It has been a little while since my last update, we have just about finished the siding at this point, we just have some facia and soffet to install yet and it is completed. We received our fourth draw and now are busy working on decks before it gets too cold. We have all of the windows trimmed out, and the front deck framed and platform up, we just have to do the railing, spindals, and steps yet for this deck. Elijah was extremely helpful with getting the screws into the deck boards. We were so proud of all of his hard work.
The back deck holes are dug, deck board is up, we still have to frame it. This deck should not take as long since it is smaller and not as high off the ground. Our geothermal will be installed on tomorrow or Thursday of this week. It will be nice to have steady heat to work with since it is getting really cold quickly.
Our interior doors have arrived and we will be installing them shortly as well. We made an unanamious decision that we are not going to push it to try to get in by Christmas. We want our kids to be able to enjoy Christmas and have a tree. If we could get in by Christmas we would be moving right around Christmas and we want to enjoy Christmas with the kids. As for our old house, we have decided to wait to put it on the market until after our new house is finished, there is too much stress trying to finish things in the old house, and moving stuff to declutter and we just feel it will be better to wait. Financially it will be tight but we are trusting that God is going to work it all out for us and for the good.
We ordered the rest of our trim, crown molding, chair rail, wainescoating, and wood ceiling for the living room today from Heister House. Not sure when it will be in, hopefully rather quickly. Our garage door was ordered last week so we should expect to get that within two weeks. Our cabinets will arrive on Friday. We bought the garage door opener on black friday, we got a really good deal on a nice one. It has keypad entry, two garage door openers, and one remote garage door opener. We also got our kitchen island lights, they are so cool, we really like them alot.
We had the painter come out for his estimate to paint the house, he wanted $5,300 to paint just the upstairs. We decided we can do this on our own, we are going to do the painting. Another reason why we are not rushing to get in by Christmas, if we have a little patience we can save a lot more money by doing a lot of the work ourselves.
We have decided on flooring types, we are going with hardwood in the living room and masterbedroom, laminate wood in the kids rooms, tile in the kitchen, dining room, foyer, laundry, pantry, and both bathrooms.
We have decided on bamboo for our bedroom, and red oak for the living room. Elijah wants a cherry laminate for his bedroom. Not sure if we will do this in the room upstairs or just wait until we have his room in the basement. I like the look of cherry but am afraid that it will show the dirt much quicker since it is a darker wood.
Our septic is in, not sure if I already told you that yet or not. I will be glad when the toilets are installed. LOL :)
We decided to do wainescoating in the kids bathroom, I think this will prove to be a wise choice since kids tend to be hard on the walls and with the bathroom being such small headquarters I think it is a wise choice.
We are going to do chair rail in the living room with two tone paint, we are going to do shadow boxing in the dining room with crown in the dining room and kitchen, foyer, our bedroom and our bathroom. I just love the look of crown and if I had my choice I would do it in every room.
Our next step is making final decisions on paint color and flooring. This is where I have been struggling the most, it is a tough decision to pick all of the colors and since we went with beige windows, we feel we need to go with beige trim around the windows and rooms, so the paint color choices will have to go nice with beige. It is just a tough choice, especially when your daughter wants a pink room and your son wants a blue room. LOL :)
The back deck holes are dug, deck board is up, we still have to frame it. This deck should not take as long since it is smaller and not as high off the ground. Our geothermal will be installed on tomorrow or Thursday of this week. It will be nice to have steady heat to work with since it is getting really cold quickly.
Our interior doors have arrived and we will be installing them shortly as well. We made an unanamious decision that we are not going to push it to try to get in by Christmas. We want our kids to be able to enjoy Christmas and have a tree. If we could get in by Christmas we would be moving right around Christmas and we want to enjoy Christmas with the kids. As for our old house, we have decided to wait to put it on the market until after our new house is finished, there is too much stress trying to finish things in the old house, and moving stuff to declutter and we just feel it will be better to wait. Financially it will be tight but we are trusting that God is going to work it all out for us and for the good.
We ordered the rest of our trim, crown molding, chair rail, wainescoating, and wood ceiling for the living room today from Heister House. Not sure when it will be in, hopefully rather quickly. Our garage door was ordered last week so we should expect to get that within two weeks. Our cabinets will arrive on Friday. We bought the garage door opener on black friday, we got a really good deal on a nice one. It has keypad entry, two garage door openers, and one remote garage door opener. We also got our kitchen island lights, they are so cool, we really like them alot.
We had the painter come out for his estimate to paint the house, he wanted $5,300 to paint just the upstairs. We decided we can do this on our own, we are going to do the painting. Another reason why we are not rushing to get in by Christmas, if we have a little patience we can save a lot more money by doing a lot of the work ourselves.
We have decided on flooring types, we are going with hardwood in the living room and masterbedroom, laminate wood in the kids rooms, tile in the kitchen, dining room, foyer, laundry, pantry, and both bathrooms.
We have decided on bamboo for our bedroom, and red oak for the living room. Elijah wants a cherry laminate for his bedroom. Not sure if we will do this in the room upstairs or just wait until we have his room in the basement. I like the look of cherry but am afraid that it will show the dirt much quicker since it is a darker wood.
Our septic is in, not sure if I already told you that yet or not. I will be glad when the toilets are installed. LOL :)
We decided to do wainescoating in the kids bathroom, I think this will prove to be a wise choice since kids tend to be hard on the walls and with the bathroom being such small headquarters I think it is a wise choice.
We are going to do chair rail in the living room with two tone paint, we are going to do shadow boxing in the dining room with crown in the dining room and kitchen, foyer, our bedroom and our bathroom. I just love the look of crown and if I had my choice I would do it in every room.
Our next step is making final decisions on paint color and flooring. This is where I have been struggling the most, it is a tough decision to pick all of the colors and since we went with beige windows, we feel we need to go with beige trim around the windows and rooms, so the paint color choices will have to go nice with beige. It is just a tough choice, especially when your daughter wants a pink room and your son wants a blue room. LOL :)
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