounds like some rallying fun

wow thats awsome...congratulations

be like me, and go take pix of the progress everyday. i got about 5 gig's of pix of our house being built.

oh and Congratulations.

Wow! It's so nice to have a house. I am sick of renting apartments...... :twisted:

Congrats!

Congratulations!!! I wish I have my own garage too

What you do to make it a lil more fun is...Take a snapshot everyday that some progress has been made from the Same Exact spot so that you can make an Animated Gif of it
from start to finish! that would be SOOO COOL! Nice lot by the way it's pretty huge!

I dont have any idea how to make an animated gif, but a pic from the same spot at each step sounds fun. there is a tree across the street that will make an excelant refrence point.

yup just make sure that when your taking the picture to stand in the "EXACT" same position u were in the last time =) It's a fun way to build fond memories...especially when seeing your own house being built =)

I have a program called "unfreeze" I got it off the net. Its very small. All you have to do is save your pics in GIF format as stills. Then drag and drop them into the program window, and hit the animate button. It then links them all together and lets you set the rotation speed, as well as if it loops or plays just once. I used that to make my pic on my posts.

unfreeze eh? cool ill look for that.

some progress has been made.....

thanks for the GREAT idea.

and heres the progress, animated by your suggestions. i have a photo location painted on the street (my original photo spot will be somones living room before my place is finished), and will contunue to update as the project progresses.



heres the new version of the website i have up for the homes progress (more pics for those who care

My new place

and dont miss what will be the jewel in the crown, my new HT:

My new HT

another 5-8 months and itl be done....

Congratulations!! now you can work on your car in that garage..

But it's nice to have a landlord when something breaks... when that happens I have to pull out the 'ole wallet...

Rich,

Congrats on the new house. I bought a "new" house (well, technically it's really old) last summer and it's been both a joy as well as a pain-in-the-derrier!

I bought a bare lot this jan. and have split emotions on building my house (hopefully early next year) one side it will be great having my own place. The other side I will be poor with house payments. I am waiting till next year to have 20% down so i dont pay pmi.

Congrats on your house! I can see what I am going to be looking forward to!

get your lender to write it 80/20 if thats a stopping point.

UPDATE: getting ready to run some 5000 feet of wire. RG6, cat5, CCTV, security, whole house audio, and theater room audio.



and here are the newest links to see pics of the work in process:

heres the house
heres the HT

curent estimate puts completion sometime in the fall. my fingers are crossed for thanksgiving in the new place