Beach House Progress

The whole beach house thing has been a bit of a whirlwind for us this year, but we are very excited about it. So that I can remember later on, here's the background story.

Around the first of this year, Mark and I were talking about goals and what we would like to do this year. He is crazy/obsessed with fishing and has said for the last couple years that one of the things that gets him through the year of long hours and hard work is looking forward to fishing in the summer. He really wanted to make a goal to spend the whole month of August as a family at the beach so that he could fish as much as possible, plus spend a lot of time with the family. We decided to start looking for a small house to rent at the beach for the month.

Mark mentioned to his dad what we had planned, and he said, maybe you could look for a bigger house so that they could stay down there with us (he's as into fishing or more so than Mark is). All this was still in the thinking process when we went to the beach with the whole Wilde family in the middle of February. It turned out that Mark's parents had been wanting to have a place to come to at the beach as well.

That weekend thoughts turned to action, and pretty soon, we were looking at houses in Rockaway "just for fun" (easy to do since Mark has his Realtor license). haha! After looking at a few houses, talk turned to building, then looking at lots..........yada, yada, yada......offer was placed the next weekend, and here we are! Building a beach house with Mark's parents.

Building started the first of May....

May 8th

Excavation and driveway in, foundation done.

Aspen loves going to the beach with Mark to check on the progress. Such fun to have Daddy all to himself!

May 20th
First floor framing in progress.


May 20th


May 28th
First and second floor framing done. Roof and dormer framing in progress.


May 28th

June 4th

Windows in, roofing half done, plumbing done, waiting on inspections in order to start siding.

Mark and Aspen are headed back to the beach again tomorrow. I'm so excited to see the updated progress! We are hoping to have it finished by August. We will see...