House Update: November 22nd Edition

This is the week where the house goes from 0 to 60!

They've finished all the siding on the house now. The front still needs to be painted, but the details are almost all done. See, they've even got most of the stonework done on the front.

It's lookin' nice, eh?

The guy was almost done cutting the pieces for this cap this evening. I love that they did it in stone.

Yesterday at 4ish the cabinet guys arrived. They worked almost 12 hours straight (two of them) and got the cabinet boxes all installed (except the powder room which they do after the tile floor is in.) This is the laundry room where the sink will go.

And across from the sink above my washer/dryer.

Here's a close up of the counter top that is in the kitchen and [this is] the laundry room. In this room we decided to do the brown because we didn't have a sample of the flooring and wanted to pick something fairly neutral. In the kitchen we went with brown because we weren't sure what accent colours we'd use with all the brown. By going with brown counter tops we can do any colour for accents.

Here's a view of the kitchen. My head doesn't quite come up to the halfway mark on those upper cabinets. I'm going to be investing in a step stool for the kitchen!! The brown box standing all by itself here in the left corner is the powder room cabinetry.


Here's the living room with the fireplace finished.

A close up of the powder room cabinet. They finished laying the tile in there today. It has to dry and get grouted before they put this in.


Here's the 12X12 tile we put in here though:

And a close up of the counter tops we put in the three bathrooms. I love it SO much and almost wish we'd just put it in the kitchen. The blue is only super noticeable against the blue paint.

This is our bathroom. They've started the tile floor here (20X20 instead of 12 X 12).


And this is the main bathroom.


We got these awesome white tiles (REALLY wanted white in here...I'm so glad the tile guy recommended these tiles!)

More of the same :)

Well, at this stage it feels like more of the same...the siding is still going on the house, and the painters are working away. However, it's getting awfully close to when things will need to be done. Two weeks from today Corey wants our dishwasher and hood fan delivered so they can be hooked up. That must mean that the house will be ready for them to be hooked up (right?)

Anyhoo...here's the south side of the house. Top floor windows are to David's room, window below is the laundry room and below that is the basement!

And the front of the house...the siding parts (except around David's bedroom) are hardi plank. They'll paint that in whatever colour it was that Andrew picked for the hardi plank. We ended up picking three shades of brown...one is a close match to the vinyl siding; one is a medium brown and one is a very dark brown. I can't remember what goes where so it will be a nice surpirse for all of us ;) I do know we didn't want white trim and our door is going to be red.

Here's the front entrance way. Looks like we'll have a wee little porchy thing in front of the door.

Inside, they've been busy spraying our doors and the trim. There was a painter there today working on a final coat on the trim.

This is the inside of our garage. Andrew's really excited about the quality of our garage door. He says it's much nicer (thicker) than our current garage door. Which is good, especially if I decide to try and drive dad's truck into the garage without opening it first (again).


The den, from the outside. Nice windows, eh?

And the back of the house.


This afternoon we stopped at the Brick and looked at appliances. The sales guy was very helpful, and explained quite well the differences in appliances. We've got a list of the ones that looked the best (based on quality of handles, room in dishwashers etc.) but now I want to check out reviews before we actually order.

We dropped off the three mirrors we have already and we tried to pick up the tile today too, but they were closed. The tile has to be there by a week from today so I guess that's something we'll be doing on the weekend coming. And now I'm off to do some comparison shopping online. Toodles ;)

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.