Countertops!

Here are the photos of our countertops! They are all installed now and look great! We are so happy with how good they turned out. Stuart did such an amazing job at measuring and installing them! Now we will stain them with an acid stain and then varnish them with a food-safe clear coat.

More counter top photos.

Here is our rail that was put in this week also. It looks kind of strange, because we were in the process of staining it.

The bottom caps will be against the wood on the spindels. Stuart is showing us how fun it is to do sweat-equity in your home! :)

Here are our concrete countertops. They are in their molds in these pictures. The circles in the middle are the cut-outs for the sinks. We are hoping to do an acid stain on them that is supposed to look pretty neat. Then we will finish them with a clear coat to protect and seal them. Hopefully they will turn out okay!

Cabinets

Well, here are our cabinets installed. Also our lights were put up this week. The cabinets were not the color I wanted, but now they are growing on me. Our builder actually brought out a sample of the wood I was supposed to have and I don't like it with our wood floors (which you can't see in the picture). Our builder is giving us a great deal on the cabinets and throwing a bunch of stuff in for free because of his mistake. So, it all worked out in the end!

Here is our pride and joy! The shower in the master bathroom. It is grouted now, but I forgot to take pictures. This turned out so good, but it sure was a lot of work. The shelf had to be moved after we started tiling due to it being too far up. And the bench was tough to design. But, it all worked out good in the end and we love it!

Here is the paint job. We love the colors and they make the house look so warm and comfortable. I had no idea paint could do so much!

Here is my ugly red wall. It is no longer red. It is tan now and will soon have a dark brown stain on it. This is all that I painted of the red, and realized that I hated it. It was supposed to be maroon. It was ugly.

This is the front (and back) of our house. They put up more of the siding and they finally put our roof on! Thank goodness!!! It's looking so nice and we are very happy with the colors. It's hard to see the back of the house, because we have a huge hill of dirt they need to move back around the house before we move in. But, it gives you an idea.

These are our beautiful wood floors! They look so wonderful! They are really dirty in these photos, but they look much better when they aren't dusty. Stuart had a great idea to put the border pieces in, and it gives it a very finished look.

We are very happy with them!

Here are the photos of our hall bathroom. This was more of that great 69 cent tile!

Siding!

They started siding our house this week... the back

is 1/2 way done, and the one side is complete! In the front, there will be brick up to the bright orange lines. Our shingles also got delivered... now if they would only put them on the house!

Drywall!

Yes, what you're seeing is correct... it's DRYWALL!!! We have rooms with walls and everything! We are very excited! They did all of the drywalling in less than a week! We should be painting the first weekend in March. Then we'll be in in no time! (cross your fingers)

Here is what our house looks like from the outside now. Not much different, but this week they should

be putting on the brick and siding.

Insulation!

Here it is... our insulation! We decided to go with the blown in, and we are surprised at how well they pack that stuff in! Then on the basement they blew the insulation onto the cement. We're not sure how to drywall over it, but it sure looks nice!

(First two photos are of upstairs, bottom two of downstairs.)

A HOUSE?!?!

What's this? Our house actually looks like a house - not just a hole in the ground!!!! They framed our house completely in 3 days. Now they will start work on roofing and putting in our windows and doors! Then electrical and plumbing... before we know it we'll be tiling! Needless to say we are very excited!!