Bob Cook Homes

Hello, my friends...my annoying self is back with another episode of Love Under Construction, episode 24.

"Our love under construction took a deeper dive during our 2,000-mile cross country odyssey with our two furry copilots. Turns out uninterrupted family time is just code for learning your husband can identify every hunting site he ever visited while the dogs perfect their synchronized 'are we there yet' stares."

We pulled up to a HALL-latious family reunion, my first time facing Lonny's brother and the extended families in masse. I'm the newest branch on this beautiful family tree. No way they were going to shake this limb loose. The bond was effortless and instantly, I felt at home. Here is the 411 - 38 mouths to feed (over 5 days), many 4 generations photo ops, 6 houses rented, on 1 amazing lake in Arizona! 1 Scorpion (no bites), 1 tarantula, and 1 huge fat toad! Which is how I felt by the time it was all over. Many old stories were told and now I'm here to create better ones or at least funnier ones.

After a week of R & R, we are back! Welcomed back by the cutest twins EVER! Meet Adrian Jacob "AJ" and Robert Allan "Bobby" . Our two newest additions to our family! Healthy and Beautiful!

Alright Alright Alright, I know you are anxiously awaiting the news on the house...

The front entry exterior is ready for a coat of paint!

Our Fireplace is ready for Winter, Too Soon?

Our drop-zone is ready for some boots!

And of course, our patio is ready for the sunrise!

Cabinets are still work in progress but take a sneak peek at the best cabinets ever! Our custom super deep medicine cabinets! We will circle back on these, because they are simply amazing. Our trim carpenter, Bindrum Trim, does some of the most amazing workmanship I have ever encountered!

Enjoy the pics! See you next week!

Love Under Construction - Episode 22

Thank you for coming back, we are in week 22. Let's get started...

I'm tired and stressed out to the MAX!

Month 1-3: The Honeymoon Phase

You have signed the contract. You break ground. Walls are going up. Rare 70–80-degree temps allow for concrete walls to go up in the winter without a hitch. Christmas & New Years comes and goes by, feeling so extremely blessed! Then...

Month 4-5: Mid-Build Blues.

This is where the sparkle fades, the delays hit, and the true cost of your dream starts showing up uninvited. Decision fatigue kicks in hard.

Even if you budget well, something always costs more.

Month 5.5: Emotional dip; Current phase

This is the phase where many couples have their first real fight, hence the name "Love under Construction". But I don't really know how to fight. However, my dark side reared its ugly head! It's the GREY "Redhead" in me.🤣



The good news? Almost everyone who builds goes through this exact emotional arc. We have had issues no doubt, but for my sanity I have to put a positive spin on it. This week we had 2 issues that had me going crazy. Bob comes on the scene, explains the process and WHAM, it isn't at all what I thought.

Much ado about nothing. This is often the case. We, on the builder side, do this every day and some of our clients become unsettled over issues like this without realizing that there is a process and it just isn't finished yet. It isn't that our build is perfect, there is no perfect build. Construction is MESSY. There are a lot of opinions and tastes and likes and dislikes and not everything you imagine in your head is affordable or even possible sometimes. But we do our best to capture and create "the vision" on each build we do.

When the going gets tough, the tough go rock hunting...because nothing says 'I'm coping well with construction stress' like wandering a quarry in work boots, pretending I'm a pioneer. Bob has amazing vision, but better friends. A personal friend of his, let us take a huge load of Kansas boulders for a fraction of the cost. Look close at these boulders; the holes were formed many millions of years ago, when Kansas was just a body of water.

I wrapped up the week getting back into my comfort zone, I got to stain 50 16' car siding boards for patio ceiling. They go up in the next episode. Please come back!