We Have Hardwood Floors!

We were shocked, but our wood floors were actually installed on Monday! We chose red oak and we think the stain will be cherry. The flooring company said that they'll give us a couple samples when it comes time to stain the floors so that we can see it with our cabinets.

Dining room

Kitchen to Dining room

Wet bar area in the bonus room

We finally got our interior trim package ordered this week. It should be delivered by the middle of next week. We're still working on getting our cabinets ordered. The salesman we met with originally was wonderful, but he retired before we placed the order. The new guy wins the award for biggest airhead. All he was supposed to do was take the original quote and subtract glaze from the bathroom cabinets and add full extension drawers. Well, the bid all of a sudden increased over $5000, and he can't figure out why!!! So, we're waiting to talk to "the right" guy to get this straightened out, but he's on vacation this week and won't be back until Monday.

This weekend we're going to start putting the tile down. We're doing it ourselves, with the help of my parents and Lee. We have 4 bathrooms and the laundry room to tile. It won't get done this weekend, but we should get a good start.

We Have Drywall!

After much waiting, we finally have drywall! Our insulation was done a couple weeks ago. We've just included one picture of that, it's not too exciting. The drywall was supposed to be delivered and hung last week, but because of "driver issues" it couldn't be delivered when scheduled, and then it rained the rest of the week.

So we were thrilled to see it had been delivered on Monday and it was all hung by 1:00 yesterday afternoon! It actually looks like a house on the inside now! The rest of this week will be taping and mudding and then sanding.

On Saturday, we're going to pick out our hardwood floors! We have flooring, cabinets, and trim to look forward to in the next couple of weeks...hopefully!

Family room fireplace, insulation, and drywall sitting off to the side.
Garage, going into the house.
Garage closet for the hot water heater and Steven's shop vac system.
Family room windows and dining room french doors.
Family room

More Drywall Pictures

Kitchen with a pantry in the corner.

View of the kitchen from the family room. (Notice there's no front door on the right side of the picture...it's supposed to be installed next Tuesday.)

Master bedroom

Bonus room

Bonus room, looking at the wetbar area and the hallway that leads to the half bath and our office/scrapbooking room.

Making Progress!

Finally, the right shingles are on the house!!! We feel like we've made some good progress this week so far. On Monday, our 3rd set of shingles were completed, and they're the right color! We also had our fireplaces installed, one in the family room and one in the bonus room. We even got our septic system installed Monday and Tuesday. Today, the electrician was back finishing a list of things that we've been waiting for over a month to be finished.

If things continue at this rate, we just might see some drywall next week. The insulation is to be dropped off tomorrow so that they can start putting it in over the weekend.

The only part of the brick that hasn't been finished yet is on the front porch and around the service door on the garage. We've been waiting for at least a month for our front door and service door to arrive, only to find out last Friday that what we want doesn't come in steel. They only make the style we wanted in wood. Granted the wood doors are absolutely beautiful, we just don't want the maintenance...so we've picked out new doors, but we are back to the waiting game. The framers were supposed to install door frames tomorrow with construction doors so that the brick can be finished.




Just a little tid bit...Our neighbors that broke ground at the same time that we did, but got away with being their own contractor for the most part, moved into their house almost 2 weeks ago. We're hoping to be in by July 1st, but we know even that might be a long shot considering the last 6 months!

Brick is Almost Done...Almost

Well, the brick is almost done. We're waiting for our front door to arrive and be installed before they can finish the front porch area. They've also run out of brick, we're about 1500 short. We're also waiting for the garage service door to arrive and be installed so that they can finish that doorway as well. Here are the latest pictures.



A quick update on the shingles... The correct shingles have been ordered and are in. At least they should be correct this time. Third time's a charm, right? We're expecting rain for the rest of this week, and mid 70s :), so hopefully they will be able to put the new shingles on next week. Then once the shingles are done, the insulation and drywall can get started. We're really looking forward to that!

Last Saturday, we went to a stone yard to look at granite. That was really fun. We found a couple of stones that we really liked, both in our budget! We've pretty much decided on the one we want, it's called St. Helena.