We bought 30 acres last June. We broke ground in fall 2007. Our home is a Timber frame home, and (hopefully) the last home we build! (Although, it has been an awesome experience to watch it go up: it literally "rose up" from the ground by using a large crane to raise the timbers(. Inside, all the rough sewn timbers are exposed. We will have no carpeting in the home, we picked rustic hickory floors for our room and the office and the rest of the house will be done in porcelain tile with epoxy grout (can you guess why?!!!) We have radiant heat throughout, so the floors will be comfortable on paws and feet! My bath has a beautiful  pass through fireplace in it that warms the whelping room just on the other side of it. We are quite excited with our choices and can hardly wait to see the finishing touches as they happen in the next few months. We are hoping we have reached a break in this nasty winter weather so we can really swing into full gear!

The kennel building is 120X60. It has radiant heat as well and oh it feels so good in there! We have a training room and plenty of puppy rooms, a grooming room and kennel runs. I learned so much from building our first kennel,  that this one will have many improvements! We will have 16 closed circuit cameras through out the kennel and also outside the building facing the runs. The  monitors will be any TV in our home! We also made the garage portion large enough to store the RV in the winter. I am having cabinets made out of laminate so they can be wiped down and disinfected easily.