This house building stuff feels like its moving at warp speed! Here is what Wednesday brought us:

A cleaned up front yard and a finished roof!

 Solar Panels!!

 Staircase railing!

 An almost finished formal living room (and a happy Matt)!

 Also a almost finished family room!

 Lets just throw this almost finished pantry into the mix.

 Remember how I said way back in my first few posts that it looks like they goofed and we would be getting railing upstairs instead of the pony wall? Well it looks like they caught their mistake (dang it!) and we will be getting a pony wall. I am both happy and sad about this. I'm sad because the railing would have made the room seem much more open and visually appealing. I'm happy because the pony wall gives us one extra wall to work with which allows us to do more with furniture that will eventually go in the loft.

 The counter tops were installed! They goofed on the master bathroom again....Matt walked in and saw the white tile counter top (like you see below) and was none to pleased. We paid to have granite in the master bathroom because I am not a fan of the white tiles. Billie, my awesome sales agent, sent an email to the construction team letting them know they messed up and assured me it would be fixed.

We opted to go with the standard white tile for the 2nd bath because we felt this bathroom would get used and abused once we have kids, so why spend the upgrade money now when we know it will need to upgraded down the road anyways.



You may be wondering why I haven't posted a picture of the back of the house, well there is a good reason for that. Just as I took the picture of the 2nd bath Matt was looking outside and saw a dog wandering around the houses; that put a stop to all the picture taking. He went outside to try to approach her but she walked away from him. I always keep water and a leash in the car because of Chloe (and you never know when you'll find a stray) so I filled up the bowl and offered her some water. After about 5 minutes of me ignoring her she slowly made her way around to me. Once she realized I wasn't going to hurt her she acted like she had never been so happy to see people.

We asked around the neighborhood to see if she belonged to anyone and they all said no, one person did say that he saw her walking around on Monday. Because of our current living situation there was no way we could keep her. We called the shelter and they told us what to do with her. We took her to the shelter and placed her in a kennel, where there was food, water, and a blanket waiting for her. I really hope she had a microchip and that she was able to go back home to her family. It broke my heart to leave her there but at least I had peace of mind that she was in a safe place and not on the streets.

That is all for now, enjoy the holiday weekend and stay safe!

Just when I think things are going to slow down....

We went to the house again on Saturday and got a HUGE surprise! Not only was the house painted on the outside but we had cabinets and doors! We were totally not excepting all that so soon but were very happy to see it! Now on to the good stuff....

The house is painted and the stone as been added to the exterior.

A close up of the shutters. They will go on the window above the garage as well. I wasn't able to get a picture but we also have a fake window on the side of the house that is nothing but shutters.

 Our kitchen! Since the cabinets were in we were able to take the needed measurements and put a fridge on layaway. We were also able to take part in a pre-labor day sale and saved about $350!

Since we upgraded the cabinets in the kitchen we were able to get the same cabinets throughout the entire house. We also opted to have the cabinets in the master bath built a few inches higher.

 Here is the 2nd bathroom cabinet. The green x is where the medicine cabinet is supposed to go.

 Here is the shelving in the laundry room. Who knows why they installed a rod as well!

 This is the closet and door of the 1st bedroom.

I am a little bummed that they added doors though because that means soon the locks will be on and Matt and I will no longer be able to sneak down in the middle of the week... booo! That is all for now. There's no telling what we may see the next time we go!



Holy completed roof Batman!!

It still boggles my mind that our hose will take until mid November to complete. Every time we go see it, it seems so much closer to completion! But I know there is still tons of work to do on the inside and that will take a good amount of time to complete.

 

 

We were excited to see the roof was just about completed  and some paint had been applied!

 

This is the area where the solar panels will be placed. We only went with the standard 6 panels but its still nice to know our electricity bill will be reduced a little bit because of those panels.

 

Cant forget the view of the back of the house!

 I didn't take too many pictures of the interior this time because I really didn't see too much interior process. The walls have all been textured and the cieling has also been painted. The kitchen looked to have the most progress made! Here is the kitchen when standing in the living room. The stove top will go in the middle of the wall and you can see the electrical cord on the floor just waiting for the island to be installed.

This is where the sink will be, at least they are nice enough to give me (I mean Matt) a view while I (I mean he) do(es) dishes!

 

 Here you can see the small indent for where the fridge will go and the double ovens will go next to it. We are going to start seriously shopping for one soon. I'd like to put it on layaway so we can get a nice one and not use any "house money" for it.

That's all for our impromptu Wednesday visit! We will be heading back on Saturday and hopefully there will be some newsworthy progress!

Stucco!!

Long time no blog! The end of the summer is extra busy for us this year, so I'll do my best to keep the blog updated on a weekly basis. Matt and I stopped by the house last night (we are out of town this weekend) and surprise, we have stucco!!

I should mention that when we showed up last weekend, we had dry wall up on the inside. I did take lots of pictures but decided not to post them because really, when you've seen one white wall you've seen em all. Once major stuff starts happening on the inside, I'll post pictures. But for now you're suck with outside pictures.

 Here is the front and back of the house with the stucco on. We are so excited to finally get to this point.

 This may not look like much but I am showing off the newly aligned drive way and

the start of our sidewalk.

 They also starting building the house next door to us, so I was able to see exactly how much space we would have. 15ft on each side looks good to me!

Here is the other side of the house.

 Last but not least here is a picture of our up and coming neighborhood. They moved the construction fence back so we can now park in front of our house when we visit!

That is all for this week. Our next visit to the house wont be until August 25th, I can't wait to see the progress then!

Why hello there house!

The progress made in the past half a week has been amazing! It looks like a legit house! Matt and I think that they will be putting the stucco on soon. Guess we will find out when we go visit again on Saturday.

Here is the progress as of Wednesday.

 You can see they broke ground on the house next door to us! I'm excited about this because now I can see exactly how much space will be between the houses. It should be 15ft on each side.

 Every time we go to the house Matt strikes this pose... I think he might be excited or something.

 This is the bathtub for the 2nd bathroom. This is the first time we really get to see what the bathroom is going to look like since the model has the upgraded bathroom.

The master tub... I cannot wait to soak in this baby!

Matt and I are going out of town on Sunday and wont be back until Wednesday. So we will see the house again this coming Saturday but will miss the Wednesday visit. Hopefully we can go down on Thursday instead, we shall see.