House Update

This week has been frustrating! Our general contractors had set the first of May as our hopeful finish date. I figured it probably wouldn't happen, but it was still disappointing when it didn't. I had set my own finish date in my head for May 15 (our 11th anniversary), but it's HIGHLY unlikely that we're going to make that either. The weather is definitely not cooperating! It's May, it should be warm -- but the horrible wind and SNOW set back the concrete, which set back the stucco....then the stucco guys just didn't show up yesterday OR today to get started (ERRR!). They're supposed to be here tomorrow -- we'll see! We're not sure what's up with the tile guy. He did what needed to be done for the cupboards, then had to go to another job and we thought he was going to be back on our job this week.....apparently not!

There has been progress, just not as much as I'd like there to be. So, I hadn't even bothered taking pictures for a while, and I didn't choose the greatest time to take them today -- the sun was coming straight through the back windows and they turned out a bit hazy.

They painted last week.

And started installing the cupboards (which I love, LOVE!) this week. We went with a Knotty Alder in a dark chocolate stain.

My range hood will go in that open space, it's supposed to be here tomorrow and I can't wait to see it.

Space for my fridge and double ovens:

They installed some of the countertops today. I had REALLY stressed over which countertop to go with. I had samples from our cupboard guy that I was comparing to all of our other stuff and just couldn't decide on one, then I stopped by to talk to him about something else and realized that I had missed one of the samples -- of course, that was the one we went with! And I think it goes really well with the cupboards and will tie in my black appliances nicely. They'll have to cut a space out of the middle of this one for my range:

They've also finished all of the closets, and by "finished" I mean shelves and cubbies in each of them. Maybe I'll be a little more organized after we move in....and maybe not!

This is the 7' wall between the front room and living room. The plans were drawn to have a plant shelf on top, but because of the niche over the stairs on the other side, our contractors were having a really hard time figuring out how to tie the plant shelf in to it. This is what I suggested, and I like it. And it really is straight -- it's just hard to take a picture from this angle.

My front door is finally installed (still no doorknob though, hopefully I'm going to pick that up Saturday):

The guys who are doing our cupboards are also doing our stair railing, but we're waiting on the balusters to be delivered.

And they did manage to get the front porch and the patios poured, just not the driveway, steps, and sidewalk: