Another week has come and gone in this home building process! And this was an exciting week!
Our siding was finished on Thursday! I'll tell y'all what... I have had some bad dreams about our siding on the days leading up to it getting started. We chose Irish Thistle as our main siding color, with Sandy Tan for the shake and then our shutters are Dark Berry.
You can see our selections here:
Click Me! if you haven't seen them yet. They're also on one of the pages at the top of the blog ;-)
But yeah. Bad dreams. I don't know if I have said it on here before, but my house building dreams have been just like having wedding dreams! This week, with siding going up, I've had some pretty vivid dreams of some horribly green siding that looks awful on the house.
Luckily, visiting the house this week, that was not the case! I am in LOVE with our siding, I love it paired up with the shake and the tan color garage door and trim, and I love it with the dark berry shutters. It really really looks like a house now!
They also finished up the drywall this week, and got the first coat of paint on the walls {aka: it's been primed}. Even inside is starting to "feel" like a real house!
Other news on the house front: we got a date nailed down for our Pre-Settlement walk through. We ended up having to schedule it the day before we close. I'm not a fan of that at all, but unfortunately, our PM wouldn't budge from this particular date. If we moved it farther into July, then it's cutting it too close to the end of the month, and we really really really don't want to have to worry about signing an even longer lease with the town home we are in now. So, our Pre-Settlement date is set for July 25th, and then we close the next day. Fingers crossed we don't have TOO many issues during pre-settlement that need to be addressed before we close.
Up next for house progress, per our PM: They'll start installing hard surface flooring on Monday and then the trim carpenter is set to come in on Friday.
We did go out to the house today {Saturday} hoping to see some deliveries or something in the garage. No surprises though. Just an empty garage.
Well, actually. I take that back-- we did have ONE surprise! We were locked out of the house! The door in the garage was locked, as well as the basement door and the front door!!! We had to go back up to the model home to get keys from the SR!
I am secretly hoping that they were just locked because it was the weekend. I don't know if I am ready to be locked out already. I enjoy going out twice a week to check on the progress of the house!
So- here are this week's photos! Time seems to be moving pretty quickly and before we know it, we will be closing on our new home!! We are also looking into several moving companies and comparing pricing to try and figure out which direction to go with movers! Things are getting real, y'all!!
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| Our stone was delivered! |
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| The view from our front porch of the rest of the neighborhood! That side of the street is all taken up in this cul-de-sac |
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| View from our front porch |
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| One more front porch view. I had been waiting out front while hubby went to get the keys so we could get into the house. |
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| Siding view |
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| Siding view near the back of the house, looking at what will one day be a deck. |
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| Side view of the house with our siding |
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| Back view of the house with siding. It weirds me out a little bit the way the walk out basement door is done with the siding. |
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| Front view of our siding. Irish Thistle, Sandy Tan for the shake, and Dark Berry shutters |
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| Irish Thistle, Sandy Tan and Dark Berry Shutters. I love it! |
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| Another view of the walk out with the siding. Just weird it's not the whole wall. I kinda feel it should be all or nothing. Hopefully it doesn't bother me as much once the deck goes in. |
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| Siding view of the morning room |
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| Close up siding view at the walk out |
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| Drywall up, primed and looking great! Master Bath |
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| Master Bedroom |
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| another view of the Master Bedroom |
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| Loft view standing in the doorway of the master bedroom |
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| Looking into bedroom #2 |
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| Upstairs view standing in the doorway of bedroom #2 |
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| Bedroom #3 |
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| Laundry Room <3 |
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| Looking down the stairs. |
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| Standing in the foyer looking into the kitchen. I can't wait for the cabinets to be here! |
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| Looking into the morning room, standing in the family room/foyer area |
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| Looking into the foyer |
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| Front room (living room) |
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| Standing in the foyer, near the stairs |
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| Foyer view, looking into the dining room and living room |
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| Standing near the morning room looking into the kitchen. Left doorway is the small damn pantry, right doorway is the mudroom/garage entry |
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| Basement. Walk out doors <3 |
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| Basement. Standing near the walk out doors looking into the basement |
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| Another basement view. The drywall is pretty banged up near the bottom here. Gonna bring this up to make sure it's taken care of |
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| New hiding spot for our floor plans. In the unfinished "media room" in the basement.. Along with our balusters and railings, which have been here for a while. |
Can't wait to see what the next week brings!! I hope everyone has a great weekend, and a great Father's Day!!
