It has been a while since we have posted about the house progress so I thought I better check in.  Jon and I have been off for a week and during this time we have made a lot of decisions about the house.  Our most recent decision was paint.  Those of you who know us know we can’t make decisions easily and there are SO many paint colors.  Friday we went to the house with our tile, counter, and carpet samples and picked out all the colors for the house.  Here are some pictures of what the colors may look like, not in our house obviously.  Here are the choices we have made so far. 

The tile for the bathroom is Mountain Vista by Shaw in the color Grey Shadow.  Here is a sample:

The color of the walls in the bathroom will be called Etherial Mood and look like this:

The kitchen counters we are looking at getting (if we can afford it) are quartz counters by Silestone in Grey Expo:

Cabinet in kitchen are Kraft Maid white cabinets in a recessed square door style:

Kitchen tile will be in something similar to this, if the color isn’t discontinued again!

The living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, and screened in porch will be painted in Amazing Grey and look similar to this:

The Office/Potential 2nd Child’s Room will be done in Breezy:

Abby’s Room and the downstairs bathroom will be Saybrook Sage:

Our room will be Cappuccino:

I think those are all the big decisions so far.  We need to get new pictures to put up….probably tomorrow! 

Here is another picture of the house (look to the right for our Flickr Feed) .  We are looking at a June 1st completion date.  I don’t have any updated pics of the inside but we have the East and West side of the house sided. 

Since these pictures were taken we have selected flooring, cabinets and have had our fireplace installed.  Things are moving a long well now that the weather has let up!

Because I have nothing else to say here are some updated pics of the house.   You can view more pics by clicking  “more photos” on the left hand side of the page.

We have a basement. I haven’t posted in the past week or so but the walls are poured and standing for our basement. We had to decide the window placement for the basement and made the first unplanned upgrade…another window. I can see how it will be easy to keep adding things as we go but we are trying to keep that extra stuff at a minimum. Here are the updated pictures. Chris said Monday he will start putting up the walkout walls on the basement and building the floor on top. We will keep everyone posted.

WOO HOO! The photos above are from Monday, the excavator was out clearing out stumps.

Today, when we drove by after work, we saw a hole!

This past Tuesday, we started a new chapter of our life…building a house.  We closed on our construction loan on November 6, 2007, and now the worries about money and weather and moving start.  Yikes!  It is so exciting but scary at the same time.  Chris, the builder, thinks that we will be breaking ground on Monday.  Jon and I go by the property on our way home from work so every day we will be stopping by to see the progress.  We both can’t wait.  Ever since we bought the property, before we were even married, we said, “someday….” and now that day is here!  Of course it has taken a lot of preparation.  Jon and his Dad have been out almost every Saturday for a couple months taking the trees down so we don’t have to pay for tree removal.  I have a few pictures of the work they have done and the location of our future home.  Keep checking for updates and pictures.