Week 9-- Front Porches, Flooring, Stone Siding and TRIM!!!!!

Okay. So- let's just start out by saying that trim week is most definitely the most exciting week after framing, haha! I absolutely LOVE how everything went this week. Well, almost.

We got our hardwood, ceramic tile and vinyl flooring installed.

Trim carpenters came in and started on the trim.  Kitchen cabinets were installed {and they're gorgeous} as well as vanities in both bathrooms.

Our front porch was poured, FINALLY.  No steps leading up to it yet, but yay for a front porch! Can't wait to enjoy those Friday beers on the front porch like hubby and I agreed on :-)

Stone siding was also installed!  I adore it and it pulls everything together so nicely.  So nicely that you get to see a picture of it already!

We did our normal visits, on Tuesday, Thursday and a weekend day {Saturday and Sunday this week}.  Tuesday ended up causing A LOT of drama and it's ongoing drama at this point.  We are still experiencing The Great Flooring Debacle and still don't have a solid answer on that yet.  I'm not gonna dwell on it in this post though.  I've cried a ton and it's stressed me out to no end.  So once we have an answer as to what's gonna happen, I'll let y'all know.

We noticed a couple of small issues, which I'll show in photos as well.  Obviously, the vinyl flooring is an issue right now.  We noticed some dents and dings in the siding that is right next to the front door.  And we also noticed that the front door looks small.  There's light going all around the door like it doesn't fit fully in the door frame.  Some of our hardwood flooring looks like it has been cut too short, but I also noticed that a lot of that was resolved on our later visits during the week.

And now for the photos!  I'll try to keep them in chronological order by the days we visited, haha!!

First up is our front porch FINALLY being poured!  I did a light step from the front door onto the porch and it still seemed a bit wet so we didn't walk on it the first day!

Inside the garage.  I was so bummed that we haven't seen any "surprises" when we open the garage door. I so wanted to see boxes of cabinets, trim, etc.  They've all been installed or starting to be installed at this point!  Notice though, we FINALLY have steps from the garage door.  No more jumping up and down to get into the house!

Love those gorgeous cardboard floors! So glad we upgraded to cardboard ;-)

Sneak peek of the hardwood. This is in the morning room.

Our gorgeous hardwood floors.

Vinyl Flooring that I HATE and don't think is correct.

Sneak peek of the ceramic tile in the master bath

Listello tile detail in our master bath shower

Up close of the listello tile in our master bathroom.  I LOVE this!

Master bath. Tub and shower view {the shower has a seat!}

Master Bath

Master bath close up of listello and tile. This is on the tub

Master bath

Railing has been installed!

Trim started! Double vanity in the hall bath, along with the sample of our supposed vinyl.  Please note: I plan on staining these cabinets down the road to be the maple espresso color that our other cabinets are.

Kitchen!  I'm actually not hating the island as much as I thought I would.  I still think I want to have the extended "gourmet" island with the table, but this little island doesn't make me sad.

Railing in the basement was installed too

Walls have been prepped on the porch and garage for our stone!

Sunday visit! Check out everything that has been done!!

Rails have been stained! Basement rails here.

Close up of basement rails!

Trim photo.  All of the house has the baseboard and door frames trimmed out.

Kitchen Island

More kitchen cabinets! We measured for a potential fridge today too 

Morning room view into the kitchen

Pantry to the left, family entry to the right

Family room.  Pretty sure our sectional will be going on this wall.

Foyer. Check out the light coming through the door.  Not sure if this is "normal" or not, but I don't like that it appears like the door doesn't fit in the frame

shhhh. Don't tell anyone.  The house was completely locked. Couldn't get the garage door up, so I climbed up the front porch and through the window ;-)

Our gorgeous stone.  A piece on the bottom was off when we were there.

Because our house sits higher up, we were surprised at our pre-construction meeting by being told that we get porch railing.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

Porch columns were installed too

View from the front door into the foyer

Railing upstairs has been stained too

Stacks of doors in the bedroom

Another view of the stained railing.  Whoever did it was messy.  There's stain on the walls and stairs and floors.  Luckily we get more paint and carpet isn't installed yet

big ole giant mirror in our master bedroom that will be going on the wall in the bathroom.

vanity in master bath

Damn vinyl flooring.

Front porch view.

More front porch.

Columns <3

I hope they clean the yuck up there.  But look at that gorgeous stone.

Problem photos. Check em out:


Rail staining.

We chose "Dark Oak" as our railing color during our selection meeting.  So look at the photo from our selections, and then check out what's on the rails.  I asked {and am waiting for an answer} to find out if it will end up lighter.... I'm a little concerned that once again, something isn't right.
The difference is- this time I kinda like the darker stain.  It matches our cabinetry in the kitchen and looks pretty sharp with the white balusters.  Not sure I wanna change it, but I still will be pursuing whether or not this is correct or not.  So yay for ANOTHER headache and stress-starter.

Siding issues.  We noticed there are quite a few dings and dents in the siding that is right by the front door.

And, if you've made it this far, you're rewarded with a video!  Shot a GoPro video while we were out there today.  Sound isn't the greatest and I was frustrated because my wifi wasn't connecting between my phone and the GoPro.  And it was hot out there.

Anyways.  Video :-)  Enjoy!

Can't wait to figure out what happens next for us! Not sure what it is, since our PM hasn't emailed us to let us know. But, for what it's worth- he's probably irritated with us and the whole flooring issue.  haha!  Have a great week everyone!!!