Don't blink

It's been just a couple of days since I've last posted... HA!  Truth is life is crazy.  I left you at Day 35... today was Day 62!  I'm about to take you through the most intriguing parts of the last month and a half.

Master Suite

 Berkley's room

 Foyer room

 Emma Grace's room

 Reese's room :)

 The crane arrives to install the trusses.

 The girls are quite pleased. :)

 The girls' bathtub makes it's grand entrance into their bathroom.

 Back

 Front

 Reese's room

 Master suite

 Reese's room

 Tar paper... and snow flurries

 Going upstairs

 Master suite... windows

 Kitchen

 Front door

 Basement

 SHINGLES!

 Master suite

 Reese's room

 SIDING!

 Back

 CONCRETE!

 Reese's room

 Master suite

 Berk's room

 Hall foyer

 EG's room

 Going downstairs

 Bryan builds a mailbox.

 Bryan installs concrete board to begin tiling bathrooms/laundry room.

 Great room

 Breakfast nook

 Kitchen

By the end of the week the following is supposed to be done:
~Brick (Hasn't even been started!  This project is nearly a month behind schedule.  The first guy failed to show up.  The second guy was dead... not funny... but kind of funny.  The third guy showed up yesterday with no water for his mortar... seriously?)
~Pouring of the concrete for the porch and garage (Can't be finished until the brick is done on the lower part of the house.)
~Siding/Cedar Shake on the front (Can't be finished until the porch concrete is poured, which can't be finished until the brick is done... DOMINO EFFECT!)
~Drywall
~Painting should be started Friday.

We have a C/O date of December 20.  It's been the same date all along despite delays, people not showing up, weather, rock... our general contractor is awesome and has a ridiculous amount of people in there working at one time. 

We've begun packing here at the rental, which is slow moving due to the holidays.  I pulled out the bare necessities when it comes to Christmas decor, which makes me sad.  Hopefully the remainder of this project will go off without a hitch, and we'll be spending Christmas Day in our new home!

Old and new unite...

Friday we closed on our loan.  AWESOME.  We also ran around town getting all of our forms notarized etc. for the construction loan.  Talk about a production... FOR REAL... you think they'd just have all that stuff in the same building.  Oy.  Yesterday we went in to the builders' office, I met our general contractor Curtis, and we had our pre-construction meeting.  Hammering out all the minor details that pack a big punch... you know... outlets, pipe placement in the basement for a future bathroom... BOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRING.  While Bryan dealt with that, and I initialed when I needed to, I went around and took pictures of all of our finishes.  This was super fun for me because I'm VERY excited to mix brand new finishes with older finishes with all of my pickin' projects.  It's a nice yin and yang effect.

Let's start with the kitchen. 

 (Style... not color... cabinets are above, and all of our hardware is a brushed nickel.)

 Our granite.  We'll be traveling down to High Point, NC to pick the exact slab we want (and we'll hopefully pick up some inexpensive pieces for the bathrooms as well... right now we just have standard bathroom counter top).

Here are the finishes in the master bath.  This is the tile that will be surrounding my new best friend... my soaker tub.

 The faucet on the top will be in the master bath, and the bottom one will be in the remaining two baths.

 Master cabinetry...

... in this style... but with my own mirrors.

This is the carpeting for the upstairs.  Downstairs we'll have hardwoods throughout... Bryan will be doing them himself. :)  We have to have flooring in the entire house before we can occupy it.  The plan is to tile the two bathrooms upstairs as well, but we did choose vinyl JUST IN CASE.  If anything we have them install the vinyl, and then those are two projects for Bryan to do soon after.

 The cabinetry in the girls' bathroom is identical to that in the kitchen.

 Guest bathroom downstairs.

 This is the appearance of the bathroom cabinetry and lighting.  I'll add my own mirrors.

More big news... we're scheduled to break ground week after next!