almostemptynester- love the pics of your house! Looks amazing. My husband and I are thinking about building this plan but are still looking for land. would love to see more pictures as your house comes along. Thanks for sharing! :)

almostemptynester, Im an almost empty nester, as well, and we are looking at possibly building the Shook on our land in the PA countryside. I know you must be crazy busy, but I would love it if you kept us posted on the progress of your home. Looks like it is off to a great start! Hope your building experience is a happy one.

aliotto I'm more than happy to post photos here. I've put up a few in the Building a Home "It's March or whatever month how is your new building going/" Forum, but after a few weeks that forum becomes rather unwieldy because there are so many posts and you can't directly respond to a post. I'll post some in a few minutes as long as I can post here from my phone because everything is still on the phone

After lots of delays due to an incredible amount of snow and freezing temperatures, the framers were able to install a lot of windows and just about finish the roof yesterday. The weather looks great next week so we should have lots of progress!

The interior from the foyer looking toward the living room....

I love the wall of windows in the living room -- there's still plastic on the windows but the view is beautiful.

aliotto let me know if you have any questions if you are considering building this plan.

almostemptynester- love seeing your pictures! your house looks amazing. what square footage did you finally decide on?

almostemptynester...I was wondering how you feel about the amount of natural light you are getting in your house. This is a concern to me because I live in PA and I love a sunny house. We don't get enough of it around here! On the other hand, I love the porches....

BTW can someone tell me what Chilibeans is???

Aliotto -- Chilibeans is a Shook Hill -- she has a lot of pictures posted of it.

As far as natural light is concerned, I don't know quite yet because the house is still under construction but so far so good. However, I'm in New England and because of this, I decided to forgo the covered porch in the rear with the fireplace, although I LOVED this feature. Instead, our plan calls for an open deck with an outdoor fireplace. I thought this would be the best of both worlds and not make the living room too dark. There is another thread from GardenWeb where a helpful woman posted pics of her Shook Hill with the porch. She was in Georgia, or somewhere in the south and said that it does make the living room dark. If you do a search, you should be able to find it. The front porch for our new build is on the north side of the house -- I don't expect that much sun there anyway,, but this will affect primarily the dining room. I can let you know as our build progresses and take some photos of the sunlight if that's helpful.

leeandqueen -- I had the plans for Shook Hill modified slightly to shrink the square footage to just about 2900 -- it still seems like a rather big house for what will be two people most of the time but it'll be a great house to have grandchildren and visiting kids. Meanwhile, we can live on the first floor most of the time....

Thanks almostemptynester that is helpful

Aliotto it's actually this thread that has the photos of the living room with a back porch! Scroll up!

Almostemptynester, it's so great to see your pics! I'm so glad to have helped you along the way (I'm 2c2u...) and can't wait to see more pics, especially of the rooms you expanded. You may inspire me to trade my current Shook Hill for a modified one!

After we get through the Air Seal Test or whatever they call it, we can proceed full steam ahead with the blueboard/plaster etc... I will post pictures soon. I'm hoping they can get the kitchen in within a week or so. I'm so tired of the delays. I will be happy to post pics of everything, although we did scale down a little from the expanded size. It's really just the two of us most of the time. Thanks for sharing all your pics and info, Karen Brubaker aka 2c2u!

almostemptynester- how's your shook hill coming? we would love to see more pictures if you have time! Thx.

It's getting there!

I everyone! We are in Richmond Va and are looking at building the Shook Hill ! It will be our emptynester house as well. I could use some help in the way of pictures ! Anyone want to share theirs? I would be most grateful !

Cvazqu -- Sorry I've been busy with the house (what else!). I think I'm going to put a hutch there. I'll get you know if it looks okay there.

I have photos to share with you. What are you interested in seeing? Ours is almost complete and it really is a gorgeous house plan.

Everything! We've only been dreaming about this for 10 years! Perhaps kitchen first!

Did Almostemptynester finish her house? Loved the outside and really wanted to see it. Does anyone know?

Would love to see another pic of the exterior. Loved the sneak peak above of your porch and yellow siding.

Almostemptynester Your home looks beautiful! We are building a modified Stone Creek home and I was wondering if you would share your Great Room window sizes? Would appreciate it. Hope you are enjoying your new home. Would love to see additional photos. Thanks in advance. Hope you receive this note. Maria

(3) 20x62 with 24" transoms. Miastensrud -- Sorry I used to get notifications when this thread updated but haven't seen any. Have you started your building process yet? I will add updated photos soon, but I really need to find and charge a real camera with a wide angle lens in order to capture the house -- the phone camera is handy but I can't photograph the whole room.

Thanks for your response. Haven't started building yet; still tweaking the plan. We also have to sell our home in NY. Merry Christmas! Maria

When I re-read your comment it didn't make sense to me. Did you mean (6) 20 x 62" windows with 2' transoms? Thanks. Maria

3 sets of two windows -- They came attached together, but that is how the plan specified. Does that make sense?

Getting ready to build Shook Hill, love to see everyone's pics and ideas.

This is the front porch view where we plan to build our Shook Hill House..please share your pics.

Has anyone in Missouri built the Shook Hill House? I would love to see the house in person.

I all, We are in Richmond Va. Anyone build a Shook Hill near us?

We are empty nesters looking at building the Shook Hill. Has anyone built this house in the past 3 years? Would also love to hear from those of you who built in 2015. Any major changes you would make?

hi Shook Hill fans! Anyone willing to share pics of their finished home?

We just bought ten acres and are looking to build the Shook Hill. This thread has been amazing. Would love to see photos from recent builds.

Has anyone re-positioned the stairs in the house? I would love to see your ideas.

@shelby packer we made some modifications and moved the stairs to the front door and opened the dinning area

Nikki, what is your square footage?

2612 heated

@Nikki Daughtry - I love the modifications you showed! Do you have any pictures you'd mind sharing? I'm seriously considering this lovely plan and I'm so in love when the changes you made. I just can't ever tell how anything looks without pics lol. Thanks :)

@nikki daughtry would you be willing to share the layout of your second floor? Love what you did to the main floor.

@Nikki Daughtry I love what you did with your modifications. Would you be willing to share or discuss? Do you have any final pictures?