Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Day 49 - Siding, Insulation, Window Treatments

What a busy day of home "stuff"! I had an early morning meeting with a Hunter Douglas rep to start looking at window treatments. I decided to go with Roman Shades for the majority of the windows and some more custom treatments for the patio doors. Don't ask me yet what those are going to look like - ha!

I had her hold up the different colors I am getting - it is crazy, but there are literally 100 different shades of "white" - who knew!?!


Then, I went and spent some time at Pier 1. We are needing chairs for our dining room and our counter stools. I decided to do Pierformance Cotton (it's a color) for the dining room in the chair below. It is SO soft and comfortable!! This color (charcoal) will be the color of our counter stools! Unfortunately, everything was on back order - so hopefully more come in soon!!


We went out to the house tonight and we were pleasantly surprised to see quite a bit of progress made!! YAY!! They are siding the sides and back of the house in Mastic Harbor Gray - I really like it because it is a "true" gray to me with not many undertones. That is REALLY hard to find!! The front will be completely different - LP siding - with custom colors. It is going to take a few weeks for it to come in, but it will look SO GOOD when it does!! YAY!!


The insulation is pretty much completed - hopefully the drywall gets up this week and then the mudding and taping can begin!! 






Monday, July 30, 2018

Day 44-48

Wow - sorry for the delay on this!! I haven't blogged in awhile because, to be honest, nothing exciting (to me!) has been happening!! The plumbing, HVAC, and electrical rough-ins are all done now....and we passed inspection on Monday!! YAY!! That means that they can begin the insulation and drywall now :) It should move a little more quickly now (for me!) because I can see the progress! HA!

The garage was poured, so it was fun to see that completed!

I also FINALLY purchased all of our lighting! Let me tell you - that was the thing I struggled with the most! It felt like such a huge commitment! The hardest part was the huge stairwell light and then a matching pendant for the foyer. I chose these two....I am hoping they look as amazing in person as they did on the website!


They are the Quorum Celeste light - and I think they will compliment our decor scheme well!

Day 34 - Decor

I did a LOT of home decor shopping today!! It has been really fun trying to decide what everything is going to look like, color schemes, etc!! I found this print at Pier 1 and decided that I am going to do gray, white, navy and gold accents in the basement! This print is kind of my decor scheme :))


It has a very small amount of navy in the print, but I am definitely going to play off of that for the basement!! SO EXCITED!


I found a navy throw pillow and then this gray and gold one for the couch downstairs. If you haven't checked out Society 6 for decor yet - DO IT!! I am obsessed!!!

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Day 33 - Bathroom Tile

I wasn't able to get out to the house the past day or two because of being SO BUSY getting stuff done, choices made, etc! I got all of our bathroom tile chosen, though, so it has been fun a fun couple of days!!

In the boys bathroom and the basement guest bath, we are going to do this light gray flooring (on the right). The shower floor will be the small mosaic on the bottom left and there will be a mosaic around the shower in the tile on the top left. I am LOVING this combo!!


Our master bath is what I am most excited about, though!! The flooring and shower walls will be the dark gray tile on the left. Then, the white hexagon marble tiles will be our flooring and our vertical mosaic going up to each of the shower heads. It is going to be SO PRETTY!! I am so excited!!


I also chose a gold calacatta beveled stone for our fireplace and a marble herringbone for our kitchen backsplash. Tile has been fun, but also a very daunting/expensive part of this process!! 

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Day 31/32

The flooring of the basement was poured on Monday!! That meant that they could continue with the framing of the basement - it was nice to finally be able to visualize how that space was going to be laid out! I have been told that everything goes through "stages" of feeling big and small during the house building process - we have definitely found that to be true!!

Here is the basement bedroom...


And exercise room....


Tristan and Jarret's tub was also placed in their bathroom - exciting stuff!!!


It appears that the HVAC and plumbing is done now. We are hoping to have our electrical walk-through soon so that process can get going! I am also waiting to make some lighting decisions because I need to make sure everything fits into the allowance.

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Day 28-30 - Countertops, Basement Progress

We had a super busy week in the house department, but I was out of town with the boys for quite a few days so I wasn't able to get a ton of pictures done!! Also, the progress is now consisting of HVAC, plumbing, etc., so the changes can be seen, but they aren't as exciting for me ;)

I went home to my parents to get our final countertop choices picked out! Our kitchen will be quartz - its called Calacatta Classique. It is a white base with deep gray veining throughout. I am absolutely OBSESSED with it!! It will be so bright and clean in our kitchen!!

This is the master bath quartz.

This is our powder room - and it is marble. I am super excited about it!! So many people had comments about using marble in our home, but I REALLY wanted it somewhere - so the powder room seemed like the natural choice! 


This will be the quartz used in the boy's bathroom and on the bar. It is hard to see in the picture, but it has some light gray veining throughout. I really like how subtle it is!


This might be one of my favorite pieces - it is for the guest bathroom. I am in LOVE with the gray and white!!!


This is the quartz for our laundry room. 


I ended up having to make some changes in the stone that I originally picked, because some of my design styles changed, but I am glad that my parents are great friends with the owners of the company -they were SO kind and accommodating to us!!

We are doing in-floor heat in the basement, so that was laid last week! I am hoping that means they are going to pour the concrete down there soon!! YAY!!!


Our fireplace was also installed! I am VERY excited about the design I did for our fireplace. It is going to be a white surround with a barn-beam mantle and I am (hoping) a gold marble tile. It is going to come together so beautifully!!


Our builder said that we will have our electrical walk-through in the next week or two - after that, it will be insulation and sheetrocking the walls. In about a month, our siding will hopefully be in and at the end of August, it will be cabinet install time!! AHH!! It is going quickly, but I wish I could snap my fingers and be moving in! It is so fun to see everything come together!