Day 71 - Mudroom Tile and Exterior

The front of our home is finally being started!! YAY!! Our builder told us it is going to take around a week to complete because it is custom siding (I really don't know what it is called), but it takes longer than vinyl to install. Also, our siding guy had his appendix removed a couple of weeks ago, so he is just getting back to work at our house. 

Our mudroom tile has been laid, but not grouted yet. It is a pretty greige color - don't mind the red in it now - that is from the cutting. It is Emser Bristol Concorde - I REALLY like it!!!

I think tile takes a long time to lay! They are also hopefully going to be starting our hardwood flooring soon!! YAY!!! 

Day 70 - Garage Doors and BAR!!!

Things are really moving at the house now!! YAY!! The garage doors were installed today and let me tell you - THAT was a pleasant surprise!!! We thought they were coming after Labor Day - so YAY!!!

Our bar was also installed today! My dad built it and did an AMAZING job! I am in love!!

The fridge will be raised to be level with the countertops after carpet goes in :)

The tile guys were also out there today! I am super excited to see that work start to happen! Everything is finally coming together!! YAY!!

Day 53-68

Lots and lots of house updates!! Sorry for the delay, but the insulation and sheetrock just wasn't that exciting ;)

Okay, so with the sheet rock in, the rooms are finally starting to look like....rooms!! YAY!!! This is the family room.

And kitchen/dining! It is so fun seeing it all come together!

Our actual quartz slabs came in and our fabricator text me these pictures. I am IN LOVE with this color!!! 

These are our paint options that I picked for our bathrooms - the top is the boys bathroom, and guest bath. The dark gray is going to be the color of the shiplap on the boys bathroom wall :)

This will be the color scheme in the master bath :)

We have a front porch AND COLUMNS!! Heck yeah!!! 

This week will be a busy one at the house! They are going to be spraying the ceilings and priming the walls. Then, tile and hardwood is going to start!! YAY for a fun, productive week!! 

Day 50-52

This past week is kind of condensed into one post because well, insulation is boring! Glad that part is over and we have drywall to look forward to this next week!! YAY!!

They also framed out the surround for our master bath, so that was fun to see!

Siding is mostly done in the back and on the sides - just waiting for the LP to come in and the front to get finished!!

We will hopefully be able to make it out there quite a bit this week to watch the progress - it is getting so exciting!!

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!! 

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!!!