Let there be LIGHT!

Went to the house today to let family see the progress. We were met with the lovely glow of electricity! All electrical work has basically been completed at this point and plumber was getting ready to start when we left this afternoon. Not much to capture in pictures at this point, but next Friday that wont be the case.
  My project manager has lofty goals for the short holiday week. He expects the exterior of the house to be done, including driveway, steps up front and in back and finish the remaining stone work. On top of this, he expects all flooring to be completed and possibly even appliances! We shall see if he can meet this goal or not
   As we are getting closer to moving in we have started to really get down to business with packing up the apartment, we have been getting great boxes from PetSmart and Wegmans. We also are pulling the trigger on a washer and dryer. Home Depot has a banging deal on some front loader LG units that we are taking advantage of. I also grabbed a good deal on a nest thermostat from Kohls. Stay tuned for next week because it should get interesting!

Getting stoned...and I love it

What a week! They have banged out a ton of progress around the house. The absolute best part is the stone work! Worth every penny. We do have a few issues with it though. First issue was caught before it will require any additional work, the windows are supposed to stone window sills,they were prepared to install PVC. The. The next issue will take a small amount of rework. Over the first floor window the plans call for stone "feature"

Well, after my initial delight of seeing the stone, closer examination revealed our "feature" fell well short of expectations.

It looks like a bunch of stones stuck the wrong direction, not a designed accent.  We met with our Project manager today and asked what the deal was. He said that the design is limited to the stone they are provided, since they didn't get any of the different sizes this was the best they could do. It was quickly decided between my wife and I that no feature would look better than this attempt at one. Our project manager agreed to remove and match the rest of the wall.
   With the exterior addressed it was time to scope out the interior. All the trim has been installed and awaiting finish work and paint, that happens tomorrow. Kitchen is installed and bathroom vanities. Doors are in place, though they installed the laundry room door in wrong spot, easy enough fix.  We getting so close now!

 Basement

 Basement

 Basement

 Basement

 Basement stairs

 Next week they build the stairs

 Gutters and downspouts installed

 Ac all mounted up

 Yay its a kitchen

Living room

 Living room into dining room

 Hmm, might squeeze a 70" tv in there lol

 Sons room, still awaiting door and door trim

 Sons room

 Looking out from sons room

 Daughters room

 She likes her closet

 Look out from daughters room

 Her closet

 Lots of light to scope out her clothes

Kids bathroom

 Our master bedroom

 Master bathroom

 Master closet

 From bathroom into master bedroom

 Bathroom rough in

 Our tiny pantry

 Another shot of rough in

 Money shot!

Just can't help myself...

Went by the house this afternoon, no one was around working on it so I decided to slip inside and scope out the progress. Its pretty cool to see the inside and really get a feel for the room sizes. Garage is filled with trim, cabinets, doors and countertops so they are staged to do alot soon. Onto the pictures!

Plain jane white sink

 Doors paint counters etc

 Deeper than the super shallow sink we had in the last house

 Looking through the kitchen to the dining room

 Dining room into living room

 Future home of living room tv

 Looking into kitchen

 From living room into dining room

 Laundry room is definitely going to be overflow pantry, this thing is tiny

 Speaking of laundry room

 Decent size, should be able to get whatever we want

 Looking into the master

 Looking from inside left corner of master

 Master bathroom

 Master closet

 Sons closet, glad we don't have any bi fold doors

 Another shot of sons room

 Master bedroom again

 AC mounted up

 Good size unit

 Basement

 Will be easy to mount the basement tv

 Lots of room

It was starting to rain before i left so went back through and closed all the windows, don't want to ruin that drywall.