I think we're heading out to the house tomorrow. So hopefully we'll be able to post new pictures tomorrow evening. Apparently there were men working on the siding today, but I'm not sure what else has been done.

We will probably pick up the tile for the bathrooms tomorrow and try to price out some appliances while we're in town.

I've never been a big fan of those huge mirrors that usually get installed in bathrooms. And when I found out how hard they are to uninstall I knew that I didn't want them in this house. I found these gorgeous mirrors at Restoration Hardware. They're tiltable so perfect for growing kids and trying to find stray chin hairs ;) But they're $400 at Restoration Hardware.

So I found some similar ones for $90 at Home Depot and was all set to pick them up this weekend. On a whim last night I had a quick look at Canadian Tire (after all, they have all the Debbie Travis stuff now) and found these for $58. Yippee...I'm off to get them this afternoon!

Mum's kitchen

Here are some pictures of mum's kitchen. The kitchen installers haven't been around since Wednesday. This is a picture of where they had to rip wholes in the newly patched walls to move the electrical...apparently Bert measured correctly and the cabinetry was made correctly...it's the girls who do the data entry who entered the measurements wrong. So a few things didn't fit. Like the pantry. And where the electrical stuff was supposed to go (uhm, have they not heard of checking their plans to make sure everything is accurate before actually making the cabinetry? Just saying...)

This is the wall where the old pantry was and where the island thing used to be. It will be nice and bright when it's finished.

And the wall where the stove and fridge go.
Long view of the kitchen:

For whatever reason, Blogger has been posting my pictures backwards lately. Tonight I am too tired to reorder them. So here they are...

The back of our house with siding on it! This is the basement under the dining room/kitchen.

And this is the side of the house near mum's...leading up to the laundry room and garage entry. These pictures were taken yesterday. When we were there today it was too dark for pictures, but there is already a lot more siding on the house. I haven't walked around it, but if they're doing from the bottom up all four sides at once, they must be almost finished. 2/3s maybe?

This is the front of the house along the den and front door.

And along the garage.
And here you can see the front of the house where they've put the hardi planking and the Board and Batten. Depending how tomorrow goes, we might go out to Langley and pick up our tile to deliver. If so, I'll get more pictures then.


Good night!

Look! We have grass :)

Here's the front of our house. See...they're getting ready for Board and Batten and siding!

Here's another view of the back yard. Can't wait to play out there.

And they're putting on the doo hickeys that the siding hooks on to. Or whatever.

The subfloor is on in the powder room.

The doors are trimmed...see?

This is the den. Above were the french doors into this room. I'm likin' the brown.

The hallway to the front door.

This is the kitchen. See the crown mouldings?

The dining room.
And the living room.




This is our bedroom. For some reason, this colour doesn't seem quite right. Andrew thinks it is right, but that this picture just looks off. I kind of like it either way.

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!