Cabinets, Part I

This weekend part of the kitchen cabinets went in! We are so excited- so far they look great and we can't wait to see how it all comes together.

January Update

Besides the installation of lighting, not a whole lot has gone on at the house in the past month- hence the lack of updates! Things are going to get rolling, though, so it was time for an update!

At the end of December the majority of the lighting went in! Everything looks awesome! Love our porch light:

And our fans/kitchen lighting:

And our West Elm dining room fixture. Can't wait to see it all come together with furniture! 

Since the beginning of construction the house was either blisteringly hot inside or freezing! I think the kids started to dread going to the house because for the past few months it's been colder inside the house than outside. Today, though, for the first time ever it was WARM inside! The heat was on! It was such a treat :) The floors are going to be sanded and stained next week, so we had a chance to look around the house today in our socks (it got a nice clean prior to the floor work that will be done) and had a blast going around the house testing out all of the light switches :) 

Hopefully I will keep on top of updates- lots of fun stuff will be happening in February! We are estimating an end of the month completion. The next big thing is the beginning of the cabinet installation and picking out the flooring color. We will see how that goes- it is the #1 thing Eric and I have disagreed about! Hopefully we will agree on a color that makes us both happy :) Stay tuned! 

Progress!

So much progress is being made on the house this week! Here are some photos:

First Floor Guest Bath. The grout will be a light grey color. 

My "office" closet. Love! 

Anderson's bedroom. He insisted on it being green. After trying out a buunch of samples we decided to go with the color of their current playroom and I'm so glad. 

Kid's bathroom.

View from kid's bath to Anderson's room. Loving the trim!

Emery wanted her room to be pink (surprise, surprise!) and she definitely got her wish! We got to the house just after sunset so who knows what it will look like in the day but it sure was pink! She LOVED it, though, so that's all that matters. :)

Updates!

The house is coming along! The drywall was floated and taped and then we had to wait for it to dry. Kind of hard when we were experiencing some very cold, wet days! 

Once everything was dry the guys textured the walls and this week the trim went up! We are LOVE LOVE LOVING it. So pretty :) 

The shelving and hanging bars have been installed in the closets. This house is going to have so much storage. I'm so excited!

Our fabulous doors went in. We are so glad we splurged for the more expensive ones! They are going to look so awesome once the doorknobs are on there! 

Couldn't remember if I'd posted a picture of our gorgeous back patio. Our architect did an amazing job designing it, and our builder did an awesome job building it! Those squares will eventually be covered in screens that can be removed. We can't wait to spend time out there!

This week we've been working on picking paint colors. The only room giving me trouble is Anderson's room! He wants it to be green, but I'm having such a hard time find a good green that isn't too blue or too limey. I'll post our final selections once we have made them! 

Tree Trimming

Before:

After:

Big change, but the good news is that we can now see our gorgeous second story :)

Insulation and Drywall

It has been a busy few days at the house. First insulation went in, then it was inspected. Now drywall is going in, next it will be inspected. There are real walls now!

The screen porch is starting to come together. It is going to be a great space for our family.

The columns were finished out and painted. Love them!

Today the tree trimmers came by to clean up the trees front and back. See those pretty light green limbs in the photo above? Totally gone now! It was a huge shock to drive up to the house to see that ash tree totally naked, but I guess it needed to be done. It will take some getting used to- hopefully in the summer it will fill out and look great! Makes me realize even more now that we really need to figure out landscaping as soon as the house is done. We need a little lipgloss on this beautiful girl! 

Porch Stain

Eric and I had a really hard time picking out a stain color for the front door and the front and back porch ceiling. There are some restaurants and swanky bars around town that have gorgeous stained ceilings, but we just couldn't seem to find a color that went well with the house color and was something we would be willing to put on our gorgeous custom made front door.

Luckily in a moment of desperation I remembered that some friends of ours have a really beautiful wood exterior on part of their house and the stain color is awesome. A few texts and a trip to Sherwin Williams later and we had a color we both loved!

Here's the sample board we used. The color we chose is the sample on the bottom.

Here it is in action. So pretty! 

Another picture :) Gorgeous! Can't wait to see it with the new door!