Ohh, the walls are painted!

Hi all!


Steve coordinated a visit with our builder for this morning, so we could check things out one more time before Steve leaves town.  We were delighted to find the painting had begun, the cabinetry has been installed, and the concrete has been poured in the garage and front porch.


As always, there are a few pictures to share.  The pictures of the darker painted rooms didn't show up well. I'll have to try to take those pictures again at a later time.

Isn't she pretty in the morning light?
Notice, the columns on the front porch are in place.

The stairs are so pretty!

The kitchen and the cabinetry

Pretty stained built-in bookcases!
That is Temperate Taupe on the walls.

After visiting the house, we went to an appointment this morning to finalize our lighting choices. Then we decided to go on a shopping spree!!  :-)  We purchased our living room and dining room furniture, kitchen table and chairs, and a couple of other accent chairs.  Whew!  There are still a few pieces we're looking for, but they are all non-essential things that can wait for a while.


That is all for now!
Patricia

The doors are in, the doorknobs in place, and... locked?!?

Happy Sunday everyone!


Steve and I made our weekly trip out to the house Friday night.  We were surprised and disappointed to find the house was all locked up.  We peered in the windows, but it just wasn't the same  :-(  Looks like the kitchen cabinets and island are in, and the coffered ceiling was installed in the Great Room.  There will also be a coffered ceiling in the Dining Room, but we couldn't tell if that was in place yet.  More progress has been made on the outside as well with additional siding in place and more of the window shutters installed.

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Just for kicks, I've put up some of our furniture selections, as well as some of our "possible" furniture selections.

We both like these accent chairs,
but are undecided on where they would fit best.

This will be going in our Great Room, most likely.

"Possible" accent chair.

Another "possible" accent chair.

This might become our kitchen table. That's right folks, its triangular!

Steve has been spending a lot of time researching furniture and equipment for the theater room.  It feels like we're coming to some decisions on that as well.  It seems like we still have a good amount of time before this is all wrapped up, but at the same time I feel like we need to get cracking on packing and cleaning our current residence.  Moving day will be here before we know it!

Things are moving along!

I needed to call our builder to talk to him about a few small things, and he gave me a little update that I thought I'd pass along.  On the inside, the kitchen cabinets are installed!  I can't wait to get out there this weekend to take more pictures. He also said the paint should be going up in the next couple of weeks.  The rest of the exterior is getting finished up with the siding and shutters, and the plan is to pour the concrete for the garage in the next week or so.

I also spoke with our kitchen appliance company today.  They  need us to pay our bill with them so that they can deliver the appliances, which means... the kitchen appliances will be getting installed pretty soon!  My guess is in the next couple of weeks.  Woo hoo!

No pictures today, but it's almost the weekend! More than likely we'll be visiting the house again Saturday or Sunday.  Stay tuned!

The progress continues...

Greetings!


Steve and I had an appointment with our lighting consultant at Southern Lighting on Saturday to decide ALL of our lighting fixtures for the house.  Inside, and out.  All of them.  OK, ok, so it wasn't as tedious as I'm making it sound. It only took a couple of hours, and our consultant was a lot of help.  To be honest, both Steve and I initially felt overwhelmed by the showroom at first, but our consultant was great about helping us coordinate fixtures that would compliment our wall colors and bathroom fixtures, as well as thinking of the flow of lighting fixtures from room to room.  


We also went out furniture browsing (again!) on Saturday after our appointment at Southern Lighting. I'm 99.9% sure we've found our Great Room seating, and our Dining Room set, which is very, very exciting. We also found a kitchen table set that we both like. We continue to look for office furniture, accent chairs, and bookcases for the rest of the house. Steve is surprising me with his taste in accent furniture :-)  There is a set of zebra print chairs he really likes, that may just find their way in to the office.  Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of them, but I do have this one: 

Thoughts?

As always, more pictures!  These are from Saturday, 11 September.

The vinyl siding is up!

Shutters!
They were only on two of the windows so far, but hey, it was great to see them up!

Garage

Kitchen.
Looks like all the drywall is up, seams mudded (or whatever that stuff is), and the texture is on the ceiling.

Great room.

Master bedroom

Master bedroom.
Steve and I both agree that every time we step in to that sitting area, it surprises us at how spacious it is.

We had a visitor :-)

This is the view from the master bedroom sitting area window.

As the house is coming together, we are both finding that we love our choices more and more.  For example, once the brick went up, we loved our brick choice even more. Now that the vinyl siding and shutters are going up, we are loving our color choices even more. I know we have a few more months to go, but I just can't wait to see the rest of it come together!

The walls are up! The walls are up!

Last weekend we couldn't help ourselves, and ended up going back to the house on Sunday, even though we had just been there on Friday. We discovered the whole house had the sheet rock up.  That was really special, to walk through the house with the walls up and the rooms really defined.

Kitchen!

Great Room

Fireplace

Master bedroom

Master sitting area

Whirlpool tub!
I LOVE the big window by the tub so I can enjoy our forest while I relax  in warm bubbly water.

Our backyard

The front door, foyer, and stairs (from the Great Room).

Yeah, I know these pictures are a solid week old already. Oh well! Enjoy!
:-)

Our first walk-through! And, more pictures.

Steve and I had a very exciting visit to the house last night. We actually ran in to our builder, who was driving by checking up on things too. The brick is all up now, and they're starting to put up sheetrock.  We actually stepped in side and took a tour! It was very exciting to be walking in our new space for the first time.

This is from last Saturday, when we discovered the windows and doors were in place, and they had started bricking up the rest of the house.

A view of the garage.

Brick wall!

This is from last night.  Look how pretty our brick is!

A view of the garage.

The inside of our garage. The door to the house is on the right.

Kitchen!

Great Room with windows that give us a very nice view of the backyard.

This is where the built-in bookshelves and fireplace are going.

A view from the front door. Office is on the left, dining room on the right, and the great room is beyond the stairs!

The downstairs guest bedroom already has sheetrock up!  (the rest of the bedrooms basically look like this too, so we'll save you the torture of three more identical pictures)

Guest bath  :-)

Stairs

Our soon to be theatre on the 2nd floor.

Master Bedroom.  Those windows look out over the garage toward the main road.

This is our sitting area off the master bedroom. Lots of room!

Master shower

Master whirlpool tub. Oh yeah.

 

This is the outside ventilation for the range hood in the kitchen. Nerd alert!

Our screened in back porch.

A view of the backyard from the 2nd floor.

The back of the house. To the right of the back porch will be a patio.

That's right folks, our new home will be Energy Star!

Whew!  That was a lot of pictures!  Enjoy!