the framers were back!

Today the rain worked in our favor-- the framers came off another (outside) job to do our interior work today. They fixed the master bath window which was too low, they moved the wall in the kitchen so we could fit the dishwasher to the right of the sink and have a normal corner cabinet, the put in the real-deal stairs(!!!!) and the framed out the laundry/powder room, closet and mudroom/hallway off the garage. Very exciting to see....

Sounds like another couple of weeks before sheet rocking-- they have to have heat on in the house before they can do sheet rock and there's a few inspections before then as well. A. (our builder) did say that the outside of our house should start looking a little less like major construction zone as the majority of the work moves inside. He said that we're still on schedule which is also a great thing to hear.

Farmhouse table is ours!!!

Here's M, measuring to make sure we could fit a 84" x 48" table... and here is our beautiful farmhouse table (only 36" across)-- safe and sound on a good friend's sun porch until we can move it in. It is gorgeous-- the photo does it no justice. Also, it has quite a story, which I'll post later. I'm thrilled with the find, though. Just picture six black windsor chairs around it.... it's perfect and was such a steal to boot!

garage floor

The garage floor was pourred on Friday and it looks great- smooth and even. Everything you hope for in freshly pourred cement. ha. Next week the framers will come back to frame out the laundry/powder room, fix the upstairs master bath window (placed too low), move the wall for the kitchen and reinforce a couple studs where we might want to hand something heavy (over the fireplace and the non-window wall of the music room. Then post-holiday the electrician will get to work in a big way and in a couple week's time we'll be insulating and sheet rocking!

Our "assignment" this weekend was to pick a color for the deck. We decided after a lot of research and input from our contractors to go with Azek decking which seems to be a really great product. The downfall is my vision of a dark stained deck was not to be. Here's a photo or two of us checking out the samples against the house. We've decided to go with the grey.