Move in Day:

This is from our move in day (Thursday). I got to the house before the movers and took the opportunity to take pictures of the finished house without piles of boxes in it. Here's the kitchen/dining room.

The kids in their playroom. They were SO hyper and excited to be moving.

A shot of the kitchen from a different angle. The appliances arrived on Friday (except for the washer/dryer which just arrived this evening).

The living room. To give you an idea of scale, the mantle on that fireplace is about chin level for me.

This is the den with the finished mantle. Looks nice, doesn't it!

I just liked the light on that tree...but here's the stair case. This light still doesn't work.

This picture is from last night...I had opportunity to use the guest room to house a guest so here it is set up. I'll have to find some art work to put on the wall but for now the bed is made and it's looking pretty cozy. Just needs curtains and something on the walls :)

Last I heard, tomorrow is the inspection

And I know that our builders are going to fail it on purpose. But I really did think the house would be further along than this. For my own sake, I'm going to list what I can see that still needs doing inside.

Here's the outside. There's quite a lot of clean up to be done out side, especially on the North side of the house. However, as it's winter now, and the clean up guy always comes after dark, I'm anticipating that we will have to be doing a lot of that clean up. As long as it's not me that has to climb on the roof to clean out the gutters ;)

Here's one shot of the laundry room. The piping and stuff for the hot water tank is all in there now. Again, I'm surprised that it's all done outside the wall but I'm all for hot water :)

The painting is done inside. And all the doors are hung. I didn't pay attention to how many light switches and electrical outlets still need plates, but it's a fair number. There's a good stack of them in the kitchen.

The kick plate has been installed in the kitchen though. I love ours here, I'm so glad to get one there!

Here's one side of the den.
And another view. Unfortunately, these pictures don't do it justice. You'll have to come for a visit. In this room we still need the mantle for the fireplace and some of the plates.

The caps have been placed on the banister.

And here's our room. The ceiling and walls have been painted (second coat) and the ceiling has had some accenting done.

This is our bathroom. We still need the glass walls around the shower, and cabinet doors (actually, we haven't got cabinet doors anywhere yet, so that's another thing we're waiting for).

The stairway outside our room:

So, I'm not back in Langley till Tuesday. We'll see what they manage to accomplish by then. I had hoped to have Andrew install curtains in our bedrooms on Wednesday so that when we move in on Thursday we don't have to worry about not having window coverings. We'll see if I get around to finding some and also the rods :P

I planted some shrubs

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.