Our new project

Mike has decided that we need to finish our basement. I guess the rest of the house just isn't big enough. We have organized our storage area, we have gotten a cold air return for the furnace, exhaust fan for the bathroom, and the framing for the hall and bathroom are complete. We also opened up the area underneath the steps for additional storage. For some reason when the builders partially completed the basement they closed it up. Howie, Mike's cousin in law, is coming over this weekend to do the electrical work. We have purchased the tile for the bathroom and in front of the sliding glass door. I am guessing the next stages will be the drywall, doors, tiling and bathroom fixtures. The plumbing for the bathroom was put in when the house was built, however we are not adding a shower. Once these phases are complete and the walls are painted, we will have assess our budget for carpet, trim and furniture. Mike and I have decided that we wouldn't make good house flippers, there are too many decisions to make!!

moving day is here...again

We are SO excited to move...again! I have been packing all week. There is not a lot of room in our apartment to put a lot of boxes. We are pretty crowded in here right now.

On Monday we went to the house to do our final walk through. Just a few little things needed to be touched up but our house still looks GREAT! The builders went though everything with us, made sure everything worked, and explained the warranty to us. Today we are going to see all of the touch up work and sign off that we think our house is perfect. Tomorrow morning we sign our final loan papers and get the keys!

Mike is going to paint a little bit and I am going to do a little cleaning, it is pretty clean so it won't take me long. I am going to Scotch guard all the carpeting so it stays pretty. We are going to move what we can so we can spend the night in our new house tomorrow night. The bulk of things will be moved on Saturday. Then the fun unpacking will begin.

I will post some pictures when we get some furniture moved in and a few boxes unpacked.

2 more weeks!

We are getting SO excited to move! Our house is so close to being finished. As of last night, all the carpet and flooring is done, the door knobs are on all the doors, the blinds are hung and all the closet shelving is complete. The carpet isn't as "shaggy" as I thought it was going to be but it will be fine. There were a few dings and scrapes in the walls that were VERY noticeable that are getting patched up and repainted. The front door still needs to be painted and the house needs a good cleaning before we move in. I will probably post another picture slide show once we get to do our final walk through. I also promise to do a post about Libby sometime soon too.

another house update

On Monday when we got home from Florida we decided to check the progress on our house. So much has been done in a week! The counter tops and kitchen sink are in, all the walls are painted, the light fixtures and electrical are working. While we were there the floor guy arrived to put the linoleum in the laundry room, 1/2 bath, and Libby's bathroom. Yesterday when I drove by the floor people were working to put the tile in the kitchen, entry way and the master bath. I am guessing that carpeting is next. Only 3 weeks, 2 days until we move in!!

Our new house slideshow part 3

More pictures of the house! Things are coming along great. See the pictures to check the progress. All of the inside doors are hung, the laundry room sink is in, the bathroom cupboards are in just to mention a few things. We didn't think they were ever going to get the deck on since it has been raining here the last 5 days. As soon as it is finished and the mud clears up, I will try to get some pictures of the back of the house.

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We are very excited to get out of this apartment living. Our hot water heater has gone out 3 times in the last 3 weeks. Hopefully we won't have that problem since ours will be brand new.

house update

Things are progressing nicely on our house. All the dry wall is sanded, the concrete pad is down for the basement walkout, the posts are in for the deck and the sidewalk is poured. We have been looking at paint colors. Mike wants to paint one or two walls in about 4 or 5 rooms. I think that is pretty ambitious thinking right now, we will see how it actually turns out when the day comes. Yesterday we went to NE Furniture Mart. We bought a new high top table to put in our kitchen and a day bed set to put in one of the bedrooms. Someday Libby will sleep in but for now we are going to have 2 guest bedrooms. We are going to have PLENTY of room for lots of overnight visitors.

Our new house slideshow part 2

We found out last week that we get to move into our new house on October 17th!! This is a week earlier than we originally thought. Since we don't have to be out of our apartment until October 31st this will give us some time to paint some walls and take our time moving in. All of the walls will be painted a "khaki" color before we move in but we might decide we need a few new colors. Hopefully everything will be spic and span so I don't have to clean (except our apartment when we move out).

All of the dry wall is up now. We went in the afternoon so I could snap a few pictures (see slideshow link below). It looks SO much bigger with the walls up! Everytime we go in, it makes me more excited! I am not looking forward to the repacking and the unpacking again but it will all be worth it when I don't have to live in an apartment anymore

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Our new house slideshow

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Here is the link to the the slideshow of our new house for those of you that may not have gotten it by email. I am not thrilled with my gmail account. The contact feature is not very useful sometimes. One of these days I am going to switch to Cox but I need to figure out a user name first.