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Our Third Week of Wall Building The Project: A 2,163 square foot house utilizing dry stack concrete block construction with a central courtyard and based on the Spanish colonial-era missions in San Antonio. The Challenge: Can a forty-something married couple design and build an attractive, efficient and mostly paid-for house while remaining sane, solvent and married? With no actual prior construction experience? Hmmmmm - let's check in on our Contestants and see how they're doing... |
| One of our small innovations - pouring odd-size blocks in place. A little duct tape on the sides, a bit of construction paper on the bottom, add a little concrete and problem solved! Necessity is the mother of intervention, I always say... |  |
| These windows will be over the kitchen sink, looking out towards the water and the driveway. Notice the lintel over the window runs into the end of a glued into place quarter block laying on its side. Jigsaw and crossword puzzle fans will do very well with this construction method. |  |
| More of our bargain bin windows going up in the living room. |  |
| Most of this week is taken up with fitting windows into place and then leveling all the blocks around them. Here, we have two half-moon windows (we got a set of three) which are in the southwest corner in the master bedroom. |  |
| Looking across the courtyard from the guest wing towards the master wing. |  |
| Want to see the floor plan? Want to e-mail us? | |
| Next week's installment: Are we there yet? Click HERE |
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