Kitchen

Bill, Dustin, and my brother installed our kitchen cabinets today, they look great. Bill has a few finishing touches yet to do on them, such as hardware and finishing the island etc. It is going to be wonderful to cook in this kitchen.

Good bye Corian - Hello Granite

I ordered our countertop today. We are getting granite with an undermount stainless sink and a stainless finish faucet. I love it, I can't believe it is cheaper than corian. We are so excited, it has a 15 year sealant on it and it is beautiful. We should have it installed within 2-3 weeks.

Floor tile work complete

The tile is complete in the foyer, laundry room, pantry, kitchen, dining room, both bathrooms, and hall way. It looks great, I am very pleased with how it turned out. Our kitchen cabinets will be installed tomorrow and Sunday. I am very excited to see them go up. We got our quote for the countertops and were shocked at the price, we are checking into other options, Corian is a lot more expensive than we ever imagined, we are checking into quarts and granite since it is comparable to corian pricing.

Tile Board Laid

The tile board was laid today throughout the rest of the house, our foyer, laundry, pantry, and master bathroom. We are told that the tile should be complete by Thursday, at the latest Friday. Our cabinets were delivered today as well. I am excited to see the tile and the cabinets/countertop/island all come together to make the kitchen look awesome. We have to work on lighting, electrical outlets, and switches, as well as frame the garden tub in as soon as possible.

Our last steps will then be to finish the flooring, install cabinets/countertops, and finish trim shoe molding on the floor after the floors are installed.

Our septic passed inspection and is ready to be filled in now.

House painted and trimmed

Living room view

Living room

Living room - Side view

Dining room

Dining room

Kitchen with concrete board minus cabinets

Master bedroom

Foyer

Steps to basement

Hannah's wild pink room - she loves it!!!!!

Elijah's awesome blue room - neat color

Bathroom minus sink/cabinet/toilet

Master bedroom - look at that ice outside.

Master bathroom

It has been a little while since my last update, the house is completely trimmed out and painted, it looks great. We decided to go with Dave Orris for our painter, he comes highly recommended by my Dad and was quick and did a great job. Our garage door is installed, as well as, our gutters and spouting. The insulation in the ceiling is not yet in, and the heating guy still has not made good on his word to get it installed for us when was asked him too, this is the 5th time now that we had to ask him and he did not do it when he said he would. Very frustrating.

The laminate and tile board were delivered on Sat, the tile board was installed in the kitchen, dining room, hall and kids bathroom. The tile will start going in this week.

Our cabinets will be delivered today, so we should get them in by this weekend. Our stained ceiling planks arrived as well, we need to get them installed soon as well. The house is looking great, we are getting more excited by the day to get in the new house. Especially on days like today, the ice was so thick on my windshield, all I could think is.....it will be so nice to have a garage soon.

View from Living room - December 16, 2007

The view from our house today was spectacular. The ice covered trees and the sun shining through them was a beautiful site to see. Hannah even said, "Momma it is beautiful out today." The neat thing was as the ice melted from the trees it ran off the trees like a downward stream, it was really cool.

House Deadline - Help requested

Bill and I discovered on Friday night that our drop dead date to have the house finished is 12/29/07. Of course we are stressed out learning of this date. We both had thought we had until early Jan, this changes everything. We are going to have to put things in high gear, work lots of long long hours and sub out some work. We are going to sub the painting and tile work, the rest is pretty much up to us to do.

The weekend was pretty successful, we finished all of the siding, facia, and soffet. The house looks great. We called to order the gutters and spoutings to be installed as well as the blown insulation to be put in above the ceilings. We installed almost all of the interior doors and have about half of them trimmed out. We still have to finish trimming them out, install baseboard trim, and install laminate flooring this week into the weekend. Then on Thursday the garage door will be installed, and the heating will be hooked up. Hopefully if all goes well late next week or early the following week 12/17 range we can get the house painted. After the house is painted the week of Christmas we will be installing the kitchen and finishing everything else up.

It is a busy busy schedule and we will need as much help from our friends as we can get. I know we feel bad for asking but we just need the help due to the time line we are on.