Heart of the Home!

The kitchen is in! It looks great I love it. The colour looks good, I love all of the soft close drawers and cupboard doors. The granite should hopefully be in next week.
Brad from Leggo Kitchens in Woodstock did such a great job. He has been such a pleasure to work with.
Check out their website at www.leggokitchens.ca

The island will be such a great space when it is done. And I am sure once the granite is in the kitchen is going to look different, again.
Although you can't tell with the cardboard on the floor, the kitchen looks really nice with the hardwood floors.

The vanities are in too, but I couldn't get a pic of those yet. Everything is coming together.

I'd hoped we would be able to be in the house this weekend but that won't happen. The stairs are getting started tomorrow, not sure how long it will take to do them. We can only have the inspector come after the stairs, railing and trim is done. Then once we have our occupancy permit we can move in.

I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed again. I woke up with a stiff neck this morning- not good! Sleeping on a double mattress on the floor with pillows that aren't the greatest is not fun.

Once we move in there is still going to be so much work to do. The brick work won't get started for another couple of weeks, hopefully the weather will cooperate. This weather has been crazy - warm, raining, now expecting winter storm watch?! It's April! And of course all of the outside work that needs to be done - grading, seeding for grass, landscaping, fence ....the list goes on and on.

Kitchen going in

After a busy weekend of painting trim and doors we are ready for a productive week.
The kitchen was delivered today and install started. It will,let be done tomorrow along with the bathroom vanities.

Leggo Kitchens has really done a great job! Here is what's done so far, can't wait to see the finished product tomorrow

On a roll...

The Easter weekend put us back a bit but we still managed to get a lot done this weekend. The main bath has a working toilet and tub now all we are waiting on is the vanity when it comes in next week.

Here are some more recent pics. There is still some cardboard on the floors to protect them a bit...

The garage doesn't look so big with all of our stuff in it!



View from front door looking in to kitchen/dining area.




View from front door looking into family room area



Part of our ensuite bath. There will be 2 showers installed on either side of the shower.



Entrance from the garage - mudroom




Master bedroom



Main bath - I thought I got a better pic of this that caught the floor but I guess not. The floor is just a neutral tile. This pics makes it look kind of yellowish. It isn't, they are neutral tones..

We got our trim, doors and wood for the stairs delivered last night. We have a lot of priming, painting and staining to do.  We got a really good deal, better than if we'd gone through big box store for trim/doors. And these are all wood, no mdf. The guy who did it for us is out of Delhi. We got a shaker style trim because I didn't want anything fancy or too curvy looking. And the interior doors mimic the front door.

Next Monday the kitchen and vanities get installed! We are getting closer - as long as we can get the guy to come back and install the stairs soon.

Getting closer...

After calling and emailing just about every flooring store and distributor from here to what feels like the ends of the Earth I have found the hardwood floors need in Guelph. We have to pick it up on Tuesday. So that is a relief. 

Other than that the floors are in, grouting done, tile work in bathrooms are done.

We went to a place in Concord, up by Vaughan Mills area to buy lighting. Well worth the drive! It's called Galaxy Lighting, open to public Mon to Fri from 9-3. Prices were amazing. We got a pendant lantern for outside our front door, a matching light for back patio, fixtures for foyer, dining room, our bedroom and 2 vanity lights for 360$ no tax, cash only. I would recommend it if you are replacing some lighting. We've already hung the lighting and it looks great.

We also got everything done for the granite counter top. Went and picked out our slabs and mapped out how we want them cut. 

Went to pick out brick and stone for the house. Went with a brown brick called Ashford and a stone called French Country. 

We closed on our house yesterday. It was a bit emotional for me. I'm glad the house is going to be going to a nice family. 

Tomorrow I will go over to give the floors a good cleaning to avoid any damage to the hardwood. The trim and wood for the stairs should be in soon and we will be busy with priming, painting and staining. 

Keep on movin'

Well despite the fact that we've run out of hardwood floor, work continues. They've started laying the tiles and that should be done by end of day tomorrow. Ready for grouting on Monday. As for the hardwood floors, I give up. I have emailed and called about 50 different flooring stores and no one carries the same wood. I went to the house today and there is about 2 rows of flooring left to do in my daughters room, the inside of her closet and the inside of my sons closet. I need about 4 boxes of the hardwood floor to finish it. Looks like we are going to have to wait the 2 months before it comes in. What a disappointment. But it could have been worse I suppose.
I wish I had taken some pictures but most of the floor was covered with cardboard to protect it.

Ceramic floors are done in the main bath and ensuite. they just need grout. The ensuite floor tiles look great with the Wythe Blue walls.

The mini pendant lights for above the island are in and I'd almost forgotten what they looked like. They almost look like a leopard print...they're fun!

Garage doors are in too. Nothing fancy, they are a light taupe colour.

We are going to be doing our final move this weekend and shack up with the in laws for a few weeks while the house is getting done. Our closing date is March 28th but that is Easter weekend and I really don't want to be moving or unpacking anything that weekend.

I'll have to try getting a few pics this weekend at the house.

Freaking out!

We've run out of hardwood floor!!! We are short about 6 boxes. He wasn't able to get the rest of my daughter's room done and none of the closets. The place we bought it from says they can't get anymore for 2 months! What??!!

So now I'm spending my evening surfing the net trying to find a supplier out there that will be able to get us the floor.

Painted! Ready for Floors

I have to say that I am so impressed with the guys we hired to do the work over the last 2 weeks at the house. Glenn Staats out of Oshweeken did an amazing job for us. He did the insulating, drywall, taping, mudding, priming, and painted all the entire house - including the garage lol!

I used 2 colours in the main great room of the house. 2 walls have a darker colour and then a lighter colour on the opposite walls. These are the windows looking out from both the dining room and living area.

This is the wall where the kitchen cabinets will go and on the far right the dining table area

The 2 contrasting colours

She loves her "Lavender Sparkle" room

He is liking his "Shadow Play" room

Our Master bedroom -Wythe Blue on one wall and Brushwood on the other 3 walls. We also used the Wythe Blue in the ensuite bath.

 Tomorrow we have someone going in to start on the hardwood floors. I can't wait to see it in.
Kitchen gets installed in 3 weeks,  We'll be at the inlaws as of this weekend so we'll have a few weeks before we can move into our house. It won't be too bad. Hopefully the time goes by quickly.