House is Finished!

House is finished! We are thrilled with it and can't wait for everyone to come for a visit!

We will be moving next Friday August 8th!

We have a Yard!

We now have our yard! It was graded and raked this morning and we got some pictures of them spraying the hydroseed. Now the hard work begins, keeping it watered and taking care of it.

We had our "Celebration" yesterday and our new oven bakes some pretty tasty cookies and our new microwave pops the perfect bag of popcorn. We will have our "zero defect" walk through Monday morning which means that any imperfections we spotted yesterday should be corrected by Monday morning.

We are settling on the house next Friday August 8th. We will be loading up trucks, etc. Thursday night and Friday and doing the bulk of our moving on Friday. If anyone is available, please join us! We will be feeding you :)

Stay Tuned!

We are very excited to say that settlement has been worked out!

This is SUCH a blessing!! Sparing you all the boring and dramatic juicy details, the bottom line is that we will settle on both houses on August 8th. This will definitely effect the moving plans, but we aren't sure how yet, so stay tuned for more details. Occupancy permits will be needed if we plan to still move stuff this weekend, so maybe we will know more tomorrow.

Also tomorrow is our "Celebration" at the new house and we will have some more pictures tomorrow as well. Thanks for all of your prayers

Touch Ups and News

Well, no new pictures since everything except the yard is finished, but they have been busy fixing drywall, touching up paint and correcting errors. There's still a lot to do for touch ups, but it should all be finished up soon. Seeding is this week.

On a frustrating note, the people buying our house are on vacation this week, so we will probably have to change our settlement date back a week. We are not sure yet and may still be able to move stuff in next weekend, but won't know until Monday at the earliest. Needless to say this is not what we were hoping for, but in the long run, it really won't matter. We are just anxious to get moved in and settled. The home inspection on our house for the buyers went very well, only 1 minor repair that we can do in a few minutes with little to no expense. YEAH!

Stay Tuned!!!!

A Little Landscaping, etc.

Good Evening.

The walkway to the front door was landscaped on both sides, they mulched and put in a few plants and bushes.

When I stopped in this evening, they had installed the doorbell, finished the lights, (except the ones that were ordered wrong and need to be switched) cleaned up some things and finished the vent covers and switch plates.

We have an inspection tomorrow and then I guess we will get the final paint touch ups, final landscaping and seeding and odds and ends finished. It is looking great, but there are still lots of little things to be done.

Check back soon for more pictures.

Almost finished!

Once again, we are constantly amazed at the speed that things get finished. When we stopped by last night, all of the lighting fixtures were in and the appliances were in. The wire racks went in all the closets today and they hung mirrors in the bathrooms. The pocket door was installed in the kids' bathroom. There is A LOT of paint touch up and cleaning up to do and a list of minor things to be straightened out, but the final inspection is scheduled for Thursday.

We are still scheduled for settlement next week. We will post anything new as it happens.

Busy day!

Wow! We are still amazed every day that we go to the house and see how much they can accomplish in one day. All of the carpet was installed today, upstairs and down. All of the doorknobs are on and the exterior lights by the doors and the floodlight were also installed. The final grading was done and the landscapers will finish that up next week with raking and seeding. We were pleasantly surprised with the grade in the back, it is not as steep as we expected from the sliding door to the ground, 2 steps at most.

Check back next week. Enjoy the weekend!

The Important things in Life!!!

Well, the most important feature of the house was completed today...the toilets were installed. :)

In addition, all of the sinks received faucets and the water main was connected. The railings going upstairs and to the basement were installed, all of the kitchen lighting was finished. Switch plates and vent covers were started.

Tomorrow is grading outside and carpet inside. Our appliances are due to be installed on Tuesday and the final drywall repairs and paint touch ups will also be next week.

Keep checking back for more pictures. We are almost finished!!!

We have a kitchen!

The kitchen cabinets and countertops went in yesterday, as well as the 2 upstairs bathroom vanities. All the outlets and switch plates also got covers. Not sure what today will bring, but it is really starting to look like a house inside!

More good news...WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!!

Busy Week Ahead

No new pictures for today, but we were told that we have a lot of items on the schedule for this week. Kitchen cabinets and countertops, bathroom vanities and tops, outlet and switch covers, duct work covers, carpet, grading around the house and lighting are all on the schedule. Please check back frequently to see pictures this week.

PS - We got an offer on our house today!

Adura Planks are in!

WOW! We stopped by the house this afternoon to see if there was anything exciting and they had started the kitchen, foyer and powder room flooring. We stopped back this evening to get pictures and they were minutes from being finished! The color was actually not what we meant to order, but we really like it. It is the same flooring we have in our kitchen and dining room now, but a different shade. We think cabinets and countertops are next, they are all at the house and ready to be installed. Check back in a couple days! :)

What a nice surprise!

We were pleasantly surprised to see this afternoon they completed a lot more than we thought. All of the cabinetry was delivered. They installed vinyl flooring in the upstairs bathrooms and laundry, and completed the sub-flooring for where the plank flooring will be installed (the same stuff we have in our current kitchen and dining room for those of you who have seen that).

All of the Mannington Adura Plank flooring was delivered, maybe that will go in tomorrow??? I guess since we are now down to a few weeks this is the time they will start to fly through the rest of the construction! Anyone planning on helping us move, don't forget to mark Saturday August 2nd down on your calendar, we will be starting early. Check back again soon.

We're Back from the Beach!

HI, while we were away at the beach for July 4th they did a whole bunch of things. Since we last posted we have had the trim completed, they painted inside and out and completed the paving of our driveway.

This afternoon they also delivered the bathroom cultured marble tops and the kitchen counters. Between now and next Tuesday they are supposed to deliver flooring, cabinets and light fixtures - then install! As soon as there is more to share we will be back on. Take care.

Wood Trim & Doors

Now things are starting to pick up again. They delivered all of the paint today and are planning to paint tomorrow. The trim guys were there all day today (still working at 6pm) and told me they need to finish tonight - so that was good! After the trim and painting they will be putting in all of the finish products - that will be really cool! Please continue to check back.