The Guest House: The Building Process Part II

Here is Part II of our guest house and garage that we began building in 2009. I thought I would have photos of the carpeting installed to post today... but it's still not installed.

Here's hoping Mr. Carpet Layer #2 still comes through for us!



House is wrapped and windows begin to go in.



View of back of house before wrapping and windows.



It was an exciting day when the stairs went in! You can see where small bathroom will be underneath the stairs.



Another shot of stairs taken from the garage door. Shows entire first floor of house.



Bay windows next to kitchen. These really helped define some character to the first floor.

 

More stairs. By now, they have put plastic between the house and garage to keep the heat contained in the house.

  

Electricity is run and recessed lighting installed throughout the house.
 

Electrical inspection was passed and work progresses... the heating and plumbing are going in now.
 

Flooring installed in upstairs bath after partial drywall and tub/shower is moved in.
 

Wall was removed in the bedroom to install the bath/shower into the bathroom.



Insulation in upstairs bonus room.



Another view of insulation. From this angle, the half door to attic storage space is seen along with the upstairs bath and bedroom. Stairs seen in the middle of the photo.

Drywall really changed the feel of the house! The rooms became very defined and actually felt larger than we thought they would.
 

Garages are insulated and drywall went up. Both garages are finished just like the interior of the guest house.



Drywall in upstairs bonus room.



Another shot of bonus room.
 

Upstairs landing. Bathroom straight ahead and bedroom to the left. Linen closet in the hallway and half door to attic on the right.
 

Taping the sheetrock.
 



More taping...



This is the inside of the upstairs attic room. There is a lot of storage room in here!
 

Texturing the walls...
 

Everything is pretty much done and walls are textured. Painting is next!



This is how the garage guest house looked for many months!



I will post Part III : The painting and exterior finishing later this week!

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The Guest House: The Building Process Part I

Part I
 
Since I began posting a few things about our guest house, I thought I'd also post a little bit about the house itself. Originally, it started out as a "Mother-in-law" house for my mother to live in. She had cancer and was living alone in Texas and we were hoping to move her to Iowa and come and live with us, but she didn't want to 'impose' on us. So hubby decided to begin building the garage/small house with the intention of moving my mom to Iowa. Our original plan included the two garages we wanted and a 1,000 sq ft one story home. However, my mom passed away even before we began building.

So we ditched the original plan and went with plan #2 which was a two-story house built into the back of the garages. Here is a short re-cap of our building process:

The Planning

In May of 2009, we began building a garage/guest house across from our home at the lake. We wanted to build just a garage that would hold all the odds and ends as well as our 24' pontoon boat. However, the zoning requirements for the lot required us to have an actual home. After much research, we found a "stock" plan online that was exactly what we wanted! It had a two-car garage as well as an "RV" garage and both garages faced the road. The house is located towards the back of the garages and is two stories.

For the most part, it was completed in the late summer of 2010. We are still waiting for the carpeting to be installed upstairs and landscaping will be done this summer.

The guest house inside is complete (well, except for the carpeting) but it is not yet furnished. I'm looking forward to decorating it and posting the process on my blog. More photos to come soon! Here are the guest house posts I have so far:

 The First Floor

 The Second Floor

   First Furniture Item Arrives!


The Floor Plan

This is the stock photo of the outside.

The floorplan for downstairs.

The upstairs floorplan

The Building Process

Land is being cleared for building process to begin

Plotting lines for the house

 

Footings dug and filled in with cement

Garage floors are poured

First walls to go up!



Bay window for kitchen table

 

More first floor framing



Tall "RV" garage -- this is where pontoon boat will be parked in the winter

2nd floor framing begins

Another view of the 2nd floor framing

Roof trusses going up

Roof is on!

I will post Part II : The interior building process later this week!

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