Feb 21 2006
Today our mailbox was installed, along with the molding around the front door. They still have to paint the front door maroon to match the shutters, and the front door molding and garage door tan (same as the gutters).
Nothing new on the interior today.
Feb 19 2006
We finalized (we think) the paint colors for our house. We plan on painting before we move anything in…that way it will be done, and we wont’ have to worry about painting down the road when all of our stuff’s in there…bleh, what a hassle. It’ll be hard work, probably will take at least a week, but it’ll be worth it in the end.
We chose Behr paints. You can go to www.behr.com and use their Color Smart system to look up our paint colors. They obviously don’t look exactly the same online as in real life, but it will give you an idea anyhow.
Click on the explore color link, then click to select color by name/number. Type in the colors below:
Kitchen and breakfast area: Spicy Cayenne
Family room and upstairs hallway: Desert Powder
Front room: Brown Bread
Office: Green Tea
Guest bath and laundry room: Soft Denim
Master bedroom: dunno yet 🙂
Master bathroom: Sage Tint
We aren’t painting the guest bedroom or our extra bedroom…gotta save something for later! We have enough to paint as it is anyhow.
-ec
Feb 16 2006
Amazing…the house looks pretty much finished. Other than carpet (which they don’t install until right before the walk-thru), vent covers, painting the front and garage doors, and massive cleanup cleanup cleanup, I can’t find anythign that’s left to do! Yay!
I hadn’t gone to the house since Sunday (I know, I’m a slacker). I figured that we’re really near the end and there wouldn’t be much change. Today I saw:
-windowsills were all installed and painted
-more touch-ups were done
-the final coat of paint was done
-towel bars and toilet paper holders were installed in the bathrooms
-the bathroom mirrors were installed
-all closet and pantry shelving was installed
They still have two repairs to do that we will not move in unless completed. The bathroom wall that Rick said he would get ripped out and replaced got caulked instead, and one of the baseboards in the garage is about 1.5 inches above the ground. Don’t know how they didn’t notice that…duh
Overall, the house looks great and we’re getting really really excited. We got an awesome loan rate locked in, finalizing paint colors, budgeting for things we need (fridge, washer/dryer), getting homeowner’s insurance squared away, and getting antsy to move in!
I took some videos of the house today, along with a few pictures. I barely got the pictures before the battery died. I’ll get some more tomorrow or Saturday. Hopefully we’ll get the videos up by tomorrow night. Check back to see those.
Feb 12 2006
What a cool day at the house! Paul and I went to Lowe’s today and chose hardware for the kitchen and bathrooms. We found one we loved instantly, went out to the house and it looks great! Of course we have to wait until the house is “officially” ours to install them, but we took some pictures of Paul holding them up to the cabinets so we could picture it…
All of the electrical outlets and light switches were working. We got to turn on all of our lights and figure out which switch turns what on; always interesting the first time 🙂
We really like all of the lighting in the house except the two ceiling lights in the kitchen. We’ll have to replace them eventually, they are very cheap looking. All the rest are brushed silver and look great!
Click here to see pictures from today
We’re really starting to get excited, less than a month to go (we think)!
Feb 10 2006
Had a good meeting with Rick yesterday. They already starting fixing a lot of the problems. He said he would definitly fix the creaky floors and the bathroom wall. We’ll have to wait and see if their “tweeking” of the baseboards will be good enough for us. Overall, Paul and I were satisfied that we talked with him.
Rick said that we have about a month left before the house is finished. He said the only things that are really left are final electrical/plumbing servicing, basement windows, 2nd coat of paint (once everything’s finsihed), carpet and some odd and end inspections. He said the first week or two of March it’ll be done. Yipes! That’s about 4-5 weeks from now!
Paul and I have to get moving on picking paint colors and washer/dryer and fridge!
They did a lot of work yesterday, they are testing toilets, installed light fixtures on ceilings and in bathrooms, did the kitchen faucet and disposal, finished most outlets and switches, installed cable and phone jacks, touched up drywall nicks and bumps, etc.
Feb 08 2006
Today the toilets and faucets were installed in the three bathrooms. Our water heater was also installed in the basement. The kitchen faucet isn’t installed yet, but the disposal is under the sink in the box.
All of our light fixtures are sitting in boxes in the living room, so they should be up soon too.
Feb 06 2006
Still moving along on the house…they did the first coat of paint on all the interior walls today. The interior doors and interior door moldings are painted white. The baseboards aren’t painted yet. I assume they still have to fill the nail holes, then paint them (hopefully white). They also took the cardboard covering off of our front door. It’s very nice, we love it! We’ve been waiting a long time for the big reveal 🙂
(Click here for pictures from today)
Now for the frustrating part of building a home (yes, yes, I know, I told you so, I told you so…). Paul, my mom and I did a very thorough walk-through on Saturday and noticed quite a large list of things that need to be fixed on the house already. Everything from warped baseboards, to deep scuffs in the walls, to nicks in the ceilings, and even walls that are extremely bowed that need replacing or major work. *sighs*
I left the building supervisor a message today trying to set up a meeting with him to go over my list, but I haven’t heard back…wonder if I ever will. They obviously didn’t plan on fixing any of the drywall problems since they went ahead and started painting. grrr.
We figure, hey…they can either stop and fix it now, or wait until the house is finished, shiny and clean and have to rip out and redo stuff then. Up to them. We don’t care, we’re in no big rush.
So there’s my spillage for today. Any suggestions on how to approach the building inspector/company about the list? Kurt/Greg?
Our expected finish date is late March. We’ll know a specific date by the end of February. Or…could be longer if they drag their feet on fixing things.
Feb 03 2006
Today they put in the kitchen cabinets, stove, microwave, dishwasher, sinks, bathroom vanities and sinks, all interior doors and baseboards. Whew!
The kitchen is really exciting, it’s starting to actually look like a home!
Feb 03 2006
Lots of work done on the house yesterday! The vinyl flooring in the kitchen, laundry room, all bathrooms, and front entryway was installed. All the vinyl floors have cardboard over them to protect them. I lifted up the cardboard in the kitchen to get a picture of it and opened the garage entry door to try to use it to hold up the cardboard to get a better picture…then I looked in the garage. Yikes.
All of our kitchen stuff was in there! The interior doors, kitchen cabinets, kitchen countertops, kitchen sink, appliances, and baseboards were all in the garage! I snapped a ton of pictures, click here to check them out.
There’s a sales meeting on Monday for the sales consultants at Maplestreet Homes. LJ, the sales counselor said that he’d get a really good idea about when the house would be completed at that meeting. We’re hoping it won’t get done too early, so we still have time to save money.
Feb 01 2006
Our driveway and sidewalks were poured today! Paul went out and took pictures.
