I forgot to post a picture of the railing.

Davey and Daddy stopped at the house tonight to check out the new doors. Davey was pretty excited to see his bedroom - it's the first time he's been to the house since the carpet was put down. Look at the expression on his face!


As well as the doors being in, most of the plumbing fixtures have been added too.


Woo hoo! We have toilets!


And mum, here's a picture of your Christmas lights!

Nine Days Till We Move In....

Nine days away from moving in and the house is humming along. Outside, Matt finished the front post.

The hot water 'thingie' is in the laundry room closet.

And holes have been cut ready for our sinks to go in. This is my kitchen window. Won't I have a lovely view when I'm washing dishes?

The carpet went in. These are the stairs down to the basement.

And the stairs to upstairs. (I think it's funny how the carpet looks like it's exactly the same shade as our walls. We did some crazy colour matching!)

This is the light in the spare room.
And the carpet in our bedroom. When we had to change carpet colour we asked to have our master bedroom repainted. I guess they forgot because this is the gray. I didn't go upstairs today, but Andrew says that the paint and carpets "aren't too bad, but they're not as nice as in the hallway." So I guess I'll live in the room for a week or two before I decide if I'm repainting it myself.

Here's our bathroom.

And Ellie's room. I have big plans for her room; I just haven't decided what the main colour of the walls should be. I guess we'll be living with her room for a while and I might repaint while Andrew is Texas this spring.

Oh, and here is the light for the stairwell between the main floor and the top floor. I think I like it...

More on Mum's Steps

Today Matt spent his last day on the building site. He finished off the post at the front of our house and built some railings for mum's stairs.

I think that we'll plant something green along the top of the stairs rather than putting a fence up at the top. Mum sent me a website on hedges so I'm just trying to decide what would look nicest.

My mum has the coolest outdoor lights. They're kind of brown with yellow circle glass in them and very interesting looking. I really wanted to find lights like hers for our house. After several missteps (every light we liked for outdoors was either discontinued or they only had a single light left...so why even have it on the display floor?) we settled on these ones. I like them even more than in the lighting store!

Also, our downspouts got installed.

Here's the other outside light. Pretty, isn't it?!

And the light in the front entry. Again, I had something different in mind, but because everything within our price range was excruciatingly boring, I settled on this. There are a few things about the house I don't like (the mouldings around the doors upstairs for instance) so in the 20 or so years I'm sure I'll replace those things. It's hard for a perfectionist like me to take things slowly though!

The den. I HATE these lights. I had no idea we could request a ceiling light instead of these awful wall sconces. Maybe they'll grow on me, but for now my brilliant plan is to remove them, put a plate over and then hang pictures there. *sigh* The lights themselves are quite pretty though, aren't they?

Our bedroom. The wall colour is actually gray. I need to find some white bedding and then I'll accent with texture I think. Can't wait.

The carpets were supposed to be installed on Friday but they weren't at the warehouse. So hopefully tomorrow?! Then we're just waiting on switchplates, toilets, sinks, fixtures...the lipstick basically. Only ELEVEN more days!!

Lights Added