I'm taking my camera with me today and hoping I can sneak inside the house while it's still light today.

As of yesterday:

• we have a gorgeous dark green back lawn,
• we have gorgeous dark brown gutters and they had begun the 'soffits',
  
• the side windows are framed and Matt was working on the front of the house,
• the baseboards are up everywhere upstairs and cut for downstairs.

There's probably more that's been done, but I didn't get to go in to look.

Friday has turned out to be a crazy day again so I'm heading to Langley with Andrew in the hopes that I can meet with the lighting guy today. This is where Corey gets the lights from. I think they save a lot of money on the budget by using pot lights. I see that's what we have through the front of the outside of the house as well as in our living room, kitchen, and hallways. Since I always have such a hard time choosing lights I like, I'm all for pot lights. Hide them in the ceiling! Pure genius :)

We have a new move in date!

Apparently those amazing drywallers were SO fast that our move in date has been bumped up by seven days!! So new move in date is December 13th. Yipeeeeeee!

In other news:

• The tiler starts on the 18th.
• Our microwave/hoodfan and dishwasher need to be onsite to get installed on November 25th.
• The rest of our appliances should be scheduled for delivery for the 10th of December!

Mum says there was lots of banging going on in the house today and she thinks they were laying the turf in the back yard. I'm anxious to get to the house and see what all has been done, but at this stage we start to be in the way if we're over there all the time.

Exciting nonetheless!

Now the fun stuff starts to get exciting...

Now that all that important foundational stuff has been done on our house, it's time for some of the fun stuff to start!! Last week they poured the concrete for the remaining stairs/pathways and the driveway.

Here it is...pebbly like Kat's.

And it goes right up to the front door. I was expecting a small front porch - just a bit wider than the doorway and up to the post. So I'll be interested to see what they do here. I hope it's not just a step.

The inside of the garage is primed.


And this is the view from the kitchen to the living room. In this light, all the wall colours look the same. you get a better idea from looking the other direction,

Though now the kitchen looks very dark. The contrast isn't quite that strong. It's hard to tell in a room that doesn't have lights and on a rainy day!!



Maybe this is better?

The den is the same dark brown.

And our bathroom is this lovely blue.

Tink's bedroom:


On Wednesday they'll start with the vinyl siding. The carpenter already started working on the windows and he'll continue with some of the finishing details. Apart from that I don't know what comes next. We've been trying to reach the cabinet guy for ages without much success. I'd like to see drawings of what he's doing since it's not at all like what he did in Kathi or any of Corey's houses.

Won't be in Langley again till Friday so by then I'm sure there will be lots more to take pictures of again!!

On Saturday I took a quick stroll through my house. Here's the stairway looking all mudded.


And the kitchen. Can't wait to see this one is all done :)

They've prepared the stairs to pour the rest of the cement and the driveway. Today there was someone there spraying the ceilings. Andrew asked for the kitchen to be flat, the rest of the house will be that speckley stuff. The painters come on Friday to start. I'm SO excited!

And that's a picture of Kathi and Cody's house...you know, behind the web.

The walk through was awesome. Corey seems to get our style; it's amazing. We told him that we liked the mouldings used in his house, but that they were a little to fancy for us. He looked at the pictures of our kitchen and bathroom and came prepared with awesome mouldings. He'd even brought the catalog for us to look at, but it wasn't necessary.

We also talked about the exterior of our house and we've got it narrowed down to three shades plus the door and we've picked the stonework for inside and out.

We've also found our mirrors (yay Home Depot!) and interior colours. I think pretty much all we have left to pick is the lighting. And that makes me kind of sad.

In fact, I'm ready to start work on our next house...

Second Walk Through

Tomorrow Corey (our builder) is doing our second walk through. We need to be prepared to talk about exterior colours, exterior rockwork, tiles, interior colours, mouldings...

So today Andrew and I went to Tiles for Less and had a look at the tile we've chosen so far. As luck would have it, all the tile we liked was on sale. But that also meant that they were starting to run out of some of the tile we liked. So today we bought all the tile for our master ensuite and powder room. We picked up samples for the main bathroom and den fireplace. Now all we left to buy is the tile backsplash for our kitchen. I'm kind of wondering about that. I personally have never lived (as an adult) in a house with tile backsplash. I guess I'm a bit worried that I'll get sick of it. Any opinions? I was thinking of just doing off-white subway tile. Something very neutral.

yeah. I'm all about the neutrals.

I didn't walk through the house today, but the garage looked like it was almost done mudding.

This is getting exciting!

Well, as I mentioned earlier this week, there were two teams of drywallers working on our house Thursday/Friday. So by the time we went to visit on Saturday morning, the whole house was done. Here's the garage:

This is our living room, viewed from the dining room (though really it's all one big great room but that's what I'm calling it). I love how they've done the arches.

And from the living room through to the kitchen:

This is awesome: There's a closet off the living room. Which is awesome enough. But because the closet is under the stairs, they also built a little room which is just big enough for the kids to hide in. They could fit some books or toys and blankets - even a bean bag chair or two - and hide out in there. AND it has a little window so they can watch the raccoons or the ducks playing outside during our long rainy winters.

The view from our living room down to the front door.

This is the den.
The guest bedroom. It's the second nicest bedroom in the house.

A view to the other direction:
This will probably be Elisabeth's room:

And this one is Davey's.

And this one is ours.

The bathroom:
And a couple pictures of the basement. Lookin' good!