Roofing and rainbows

The roofing on the water side of the house is done – WOOT! Good thing Brian has overcome his fear of heights, this is one tall and steep roof!  Choosing the roof was tough – it’s one thing that you definitely want to get right! After much debate, we finally decided on the Rustic metal shingle from Classic Metal Roofing Systems Canada and the colour is Vermont Slate. It’s a nice greyish-blue that works perfectly with the grey frames around the skylights.

The weather on Monday as beautiful, so I went for a walk along the cliffs to see what the house looks like from a distance. And because I just felt like walking along the cliffs because it was a gorgeous sunny day :-)

There’s our house!

There were some really cool rainbows happening on the waves. Well, technically I guess they’re prisms, but rainbows works better with roofing ;-)

I can’t believe how lucky we are to call this beautiful place home!

Build journal – The garage roof is done!

Yikes, just realized that my last build update was when we finished shingling the garage back in June. Lots to catch up on, starting with the garage roof.

Right from the start, we knew that we wanted a metal roof on our garage and house. Our original colour choice was antique bronze, but then we found out last fall that the colour was discontinued. GAK! But things worked out fine, because we decided to go with a slate blue instead, which looks awesome! As usual, we started with the back of the garage….

Then moved to the front. I say “we”, but the roof was all Brian. I’m too afraid of heights to go up that high. So YAY Brian!

All done!

The concrete floor in the garage is being poured this week. Then we need to build and install the stairs up to the second floor, choose and install the garage doors, and fill in the screw holes and add spacers to the trim. And then the garage will be DONE!

Pretty excited that the garage is almost finished, but even more excited that the house is really underway! That’s up next :-)