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!

Insullation in...getting warmer...

From one day to the next the basement and main floor are now fully insullated. They work fast!

We also met with Brad from Leggo Kitchens who we have hired to do our kitchen and bathroom vanities. Of all of the kitchen suppliers that we went to for quotes Brad was the absolute easiest to deal with, not to mention he gave us the most reasonable price. So far we are very pleased with his work. I can't wait to see the final product. We picked out colours today for the kitchen cabinets and vanities. We went with a medium tone with a darker glaze on it, its called Mocha Glaze. At first I was leaning towards the darker browns but I worried about whether 5-6 years down the road would it still be something I loved? I guess we played it safe but I do like it and I think it will look nice. I'm a bit worried about what it will look like with our dining room set (which I am not crazy about). The dining room set has a reddish undertone to it and it is pretty dark. But I didn't want to design the kitchen around the dining room set, which can be easily replaced. The kitchen is pretty perminent. The picture below is the colour for all of the cabinets including bathroom vanities. The colour swatch on top is the pick for the bathroom vanities. We still have to go pick out the granite for the kitchen...but I have seen one that I like called Sienna Bordeaux.

 

Above is the granit I had picked out before. Brad is going to get us a piece of maple stained and glazed the way we want it so that we can take it with us when we go to pick out the granite. I also need to go get a sample piece of the ceramic tile and hardwood floors we picked out.

We had already gone out and had a look at flooring and picked these out, but this was before we picked out cabinets so this might change.Its a maple 8" planks, hand scraped and distressed hardwood, and the tiels are 18x18 ceramics.

The next couple of weeks are going to get busy!

Electrical Passed!

I couldn't be prouder of my hubby! We had our electrical inspection today and we passed with flying colours. They didn't even need to go down to the basement and check out the electrical panel. They saw that he had done such a nice job on the main level he didn't feel like he needed to go downstairs.
Tomorrow the dry wall guys start first thing in the morning to start installing insullation and drywall.

Oscar is watching the kids out the window...Guard Dog!

Ready for insullation and drywall tomorrow

Finally settled on Kitchen design

After a couple of months of going to different cabinet makers for pricing and designs we have finally settled on a design by Leggo Kitchens from Woodstock. He was very easy to deal with, very accommodating and gave us a great price.

 This is the design for the kitchen. I liked the staggered look of the cabinets and the wine rack. Over the stove we've decided to do a stainless steel hood fan like the one above. The island we have changed the design of again so that it is all one level rather than having the one side drop down to table height. I like the idea of there being more counter space to work with, it will also be a good surface for putting food and stuff on for get togethers. And if people come over and I'm in the kitchen when they sit at the island we'll be eye to eye.

Now we just have to go finalize the colour of the cabinets and counter tops, hardware etc. But at least we are settled on our "guy". We went through a few to find him but he is great.

Brick pick...

I've picked colours/finishes for the exterior of the house...

Morning smoke is the colour of the brick, weatherwood for the roof and that small sample is the colour for the garage doors and exterior trim and fascia on the house. The front door is a mahogany stained door.

This is the outdoor pendant light for the front entrance, in front of the mahogany door.

Now we just need some nice weather so that we can get the exterior work started!

Wires, wires and more wires!

No new pics to post but we have some more progress. Hubby has been working his butt off every day after work. As of today we are officially ready for insulation and drywall. He has wired the whole house for hydro, lights, cable, computers, and speaker systems. We had the alarm system installed this weekend too. We have contracted someone to come and do the insulation and drywall next week after our inspection for the electrical is done on Wednesday.
Wish us luck!

Slow and Steady...Oh and SOLD!!!

My posts are falling behind, but only because this dumb blogger site won't always let me post pics! So our house sold. Our closing date is March 28th. Our house won't be ready by then I'm sure so we'll have to go stay with my in laws for at least a month. We are hoping for end of April for our place to be ready, but it is hard to predict at this point.

Anyway, the roof is on and shingled. We have windows, which look so good. We got windows with pewter grills on the inside, and the grills are just along the outsides of the window not through the window like most windows have. The pewter is really subtle and looks nice.
My hubby has literally been working his butt off  - literally - he has lost quite a bit of weight the bastard! He works from 6-2 everyday and then heads over to the house and works there until supper time. He'll come home and eat and then go back and work till about 930-10 almost every night. He has had a hand in almost every step in the progress so far. The furnace and water heater are in. The duct work is done. We have our inspection by Union Gas tomorrow to make sure everything is in good order. He has been working on the electrical and has a lot done so far. I have to give credit where credit is due. He will really be able to say that he helped build his family home.

The plumbing is getting done the a contractor friend out of Mount Pleasant. This will at least be getting done through the day and then hubby can go in and continue to work on the electrical. We were hoping to be able to start drywalling soon.

We are almost settled on the kitchen design and I think this is what we are going with more or less.

This is the colour I'm thinking for the cabinetsThis is kind of what I'm thinking for the counter top. I found one I like but I couldn't find the exact picture of it online. But I think it was similar to this.

 

Getting busy picking out things like lighting now too. And I've started packing  - I hate packing.

 

Anyway, no new pics of the house yet but nothing really worth taking pics of right now. But I will continue to keep you posted on our progress.