95% complete - Time to move in

These pictures were taking about an hour before the house was full of furniture and boxes.  We are still working on getting organized and finishing up the final details, especially getting the plumber out there to get us usable sinks on the main floor.

Below: Standing in the front entry.  Living room to the left, den to the right.

 Below:  Taken from the kitchen hall looking at the family room with fireplace, built-ins and my new TV :)
 

Below:  Taken from the dining area.  Hall on the left is the mud room, opening to the center is the pantry, hallway to front door on the right.

Below:  Taken from the kitchen.  Showing basement door, hall to butler pantry and french doors out the the screen porch.  Cabinets turned out awesome. Glad they happened to be on display at Lowes in Plymouth, MN.  Oh you should try out the soft close draws.  Going to add a back-splash later.

Below:  Main floor bathroom with walk-in shower

Below:  Taken from front entry looking at the living room.  Opening to the right goes into the butler pantry hall.

Below:  From the living room looking at the foyer and den.  Den has double pocket doors.  I just finishing all the railings on Friday.

Below:  Butler pantry - walkway into the dining area and computer 'nook'

Below:  Master bedroom back window - overlooks Lowes Creek

Below:  Taken from the landing (yes the rail needs a finish piece)

Below: No, not the laundry landing - upper landing - Still need trim on the upper second story window.  I have been putting off doing.

Just a few weeks away from having to move in... yikes

Taking a little break away from the house.  Carson is teaching Bennett the finer art of 5 card draw.  Carson is going with the tough love approach... Bennett's needs to save up before he can play again.

Our little tub

 The Granite is being fabricated right now for the Kitchen.

Note the new Dark doors... we're liking it!

Wood, rock and more wood

The built-ins are, well built.  Kim and I also painfully put in the ledger stone.  That job just about did me in!  The cabinets are going to be painted canvas like the kitchen cabinets.

I have the floors installed in the kitchen and dining area.  I still have another 200 or so sq feet to install in the hall and butler pantry.  Anyone need a engineered floor stapler.. I have one to borrow now.

I roughed in the kitchen cabinets... man do they look nice.  And the draws shut as smooth as sh!t out of a gooses @ss.  The uppers will go in once we have the counter tops install since we have an appliance garage that needs to sit on top of the counters.

Tile is almost done, and other things

As of Monday the first floor tile work is complete.  The floor tile turned out great, considering I had to cut all but 3 tiles... 4+ hours for a 6x6 floor!.  I am all tiled out!

Built-ins are going in. The only part left is to finish the mantel.  I am installing the rock face this week. Kim will paint it later.  We are painting it Canvas (off-white) to match the kitchen cabinets.

The dark stain is applied, just some poly left.  (Kim's fun job).  The dark is better then I expected. The first floor is completely painted.

Next up for this week/weekend......

- Rock the fireplace
- Install the wood floors on the main floor (600 sq f)
- Buy a 50' TV for our new built-ins
- If I am really on top of it, start installing the Kitchen Cabinets so we can order the counter tops.

Disco House - Lots of tile going in

Our disco house all 'lit up' (good buckcherry song)

 Just finished up the master bath tile last night - the only tile work left are the two walk in showers and the main floor bath... not so excited about the showers!

Tile and cabinets are installed in the boys bathroom.  One upper cabinet is left to install after the counter tops are in.  There will be two sinks and a full mirror above the counter with two wall sconces

My favorite feature is the mudroom with a 'drop zone' for all our stuff like mail, wallets (empty after this house) phones etc...   Nothing messy should make it into the kitchen.   Tile floor is also done.  The boys bath and the mudroom are the only two rooms with Java cabinets, the rest will be canvas/alpine white.

One of the two walk in showers.  They are both prep and ready for tile.  Half the tile is in the garage calling my name!  The one pictured below will also get a frame-less door, the master will just have a walk in. 

Next up for the week of October 3rd - Finish up ALL tile by the end of the weekend... My hands will be soooo glad!

Lee

On to the inside

Drywaller finished up last Friday.  Going to start hitting it hard this week.  Big plans - main paint, tile and some cabinets.

Some pictures of the new paint... sorry no new outside pictures.  We do have the base course of the driveway in and all the exterior lights are in.  Kim also painted the front door.   Look'n good.  But it seems like Oct 31st is going to come up really fast.   40+ of hour of PTO schedule this month!

Skid Steer Time

Kim and I rented a skid steer last weekend and scraped 1-2 feet off the front yard.  We also started some landscaping, but quickly realized how little 3 ton of rock is.

"Wait...   I'm not ready for you yet!!!"

I spoke with the insulator the other day and told him I should be ready mid week for insulation, he replied with just give him three days notice.. Alright then.  To my surprise they showed up a few days later and started there work.  No electric inspection and plumbing still left.  I immediately told him to stop.  Good thing I stopped by during lunch.   I expect them to start up again today Friday 19th.

This weekend I'll frame the basement and have the house 100% ready for insulation on all three levels.

Drywallers are scheduled for the first week of September.  Then the gratifying work starts.

... and we may even have a septic system in next week along with a pressure tank for the well.

Oh and electric inspection pass without any conditions, or comments (and only one shock to the back of the leg).  So all that went great with the exception of the $700 worth of newly required AFCI breakers.  Normal breakers $5.88, required breakers as of January 2010 in Wisconsin.. $39.99.  My electric budget went out the door $2000 bucks ago.  Buy hey we have spot lights around the house for art work... aren't we fancy.

Other then the above the budget is looking pretty good.