Interior Walls are Primed!

1st PHOTO: Family Room
2nd PHOTO: Master Bedroom
3rd PHOTO: Kitchen
4th and 5th PHOTOS: Craft Room Counter Top

Yesterday, the painters came out and primed the interior walls, trim, and ceilings. They primed the walls with the true paint color - light ledge stone - a light beige. The trim will be an egg shell color, and the ceilings will be white. It looks great, so far!
This week, the trim guys are coming out to finish up some closet shelving. Also, painters are coming out to continue with more coats of paint. The granite counter tops will be installed later this week, as well as the tile floors. As for the exterior, we are hoping to have a few loads of dirt delivered to bring up the lost a bit for the driveways. We still need to have the stone veneer put on, as well as have the exterior painted. So much done, yet so much left to do...

Siding is complete

I forgot to post this pic yesterday. The siding is complete. The front just needs a bit of metal roofing, after the siding gets painted (hopefully next week). Also, after the painting is complete, the stone masons will come out and hang the stone veneer across the bottom of the front of the house.

Interior Trim and Doors are In!

Updates, but no pics tonight. There was too much going on today to take pics. Hope to take some either tomorrow or Sunday. Today, the trim guys installed 99% of the interior trim and doors. That includes crown molding, baseboards, cased openings, closet shelves and window casings. They will be back on Monday to finish up the shelves in the pantry. The house is looking more and more like "home" now. Also, the craft room counters were installed today - love them! They are a grayish/black laminate. The painters are coming out tomorrow and priming the interior walls. Bring it on!! :)

Garage Steps and Siding...

Yesterday, the garage steps were made and installed. The siding guys finished up the right side of the house, and started on the front. They are going to finish the front today. The dry wallers should be sanding today, and the trim guys should be hanging trim and interior doors tomorrow. Painters are still on for Saturday to prime.
1st PHOTO: Steps in main garage, leading into the main floor
2nd PHOTO: Right side of house, grille deck
3rd PHOTO: Right side of house, siding complete
4th PHOTO: Front of house

Updates...

No new pics today. Things look pretty much the same inside. The drywall mud is drying, hoping they can sand it on Thursday. Trim will be installed on Friday. The painters will prime the walls/ceilings on Saturday. The siding crew is working on the 3rd side of the house. The front of the house will be the last, and hopefully the quickest, since it's so narrow and some of it will be stone, in lieu of siding. We're waiting for the grinder pump to be installed, as well as one or two other underground utlilites. Once that happens, we can really work on the "yard" and figure out how many loads of dirt/top soil we'll need. We hope to have our driveways poured the end of next week. We're so close, yet so far away...

Craft Room Cabinets

Here is the craft room/office. We are very happy with how it looks, so far. The opening in the cabinets is for a peninsula type desk, similiar to what we had in the last house.

Cabinets 1 of 2

All of our cabinets were installed today. They look great! The house is very dusty, hence the poor quality of pictures.
1st PHOTO: Kitchen Island - Dishwasher on left, sink in middle
2nd PHOTO: Cabinets behind island - Cook-top and vent in the middle
3rd PHOTO: Side Wall - Refrigerator in middle, double oven on right
4th PHOTO: Butler's Pantry

Cabinets 2 of 2

1st PHOTO: Master Bath
2nd PHOTO: Guest Bath
3rd PHOTO: Laundry Room - above washer/dryer
4th PHOTO: Laundry Room - sink base
5th PHOTO: Kids' Bath

More Siding...

On Friday, the siding crew worked on the back of the house. They finished up the screened porch siding yesterday. On Monday, they'll start on the right side of the house. This morning, Chris and 2 guys are installing the cabinets for the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room, and craft room. Can't wait to see them!! Pics to follow...

Drywall 3 of 3

1st PHOTO: Main Garage - windows face the front of the house, side load garage.
2nd PHOTO: Main Garage (scaffolding is for the siding crew)
3rd PHOTO: Craft Room/Office - facing the front of the house
4th PHOTO: Craft Room/Office

The drywall guys came out today and out the tape coat on. They will come back out tomorrow and put another coat on the drywall. The masons are coming out to build the steps for the front porch. The siding crew will be back out as well to work on the back of the house.

Drywall 2 of 3

1st PHOTO: Bonus Room, upstairs
2nd PHOTO: Guest Bedroom, upstairs
3rd PHOTO: Bedroom 2
4th PHOTO: Bedroom 3
5th PHOTO: Kitchen - half wall is for island. Behind island will be cooktop. To left will be double wall oven and fridge. Opening behind kitchen - butler's pantry to the left and food pantry to the right.

Drywall Part 1 of 3

1st PHOTO: Basement Garage - from the front, looking to the back. Garage door on right, unfinished basement on left.
2nd PHOTO: Basement Garage - from the back, looking to the front.
3rd PHOTO: Family Room - from the kitchen looking to the back of the house.
4th PHOTO: Breakfast Area/Kitchen - from the family room, looking to the front of the house. Grille deck to the left, front door straight and to the right.
5th PHOTO: Master Bedroom, from the bedroom doorway looking to the back of the house. Chris designed the shelf to go above the bed to display pictures.

Dry Wall is messy...

Here is a pic from last night. At 6:30 last evening, the drywallers were putting up the last few pieces of drywall in the basement stairway. The house was a complete mess - there were scraps of drwall everywhere. This morning, another drywall crew came in and cleaned up all of the scraps and swept the house. This afternoon, a different drywall crew came in started putting up tape and mud. We're heading to the house in a bit. Hopefully the house is a bit cleaner than last night. Pics to follow. The photo is from the back of the house looking forward into the kitchen area.

1 side done, 3 more to go...

The siding guys finished up the 1st side yesterday. Depending on the weather (we're forecasted to get rain today), they hope to work some today. Also, the drywall crew is coming out this morning to hang the drywall. Chris says it should only take a half day to hang it, and then about 3-4 days to tape, mud, and sand it. I cannot wait to see the house later today with drywall up!! Many pics to come asap!!

Siding, Insulation, and Concrete

Another busy Monday at the house! The siding crew came out and started putting up the siding. It is primed at the factory, and will be painted once it is all hung/caulked, etc. The siding is a type of fiber cement, similar to what we used with our last house. The concrete guys came out and poured the floor for the main garage, as well as the front "porch". It's really too small to be called a porch, but it'll be the landing from the front door, leading down some slate/stone steps to a sidewalk. And the insulators came out and hung the batting/traditional batting. We are on for an insulation inspection tomorrow, and the dry wallers are on stand-by - ready to come hang drywall asap. We are hoping to have the base cabinets installed in the kitchen on Saturday, so that on Monday, the granite company can come out and get a template for our granite slab. It's getting there...slowly, but surely...
1st PHOTO: Main garage floor with concrete
2nd PHOTO: Siding on the left side of the house, behind main garage
3rd PHOTO: Concrete slab at the bottom of the future steps leading from the front door. Chris added the kids' initials to the concrete while it was still wet. Sweet gesture. (yes, it will be covered...)
4th PHOTO: Front door stoop with concrete
5th PHOTO: Same as photo 3 - wider view

Insulation Part 1

Here are a couple of pics of the spray foam insulation that was done today. They insulated all of the exterior facing walls. Tomorrow, they will finish up with traditional batting insulation. Monday morning will be the insulation inspection, then the dry wallers can begin.
TOP PHOTO: Wall in family room
BOTTOM PHOTO: Family room, standing in the breakfast area, looking to the back of the house

Shingles today, Insulation tomorrow...

It was a very busy day at the house today. The electricians finished up their rough-ins. The roofers put most of the shigles on. We passed our big inspection - framing, electrical, HVAC, and plumbing. The insulators are coming tomorrow to blow insulation, and then another crew will come on Friday to hang the regular insulation. Our goal with this house is to be as energy effecient as possible. We hope to have an insulation inspection on Monday, so the drywallers can start to hang drywall Monday afternoon.

Framing Pics 1 of 3

Here are some more framing pics of the main floor. There are 2 additional posts below, of more framing pics and of this week's plan.
1st PHOTO: Master Bedroom, the framing btwn the windows is a mistake. It will be a ledge to put pictures on, instead of a full shelf down to the floor (framers will fix it tomorrow).
2nd PHOTO: View from the screened porch. The screened porch comes off the family room, as well as the master bedroom. Pretty view!
3rd PHOTO: View from the back of the house, looking to the front. Family Room, then breakfast area, then kitchen, then pantry, then office/craft room.
4th PHOTO: Corner fireplace in family room.
5th PHOTO: Grille Deck, off breakfast area.