"Rock On"

Our progress of the week involves our exterior rock work! We went with the Teton Shadow Rock in the end and I'm really liking how it looks so far. It's nice that the weather has warmed up enough that exterior projects can get started, although they have just been putting in partial days, due to the nights cooling off.... if they work too late, then the grout won't get dry enough before the temperature drops! So, we continue to plug away, one day at a time!

I still don't have a pantry door....

The owner of the company we built with took away my site managers cell phone & gave him a company phone of sorts - now I have to phone the office to get ahold of dear Jack... & needless to say I haven't heard back from him yet, so no clue when the interior will be worked on again????

Seeing Green

I figured that it is very appropriate for St. Patrick's Day, that we are in the middle of painting our basement GREEN! The staircase, playroom & craftroom are all 'Nature's Scenery' a mossy olive green and the bathroom and guestroom are a shade darker, called 'Cleveland Green'. The lighting was bad last night, since it was dark but here's how it's looking so far!

I gotta go potty...

Well for lack of a better title... here are some pictures of our bathrooms. I finally located the main bathroom accessories in the storage unit, two days ago, and was so excited to get it all together (the bathroom that is, not me!)

BOYS BATHROOM:

MASTER/ENSUITE BATHROOM:

(the shower is awaiting a door... we're accepting donations!!!)

MAIN FLOOR 1/2 BATH:

PS: this is totally a different topic but our shutters got hung two days ago too - I'm guessing they'll be removed for the stucco, when the time comes, but at least they're here and not getting lost in the shuffle!

Bits & Pieces...

So... it's been a long while since I posted anything! In my last post, I mentioned that we would be getting the movers to deliver our belongings on 'Tuesday' (before Christmas) - whereas in reality our belongings didn't get delivered until Wednesday, January 7th and we actually moved in on Saturday the 10th. Our builder has told us many different dates but they didn't really mean anything...

We went away to see Miles' family for a few days over Christmas but otherwise our new home was the Days Inn. The staff were great, we got a continental breakfast every morning, a newspaper, swimming pool, waterslide, hot tubs etc but it was over the entire Christmas break from school & during a VERY VERY cold snap, in which we really didn't even want to venture out anywhere!

It's great to be in & YES, I assure you that I WILL post some pictures shortly... it's just that there are so many touch-ups still to do & I'm waiting for things to be more settled.

BLINDS: we had a blind consultation shortly after moving in & got blackout blinds for upstairs and an opaque two-way blind for the windows on the main floor. Two-way meaning that they go up/down from the top and bottom of the window. After going for a month and a half with two street lights shining through our bedroom window, it has been soooo nice to sleep in the DARK! I also ordered fabric for side panels on the two living room windows and will also do a matching roman shade for the kitchen window, since it is all one big room. The fabric compliments my 'loud' colourful red chairs, so I'm kind of excited about it!!!

PAINT: the painters are coming back on Friday morning to do touch-ups and do another coat on a couple of the darker walls. Also some stain touch ups...

CABINETS: when the cabinets were being installed, we thankfully caught the fact that the kitchen sink was so not centred under the window, and had the installer cut down another little cabinet before he got too far along & before counters & flooring went in. Fast forward to the kitchen sink - now that floors are in etc, the cabinet is apparently too small for my beloved stainless steel apron sink! Grrr! So we had them cut down the sides & make a couple adjustments (an ok bandaid but whatever) only now with the extra bracing needed to support the granite, the dishwasher no longer fits in it's opening. So the same little cabinet that got cut down before, needs to be shrunk once again! This time they decided that it was cheaper just to reorder the cabinet & so my dishwasher sat out for a good four weeks. This was all rectified on February 4th but they still need to come back with new toe kicks and a few door & drawer fronts are being replaced...

TILE: before we moved in, the site manager was upstairs and ran some water in the jacuzzi tub, only to be hollered at by the granite installers that water was pouring out of the pendant lights above them. Something obviously wasn't hooked up properly, so they had to take two tiles off the front of the tub skirting to fix the problem! This was finally fixed last night. Had the cleaners come when they were supposed to (the night before this incident) we would have been in huge trouble because they fill the tub completely up to clean & then when they drained it, no one would have been downstairs & the kitchen would have been flooded - cabinets, hardwood floors, you name it!

PANTRY DOOR: Still waiting... it's gonna be stained 'in the next two days' for the last five weeks... so the kids love rummaging for food :)

BASEMENT: our friends framed, taped, mudded & sanded the walls before taking off to Texas for a couple months. My hubby & I have started painting now, we've met with the guy who's going to spray the ceiling, we're in the middle of carpet consults and the electrical, plumbing & heating is all roughed in. Looks like we will be rolling right along by about the third week of March! Yay! I cannot wait to have the playroom set up for the kids, not to mention my craft room & the guest room (we have friends from Manitoba coming at the end of the month with their four kidlets, on their way through to BC, so it will be great to have the basement somewhat complete). By the time our friends get back from Texas, we'll be ready to put them to work hanging doors, baseboards & the deck :)

So... we're getting there! It's frustrating to always hear that someone is coming to do a certain task & have them not show time and time again... but like I said, we're getting there! I promise I'll post pictures soon!

Almost there....

Well we are days away from moving... hard to believe!!! Miles was out to the house at midnight-ish last night helping Scott (neighbour) template the granite & took a few pictures for me while he was out there! It's looking very yellow! We were going to go with a yellow similar to what we have now but it has turned out to be quite a bit darker - it does look better in the daylight though :) Hardwood started going in yesterday, most of the lights are in, granite should be in on the weekend... LOTS is going on on Tuesday - it will be an insane day of deliveries and hook ups & getting settled and I'm sure the list goes on!!! The movers will come here Saturday morning to load up. They will probably deliver some of the garage stuff etc and then the remainder will stay on the truck until Tuesday afternoon, when we can hopefully get into the house! Looks like we will be motel-ing it on Monday night - maybe Tuesday too?!

Laundry room - Boghemp green

Basement getting framed

Mechanical room

Upstairs (with back to the master bedroom) looking at the linen closet (left), Ethan's room & boys bathroom. Across from closet is the laundry room & to the left is the bonus room. On the right hall, there is Jackson/Liam's room and Cole's room! Make sense?

Master bedroom - I'm hoping my colour scheme comes together as envisioned! Should be interesting!!! The walls are Pinesap green :)

The bonus room cabinets - fireplace below & tv above (Mommia brown)

Walnut hardwood

Chablis yellow!!!! It's all coming together with the lights, flooring etc...

Paint

It's painting weekend!!!! YAY! It's very exciting to see colour on the walls - it's coming to life! Still no camera but I asked my hubby to take a couple pics on his phone so maybe I'll have something more exciting to post later!? (Note: the pics weren't worth posting!)

The hardwood still hasn't shown up which is extremely maddening because it is supposed to get installed on Monday and needs to climatize to the house temperature! Was supposed to be there by Wednesday.... of course the distributor is closed today so Miles called the builder @ home to see what's going on...

Pictures!!!

Since I was going to Jackson's class today, to make gingerbread houses and also wanted to show some house updates, my neighbour graciously lent me her camera for a couple hours! When I popped in this afternoon, the guys were filling the nail holes on the casings, getting ready to paint tomorrow! There's a few glitches to fix with some of the cabinet doors/drawers but I'm really happy with the colours etc. My kitchen is so much bigger than what I'm used to! We were also REALLY pleased with our finishing carpenter! Yay for Bob & a job well done :) Most of the duct/tin work is done in the basement & we're ready for the framer to come back. Then it'll be plumbing & electrical & we should soon be on the way to drywalling the basement! So much to do & think about... so little time before moving day! Does my mother want to fly out for a "visit"??? hint hint :)

The raised eating bar - espresso in colour

Staircase (to be stained espresso with metal spindles)

Master bathroom

Boys' bathroom (the electricians had to move the lights over a smidge, so that hole needs to be patched up)

Mudroom lockers!!!! YAY! The second shelf down is going to have three hooks on it & is moveable, as the boys grow! Each boy will have their own section & then opposite of that is one of sorts for us! I love them!!! This is one of my favourite features :)

Living room - will be stained espresso

Kitchen... waiting for floors & counters :)