All You Create

The weekend’s visit to the new homestead was fruitful. We now have windows! Correction: We now have most of the windows! Very exciting, to say the least, since “windows” was the first thing to cross off on the builder’s checklist.

Here’s the front of the house (the upper window — my hubby’s office window — has yet to be installed, but all other windows are in) and the roof has a weatherproof covering on it. The shingles should be installed shortly:

Here’s a view of the kitchen windows, all ready for fingerprints and such:

And here’s a rather dark photo of the installed fireplace. It’s a see-thru indoor/outdoor gas fireplace — should be lovely on a cool fall evening out on the deck:

We’re still in the process of choosing certain items, such as wood flooring, carpet, island pendant lighting and faucets. Perhaps we can knock some of those off the list this weekend.

SK

Our new house has become engulfed in Tyvek, the DuPont-brand weatherization wrap that keeps water from seeping through walls. And at this point, the construction is now authentically looking like a house. Yay! And I must add that it looks especially nice and cozy — or potentially so, at least — on this cold, wet day:

And now for a side view; the lone window is in what will be the Jack-n-Jill part of the girls’ bathroom (which, who are we kidding? is really the Jane-n-Jill bathroom):

We’ve also determined our handles for the bathrooms and kitchen. Here’s a sample of the master bathroom handles, in satin nickel:

Satin nickel for the bathrooms, oil-rubbed bronze for the kitchen

Next up for review: island pendant lights. That decision is coming a bit harder, folks.

SK

I can hardly believe it, but choosing stone for the front of our house has been one of the easiest, quickest things we’ve done so far. I explained the look we are going for to our builder, who suggested looking at Cottonwood tumbled stone. We took a look, we liked what we saw and ta-da! We have our stone chosen.

Uniform color and matching mortar give this Cottonwood tumbled stone the look we're after

We’re going with a matching white mortar so that everything blends together. Done.

SK

It’s going well! Fast! Fun!

For starters, here’s the front of the house, with Molly standing on the “driveway” and Abby waving from Molly’s room (on the left):

Here’s a shot of the master bedroom; in theory, we can place the bed between the two windows or under the transom, depending on our mood:

And a parting shot of me and the girly-girls in the space that will soon hold our kitchen table, with a great view of the water:

Like I’ve said, super-fun.

SK