5405 Holden Court Slab Home

Work is getting done on the slab construction at Holden Court! Stop by and see the new construction. 

Breaking Ground on Spec #2 and #3

 The lot is flagged out and ready for the slab to be poured.

Spec #2 will be located at 5405 Holden Court. This is just off of Scenic Drive in the Highland Meadows development. 

• Slab Construction
• Storm Shelter
• Large Windows
• Side-access 2 car garage
•  Still in construction phase, still time to choose finishes

Spec #3 will be located at 5406 Holden Court. 

• Full walk-out basement
• Large Windows
• 3 car garage
• Still in construction phase, still time to choose finishes

Barnhardt Construction has 2 other lots purchased in the Highland Meadows development. 

5332 Stone Crest Drive - Price Reduced!

Finished House - 5332 Stone Crest Drive

This amazing property is located just off Scenic Drive south of Anderson in Manhattan, KS. We recently reduced the price on this listing. It is now listed for $239,960. Don't miss your chance to own a beautiful property in Manhattan, KS, for a very reasonable price!

Bathroom #2

Living/Dining Room and Kitchen

Sheldon and Tera in front of the finished Spec Home

Custom Shower in Master Bathroom

Master Bathroom

Cedar Deck

Cedar Deck

Contact Sheldon or Tera for more information and specifications on this house. 

Sheldon - 620-640-1173

Tera - 620-353-4396

Parade of Homes

Come out to the house anytime during the Flint Hills Area Builders Association Parade of Home. You can get an event book at Mead Lumber, or we'll have some out at the house so you can visit the other homes on the parade.

Thursday, October 17th 5-8 pm

Friday, October 18th 5-8 pm

Saturday, October 19th 10 am - 4 pm

Sunday, October 20th 1 pm - 4 pm

We are excited for you all to view our finished spec home. Hope to see you out there!

Sheldon and Tera

Flint Hills Area Builders Association Parade of Homes

Our house will be featured in the Parade of Homes put on by the Flint Hills Area Builders Association. We are very excited to show off the house for the parade on October 17th-20th.


We will post more information as it becomes available, but this is the link to the event flyer.

POH Flyer

Come on out if you are in the Manhattan area!!!

Sheldon and Tera

Cabinets going in!

Master bathroom "His" vanity with Onyx top and sink. The tile is done in the shower and looks absolutely amazing. I have to get a better picture of it in daylight so you can appreciate the work!

This is the bathroom that is attached to the "kids" bedrooms. I am really happy with how the design turned out. There is a lot of storage in this house!

The Kitchen cabinets are being installed. This shows the crown molding that is going at the top of all of the cabinets.

What we've been up to lately...

Dry wall is done and we are ready for flooring, cabinets and paint!

The deck is almost done and looks great!!! I helped Sheldon set the trusses and let me tell you that was work!!!

Excuse the crappy photo, but the tile is done in all bathrooms and is waiting for grout. Sheldon did such a fantastic job!

Things are moving fast!

Siding, shingles and stones

Siding is almost finished on the house. Shingles have started going down. Stones were set for the retaining walls.

Installation of insulation has happened and now they're finishing up electrical. I can't wait to see some colors go up on the siding.

Progress.

We had some job site "inspectors" come out and check in on Uncle Sheldon's work. 

G had to help put up some safety tape. Before the final sliding glass door was installed it made Sheldon pretty nervous to have it just open. They put up some "Caution" safety tape to warn everyone! Now there is a sliding glass door there, so the tape got to come down pretty quickly!

C wanted to check out what the skid steer could do. 

A lot of progress has been made on the house this past week - siding is up and almost finished. The shingles are going to go on this week. The HVAC, plumbing and electrical has made a lot of progress. I will update soon! 

Moving along

The top slab of the garage got poured today. The weekend of August 10th, Sheldon and I had to fill in all of the voids between the hollow core concrete slabs with a finer aggregate concrete. It took us a long time to do, but we had to do that so that it was completely filled in before the larger aggregate concrete was poured. 

And they did the front porch slab! Also do you see that first widow installed? Sheldon picked out the windows and they are very nice. Sandstone is the color he went with. As of last week (8/19-23) all of the windows and doors were installed in the house.

The framers have been working hard on getting soffit and fascia put up on the house. All they have left is the peak of the garage to do before roofers can start!

 The "Brains" of the Operation on the Roof!

The roof also got "blacked in" today. The felt paper is down and the shingles will go up next. We had to pick out the shingle color and I never dreamed there would be so many options. It's a very neutral brown tone shingle.

Trusses, coffers and blocking!

This is a gable truss with the overhang on it. They constructed these before setting them. The other trusses came prefabricated from the factory.

They should be setting the girder trusses later today. Girder trusses are set when the roof line changes directions and are systems that allow for open floor plans because they don't require load bearing walls below them.

This truss design will allow Sheldon to put coffered ceilings in the master bedroom. A coffer is a sunken panel that will add to the architectural design element of the house. Coffering is my favorite!!!

This is an example of coffered ceilings.

This is the blocking for the kitchen cabinets. It allows them to install cabinets easier because they don't have to search for studs. 

Finally the rain slowed down enough for us to get busy. Thank goodness, Sheldon was driving me nuts!

Dirt work and a train wreck!

Sheldon moved a ton of dirt on the site and it is finally back filled in. The next step is to top it off with some pretty top soil. 

The train wreck - it rained a bajillion inches and turned our site into a mudslide. The next step is to set the trusses, but we can't get that done until they can get on the site with some very heavy equipment. 

I don't complain about rain, we were both raised by farmers. The corn looks good and I'm glad because it's the only thing making us feel good about the fact that the house is moving so slowly!!!

Sheathing finished.

Remmi loves going to the new house to check things out! Up next is the roof trusses and sheathing for the roof. We are hunting for new lots to build on in Manhattan. We like the west side of town a lot and have a few on the short list.

Houston We Have A House

Nothing makes it look more like a real house than the main floor walls going up.

 

Floor joists and subfloor in!

I didn't get the walls updated, but Thursday they finished the basement walls. 

The floor joists are in and the subfloor is installed! Tomorrow they will get the main floor walls up. Get excited for updates. 

Walls going up!

House For Sale

The house is officially for sale. We wanted to make sure people driving by knew it was for sale even though it is far from being finished.

We also buried our St. Joseph statue today. My catechism teacher told me about the practice of praying to St. Joseph and the Communion of Saints as well as burying a statue at the house. I figured it definitely wouldn't hurt!

We are inviting St. Joseph, the head of the most perfect household, to help us pray for the selling of Sheldon's first home.