We've been busy!!!

Oh my gosh, it has been a busy week. So hard to believe but in one week the entire house has been drywalled and mudded  and we'll be ready for priming on Tues/Wed. The house actually looks more and more like a house with all of the walls up.

This is a view of the garage

Standing in the dining area looking at front door, thats a closet  and the hallway to the bedrooms.

Our master bedroom, walk in closet and ensuite to the left

Hallway, main bath to the left the kids bedrooms are to the right, linen closet in front and our master to far left

I also ended up making changes to the kitchen - AGAIN lol!  Poor Brad from Leggo kitchens has been so great. He met with me again this past week and the place where they manufacture the kitchen so that I could get a better look at the cabinet colour that I had chosen. I am so glad I did. I had chosen a colour that had a mocha glaze over top, which looks amazing on a door that has more detail, edges etc. because the glaze has more edges to sit in. The door panels that I chose are fairly simple and there would only have been glaze around the outer edge. So, I ended up changing it completely. I ended up changing from maple to oak cabinets and going from mocha glaze colour to Truffle.  I kept the kitchen vanities in a colour called Chocolate - it sounds darker than it is. It is actually similar to the cabinet colour I picked before, just without the glaze.

We went Thursday to Aallstone in Brantford to pick out our granite and chose one called Blanco Antique. It is really pretty. The slab we saw had these big chunks or brownish coloured crystals in it, looks cool. They need to order a couple of slabs in for us and then we get to go in and decide how we want to use the granite. So basically we get to look at the slabs and decide which area they will use for the island etc.

This is the cabinet colour with the granite we picked in behind. Photos don't do it justice, it looks so nice.
 

Today I bought a new duvet cover for my room, it is a dark brown, taupe and an icy blue colour. So in our bedroom I am doing one wall in the icy blue, and the rest of the walls in a taupy colour. Then carrying the icy blue onto the walls of the ensuite. I'm excited about changing up my bedroom. We've always had taupes and reds in our room. This will be a nice little switch. Im having my sister who is a talented artist do some artwork for the room as well.

Today we went shopping for tiles and flooring. For the ensuite I chose a 12x24 tile for the floor, it has a lot of variation in it, brown, grey, blue, taupe...chose a chocolate brown tile for the interior of the shower. The shower floor will be 2x2's of the same tile as the washroom floor and we chose a mosaic tile for accent in the shower that also has matching tiles from the floor. It is going to look nice I think.

It's hard to really see the colour in the tiles but the icy blue that we are putting on the walls is in the tiles

 We also picked out the tile for the main bath, more neutral for this room.

The 5x8 beige tile is what is going in the bath surround, and the mosaic tile is the accents for in the surround.

We changed our minds on the hardwood as well. We went from maple to oak, since we are now having oak kitchen cabinets. It is fairly dark but there is a lot of natural light in that room and I think it will look good. Because the granite has a white background we also went with a white tile with a swirl of brown in it.

Not the best picture, it doesn't really show the colours well

 

Last but not least was the backsplash for the kitchen. We went with a natural stone, subway tile in neutral tones. It will also go in behind the stainless steel hood fan all the way up to the ceiling.

 

 

We were going to go with carpet in the bedrooms but they gave us such a good deal on the hardwood that we figured by the time we bought a decent carpet, underpad and pay for installation we'd be better off with the hardwood. I've always liked the feeling of carpet on my feet when I get out of bed, but both kids and Glen have allergies so hardwood might actually be the best way to go.

 

This is the colour for the kitchen/dining room far left wall and the wall on the far right - its called Hale Village

 

 And this colour for the wall with the windows that you face when you walk in to the house, as well as the wall at the front entrance, this will go down the hall as well and mudroom. It's called Desert Castle.

 

 

 We also moved a ton of packed boxes to the house already. There is a big storage/cold cellar and we've moved them all in there for now. We have to be out of our house by March 28th, but we want to be out before then because that is actually Easter weekend.

 

What a productive week!  Hopefully we keep this up!