awaiting appliances

So the kitchen is really shaping up. The drawers are really cool. They have some sort of anti-slam (my terminology) mechanism in them. You can shove them pretty hard and they stop just short of slamming and sort of ease themselves closed.

mind your step

We chose a natural stain for the oak wood floors. Here's how the stairway looks:

get out the bikes and scooters

We have a driveway!

one less storage container

Now that we can lock up the house, we were able to move all the stuff from our extra storage space.


Oh , and here's the workshop area in the garage.

well, the dishes can move in

The kitchen cabinets are up




The rest are...around.



powder room



bathroom


laundry room

missed photo op

We went to look at slabs of granite for our kitchen. It was pretty cool to see what is going to become our counters. Unfortunately, we forgot to take pictures, and considering Tom and I had to don blue hard hats- they probably would have been pretty amusing. I did find a picture of the kind of granite though.

Click here for: tan brown.

As you can see, it is neither tan nor brown...discuss.

a place for everything

Whilst entering our old house - "broke house" as J calls it, one would be tripped up greeted by a mountain of shoes, coats, and backpacks bit of personal clutter.

So we told our builder about wanting to have a spot for everyone's belongings when we came into the house. So he built this in the entrance from the garage. This is above and beyond, and I'm so happy with it: