Week 9 & 10

Sunday, Feb 17th--The kids and I were driving around due to a Sunday showing before church. Roof trusses up and starting to wrap the house--with whatever they wrap it in!?! I can tell they are making progress inside and even walked through, but didn't have my camera. This day, I didn't want to take the kids in.

Tuesday, Feb. 19th:

Today I got a chance to walk through the house after I dropped Zoe off at school. It was SO fun. The framers were there, but not quite started for the day. First, they have to build their fire--it seriously looks like we have squatters at the house when you drive up and they are all huddled around the fire cooking tamales & such. But even after the fire is started, they have to get their microwave all set up and stuff. It's really quite funny. I always say "hi" to them when I go over, but they all just look at me like they don't understand, but when I was walking through, they kept saying "be careful, be careful"--and I was. One of my phobias is walking over things that have openings in them so you can see below (think sidewalk grates!), so I really didn't love the stairs, but I did it.

Here are some photos, they will probably be hard to tell without the perspective of knowing the plans and seeing them--but I want to have them documented! The floor is wet and in some places you can see some snow from a little overnight snow that day.

The front door--from the foyer

Reed's office--from the same spot in the foyer.
The Great Room--from the eating area.
The stairs up from the great room--there will be a railing along the flat beam--so as you go up the stairway opens up to the great room. The wall above is Collin's room.

The kitchen--you can see the pantry in the corner.

The Mudroom--from the garage. You can see the kitchen windows at the end. Laundry Room is to the left off of the mudroom. (This is my favorite spot! )

Master BedRoom.

The stairs going up--from hallway to Master BR.The landing at the top of the stairs--view down to great room.Collin's Room--from landing.Avery's Room and Playroom--hard to tell where it starts and stops.View out of Easton's window--back of house and yard.The pictures of Zoe's room are hard to see--it just looks like framing.

The basement--this is where we will eventually set up our entertainment/TV area (after the basement is finished.

The area will be open for fun--big downstairs family room, with guest BR in the corner.

Many of you have asked what I ended up deciding for my appliances. I really appreciate all the feedback you all gave--it totally helped. I decided to go the fridge I really wanted--the freezer on the bottom with the french doors and the double ovens--over the advantium. But, with a twist, I changed all my appliances to black instead of stainless.

Partly I did this for the fingerprint issue. But also, I finished with the kitchen cabinets. They will be Maple in a color called Sundance with a Coffee glaze. They should be a light-midtone maple with a warmer tone. I picked the simplest door I could still put the glaze one (I wanted the glaze for the color, but a simple door) and will dress it up with handles. I really want things to not be too trendy and easy to live with. My door style is below--but it's not in the color.