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

We stopped by our house quick today. The painters were hard at work upstairs doing the second coat of paint. But we managed to scope out what they'd been up to downstairs. Our stair rail and steps are (mostly) in as well as some trim going up the stair case.

And our lights have been delivered. The lights and doorbell get installed tomorrow as well as any electrical work. Friday the carpet goes in.

The steps on Mum's side of the yard...

This is where the old ramp and stairs used to be. They put some fill in, levelled it, and put up a retaining wall. Now they're building wooden steps. Three down to the path by the solarium.

Then a ninety degree turn following the line of the deck and another few down to another landing.
From that landing there's another turn then steps down to the basement.

Tiles

The tilers continued working on our tile on Friday. The shower was almost done...and we got to pick the grout too for the bathroom.

Here's the kitchen with the back splash up.

But I just found out that they won't paint our house if it gets too cold. I'm so sad :( Hopefully it will be really mild for a long time so I can have my house FINISHED before next spring!!