And More Paint!!!!

Wow, I am really behind on this blog. This weekend, my mom, MaryLou & I painted my main bathroom. I wanted to make this bathroom different from the rest of the house. We attempted to do a tree/branch effect. We had to paint the whole bathroom cream & then go back the next day to actually hold up bamboo & branches & spray the darker color over it. This is definitely still in the rough stage & needs a lot of touching up. This was much harder & messier than I ever thought possible. Hopefully it will look good once we are finished.

Interior Paint!

Last Saturday they painted the whole interior of our house. It looks more green in these photos, but in person it's more gray/brown. I think it will really pop once we have our cream trim, doors & wood wrapped windows.

We're So Excited....And We Just Can't Hide It!!!!!

Our house is moving along like crazy! It's almost hard to keep up on everything. They finished the siding last week. We added in the cedar accents above the garage & front window, & they added our cedar posts on the porch. This will all be stained a darker color. Hopefully, they will be able to paint the exterior before next spring. Keep praying for weather above 45 degrees & no rain or snow!!

House Update

The house is officially halfway finished!! The framing is complete, along with the plumbing & electrical. They should be insulating & drywalling this week. We are also pretty much done picking everything out for the house. All we have left is plumbing fixtures. Here are some photos of the house from the past 2 weeks.

Kitchen & Bathrooms

After our 4th & final meeting at United Flooring, we are finally finished picking everything out for our bathrooms, laundry room, & kitchen. It's so hard to tell how it will all come together, so cross your fingers it will look okay.

This is the tile we picked out for the main/guest bathroom. We will have these large tiles on the floor & smaller tiles in the shower. I forgot to take a photo of the back splash that we picked out to go with this...oops! Here is the floor & shower tile for our master bathroom. It is a gray/cement type of color. We are trying to go for a more contemporary look in the master bathroom.

This is our back splash that we will put with the tile in the master bathroom. There will be a row of this in our shower & also behind the sinks.

On to the kitchen. Here is the granite we picked out, along with the back splash tile & accents. Right underneath our hood & above our range, we will have a square accent that is framed in the silver with the larger tiles inside & the colored glass tiles spread out sporadically.
OK, I really hope our wall color doesn't really look like this, but our walls are a mix of taupe, green & gray. It looks kinda purple in this photo, but it's definitely not. Below is the carpet that will go in the living room, bedrooms & the stairs. This is also a poor misrepresentation of the true color. It looks pretty light, but it's really a darker shade of cream.
I didn't take any photos of the counter tops for the bathrooms & laundry room. The samples we had to choose from are smaller than a business card. I really have NO IDEA what they will look like. What a joke! All I know is that they are all dark & each is little different from one another.

Hood

Slight change of plans. We had to switch out our hood due to cabinet issues. Here is a better idea of what it will now look like, but in black. Disregard the photo of the hood below.

Since we decided on a gas range/oven, we thought it would look much better with a hood above it rather than our microwave. This photo looks very similar to the hood we picked out, but ours will be in antique black color to match our island.

It's becoming a real house

The framing is pretty much finished & they did the sheeting for the roof. It's starting to look like a "real house." Last Thursday the doors & windows were delivered & most of the windows have already been installed.