Friday, September 21, 2012

Dusty Floors

So at work lately I've been busy daydreaming about the house and decorating! Now that we are getting some important fixtures in our house, it's easier to visualize!

Yesterday, our builder starting in on installing the flooring. We went with a nice wood laminate, as we have a 100+ pound dog and we wanted hardwood, but didn't want it to be scratched. I have taken a key to a sample of the laminate and couldn't make a scratch. It's a great solution for our family now. And, it looks absolutely incredible!

It really adds warmth and richness with the cool gray walls!

Our main open area looks so much bigger now!



This is where our dining table will go.



Workers also continued to work on the exterior stone. They started the pillars and are finishing the garage peak. The stonework should be completed today. 


Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Lots Happening This Week!

A lot of people said that house building would be stressful....yeah maybe a little bit, but it's mostly just plain FUN! This week is the best yet! Cabinets are in, installed, flooring goes in this week, the exterior will be stoned and painted. EEK! So much fun!

Last week, we got the driveway and sidewalk poured. Carter said it's his to park all of his cars on and "we need a trike" to ride in the driveway. :)

So here's the updated fireplace with no scaffolding destroying the view. BEAUTEOUS! Our builder added some amazing crown to the top of the windows which I think really dresses up the area. Great focal point when you enter our home!


Cabinets were delivered on Monday and installed yesterday! I'm so stinking excited! Here's one teaser pic until they are all in place. I'm in love! I really need to make sure I bring in my real camera to get some better quality pics!



Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Rollin' Right Along

Isn't it PERFECT?! 


I can't wait to see it all finished! It's going to be so awesome to warm my toesies by this in a couple months!



So hard to get accurate paint color pics with my iPhone....but Carter is just THRILLED with the light blue. The painters made an oops first and painted it gray and Carter said, "But I told the workers BLUE!" haha :)



Gray by the entry....

This is actually a pretty accurate picture...going down the stairs.




Thursday, September 6, 2012

Paint and Stone...

Exciting times! This is what I've been waiting for!

Front door installed. LURVE!

We are rocked! dining/kitchen area

Master Bath

Carter's bedroom   


Imagine it covered in stacked stone. Oooh lala.


I didn't get any pics of when they were nicely mud and taped, but those guys did a REALLY good job. And amazingly fast. They had the whole place done in 2 weeks!

Now we move on to the fun stuff....paint!

Master bedroom -- SW Storm Cloud. Very moody and fun, love it!

Very bummed I didn't get a pic of the gray....it's a perfect gray! 


Yesterday they started on the stone work. Will look lovely with the Summit Gray siding.
Kentucky Cutface by Centurion.




Wednesday, September 5, 2012

We have....

Walls.

And Paint.

And STONE.

It's becoming a house! More details and pics soon!!

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Paint, Tile, and Lighting!

Busy weekend over here! We picked out paint, tile and bought all of the lights for the whole house. Woot! Feeling very accomplished over here!

SW Essential Gray -- What the majority of the house will be...a nice gray with a hint of taupe

SW Soar - Carter's bedroom, a sweet light blue to match his new airplane bedding

SW Storm Cloud - A moody blueish gray. LOVE this and matches our new bedding awesome. We'll lighten the room up with white curtains.


On to tile. This was a real headache for me. It's so hard to piece all of the things together -- fixtures, trim, vanity, countertop, etc. We came up with some great choices though!

We will be doing the bottom left (dark charcoal) for the floor of our master bath. We'll be doing 6x24 inch tiles...looks super sharp!  


This tile will be used in our master walk in shower. It comes in a variety of sizes, so  we can mix it up for a really fun look!



Slate looking tile without the maintenance -- we'll use this in the entryway and mud room. 



We chose a very basic light gray tile for our laundry room and hall bath. I feel much better having these decisions behind us!! 

Mudding and taping is coming along and it will be done by Friday, we will start painting after Labor Day!!



Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Exterior materials.

It's so hard piecing stuff together and hoping the final product is something you love!

Here is what we are thinking for the exterior....





SIDING - Sherwin Williams Summit Gray
SHUTTERS and DOOR - Sherwin Williams Naval
STONE - Kentucky Cutface by Centurion.

For the fireplace inside, we'll do the same color of stone, only stacked and not cutface.

Does this go?? We have charcoal black shingles.

 P.S. As of yesterday our house is completely sheet rocked and mudding/taping has started. Major updates coming!

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Decisions, decisions...

We are just now starting to have to make some pretty major decisions about materials. It's hard when you are trying to piece a space together and can't visualize the whole thing together.

We've purchased all of our kitchen appliances (stainless steel) and also new living room furniture. We had to get a new storage unit to house it all until it can go in the house.


Here's the sample of laminate flooring we have next to tile we like for the entryway and maybe the mudroom too.

And here's a combination of materials for our master bathroom. We ordered our onyx shower base in the color "coconut. The gray and smaller white-ish tile will make up the shower wall and wrap around to the tub.

What do you think??!

Exciting Stuff

We just love going over every evening and checking things out....especially during this framing stage. There is always something new to look at!

 Carter posing on the front porch.

 Ooh la la! The amazing entry. I'm so stoked with how this turned out!

 Fireplace all the way up to the ceiling.



 Plumbing has started as well!

 Carter bathroom tub/shower. Carter likes it but says, "It's weeeeely dirty, mommy."

 This is the patio door we picked out....with blinds inside the panes of glass. This will be great and solved any curtain or blind issue we would have had otherwise!
 Carter "working on the house".

 Pillars and arches taking shape.

 We just ooh and ahh everytime we see the house! LOVE!

Darn, it's hard to see....but they mapped out the kitchen on the floor. If you look closely, you'll see how we are going to have the wall unit oven in the corner. I'm excited to see how it all looks!

Framing Progress

Oh hai. Yep, still building a house! Framers are just a day or two from being completely done...so let me show you how things have changed around here!


 This is when things started to get exciting...the framing of our vaulted ceiling in the living room!

Framing the gable that will include a dormer.

Carter LOVES going to the new house to see the 'big dirts' and ride the yellow 'tractors'!




 NOW it's starting to look like the house I've been dreaming of. 



 Getting closer...

 
Windows installed!