![]() ![]() We spent the past two summers living in the Airstream and a canvas tent annex to plan the home, and now the construction is really happening. In the process, we’re building on my family heritage and creating something for our kids’ future. It’s our desire and midlife project to stake a claim in this particular corner of Colorado, which always made us happy and felt like home, by constructing a farmhouse-style two-story house. We intend to live here half the year, May through October (if we can make two-state living work financially and logistically, which is still an “if”), perhaps year round after retirement. It’s not intended to be a luxury second home for vacations, like the monstrous big-log homes that sit vacant most of the year in the ski village. (We took this photo last autumn, following an early dusting of snow sadly, Wilson Peak has hardly any snow on it this season due to the light winter and drought conditions.)Ībout six weeks have passed since we transitioned from our Bay Area home to here, where three years ago we decided to leverage our resources to purchase this place and build a home. The beloved, rickety old barn on the lower part of our property, with Wilson Peak in the background. So we moved the satellite dish last week to another side of the property, creating yet another strand of electrical cords and hoses that crisscross the land to support a funky temporary infrastructure while the house gets built. A few weeks ago, we topped the outhouse with a satellite dish in a seemingly never-ending and expensive quest to secure reliable Internet service-and it worked great for about a week, until new leaves on the surrounding aspen trees grew in, and the seasonal leafy green blocked the signal. We moved the outhouse from lower on our property, where it had sat next to an old barn for the better part of the 20th century, and outfitted it with water filtration equipment and telecommunications gizmos we need to live here (the kind of stuff that will go in our basement utility room when the house is ready). Our Airstream, where we daily experience “tiny house living,” is flanked by flatbed trucks loaded with materials, earth-moving equipment, mounds of dirt, rows of trenches, our dusty Subaru wagon and GMC truck, our ATV, the barn we built last summer and its two horses, and our son’s skateboard ramp-and in the center of it all, a rectangular concrete home foundation where workers are starting to install the floor joists.Īt the turn in the driveway, a historic yet high-tech outhouse stands next to an industrial porta-potty, awkwardly stuck side by side like family members from different generations. The stripes of snow on the mountains melted by mid-May. This is how our property looked when we arrived on May 7, showing earth-moving equipment prepping the homesite for the foundation our Airstream and barn stand on the edge of the construction zone in the background.
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