Category: Home building

Yeah... you may have noticed I can't keep up with the blog posts. Obviously a lot has happened in the past 6 weeks and much of our time has been spent at the house - sometimes just observing, sometimes planning, and lately even some working. We are down to [supposedly] the last two weeks of… Continue reading Punaro Glen Construction: Mid-July →

May was the Month of Drywall. To be fair, we were warned ahead of time that once we hit the drywall stage it would seem like things were going to slow down. And that was before COVID-19. The entire drywall process took just over 5 weeks - two weeks and change to hang it and… Continue reading Punaro Glen Construction: Beginning of June →

Time flies when... uh... you're stuck at home due to the Coronavirus. Somehow I've managed to go nearly 3 months without posting an update here. There have been the occasional Instagram pics if you're following along there, but I'll bring everyone up to speed here too. We had about a long lull in January/February where… Continue reading Punaro Glen Construction: Some time in 2020…. I think →

Lighting fixtures are something we've been buying since before we actually moved out of our last house. Amanda would stalk LampsPlusOpenBox.com for great deals on lights we liked. I can't even calculate how many thousands of dollars we probably saved on lights by taking our time and buying things that came up on that site… Continue reading Punaro Glen Construction: Lighting and Technology →

You know what's great about getting early snow when you're building a house on top of a hill in ski country? Nothing. Progress slowed down considerably since last update, although there were still some key accomplishments. #1 - Windows all got installed: #2 - Roofing all got installed. We were told that they couldn't get… Continue reading Punaro Glen Construction: Mid-December →