Pictures of home that hubby took last night

 Inside of the den looking out at the entryway and stairwell where the rot iron baulister handrail will be. 

In the middle if the great room looking towards the wall where the TV will be mounted and coat closet.

Great room looking into the kitchen

Our brick from the front door. I don't know if it is the picture, but I see a lot of red tones. It's supposed to be shades of brown- no red. 

Week 11

10/14/13 Day 71 

Stopped by the house and saw all of the guys working hard to finish out all of the drywall. One of the guys informed me that's. Different crew would be by to do the mudding on the drywall.  It must have been close to 10:30am and they were all in the garage finishing up. 

Day 72

We made an agreement that we would not visit the house until Thursday, since we assumed that it wouldn't change much between now and then. Well 8 hours into my 12 hour workday I had a change of heart. I called up hubby and asked if he could stop by and see if anything has changed on his way home. Being the awesome man that he is- he agreed! An hour later I received an email titled" Time for the Brick". Despite the title, nothing could have prepared me for this:

He didn't go in since the guys were still working, but if you look close enough you can see that the mudding in the garage has been done.

For the past 2 weeks we've received numerous e-mails from our loan officer with different interest rates. After much thought, we decided to lock in our interest rate. Unfortunately it is not as great as rates were when we first started this process, but hey what can you do?

Day 73

Initially, we made an agreement to not go back to visit the house, but yeah I broke down and did it after attempting to get an oil change. It was so rainy and muddy, but I was determined once again to get an up close view of our brick as well as see the inside.  I really love how the brick is coming together, but feel like it's a shade darker then what we initially thought it would be. 

I have no clue what the trailer is there for, because they definitely were not at our house.

My in the car photos weren't cutting it, so I got out to get a better view of the brick. 

After seeing the brick, I woke up with a little anxiety and felt the need to start scheduling estimates for painters, measurements for blinds, and quotes for movers. We went out to Home Depot and scheduled for them to come out and measure the morning of October 30th.We have 2 estimates scheduled- one this Saturday and the other October 24th. I haven't gotten an estimate for any movers just yet, but trust and believe that is on my to do list for before I go back to work on Friday. 

 I am going to try to put together a post of our house buys so far, if not this week maybe next week.

Until next time,

-The Alexander's

Drywall pictures

We did go to the house yesterday morning as promised. The entire upstairs and half of the downstairs has drywall. We noticed they covered some of our windows and the back door, but I assume they will be making those cuts when they come in today. 

Standing in the master bedroom looking at the master bathroom and hallway

Standing outside the master bedroom looking towards bedroom 3

Looking down to the landing from upstairs. You can kind of see some light peeking through the drywall at the bottom of the stairs; that is a window that has been covered.

Standing in the Great Room looking towards entry hall and coat closet

We have walls

We went by the house not to long ago and noticed that there was a man walking on stilts and numerous other people inside. Come to find out they were installing our drywall. Hubby wanted to ensure that they added the extra deadwood in the master so we could mount or TV, but that space was already covered. We of course didn't want to slow them down or distract them so we left right back out and didn't get any pictures. I guess we will just have to go back tomorrow morning. Oh yeah today marks Day 69.

There was no progress yesterday (Day 68), and on Thursday (Day 67) all plumbing corrections to bath 2 were made.

I will do my best to update with pictures tomorrow after our visit. 

Until next time,

-The Alexander's

Week 10

This has been one of our slower weeks, where not much has happened, but we know this is in preparation for our upcoming drywall.

Day 64 (10.07.10)- We had our pre-drywall meeting with our P, Travis, where we went over all of our specs and confirmed that everything was in the right place. We had no major issues, with the exception of our plumbing in Bath 2 still not being changed. He re-assured us that it would be fixed before the end of this week, being that drywall is supposed to start on Friday. Our PM realized that we were missing an outlet needed for all of our guardian goodies that are in a box in the master closet so he is going to have the electrician back out to add that along with an outlet for TV wall mount in our bedroom. We came armed with plenty of Sharpie's so that when it was over we could add our prayers/blessings onto the studs of our home. Shout out to Stacey over at Savoy-r-ing The Moment for the great idea. Later that evening all of the insulation had been added along with the rounded corners for the entryway to the den.

Day 65-  Nothing happened

Day 66- Deadwood was added- so that the TV can safely be mounted to the wall.City and private inspector came out for insulation inspection, and it passed. Hopefully they will start drywall tomorrow, and the masonry's will be beginning our brick early next week.

  

 

Right next to the front door

Entryway wall

   

The low wall bar in the kitchen 

Psalm 23. A family favorite added to the dinning room

We added an "In Memory " stud 

Rounded corners for our den/office

It already feels a little toasty with all this insulation

Living Room wall mount and conduit

Master bedroom mount and conduit. PM is going to have someone add more supports to the bottom since the gaps are currently to large.

The best of it all is that our closing date has been set for November 25th!!!! Our PM states that next week they may change this to a week earlier, because he thinks our home will be complete by this time next month. I don't want to get emotionally attached to the thought of closing early until we know for sure, but the 25th sounds great.

Until next time,
- The Alexander's