Sneak Peek

 After a week or so of nothing happening we had a little activity today. The house has primer paint now. It will have several days to dry and hopefully later next week we can get the final coat of paint and we'll be another step toward getting everything done on the inside. 

Here's a picture of our open concept kitchen, dining room and living room area with the primer on it. Even with just that much done it looks different. Once the paint is finished up we can move on to flooring, trim, cabinets and fireplace. The painting is a big step toward other big things to come. 

Another Delivery

 

So, it's been a slow week as far as the house goes. Not a lot happening at the moment. The builder has been busy finishing up another house so we're patiently (haha) waiting for business to pick up again. 

We did have a delivery this week, our paint arrived. 

The painting will be a big step and will definitely make things look very different inside. If anyone would like to come by and take a look at how the house looks right now please reach out to us on Facebook. It's not going to look like this for very much longer. 

Per our builder we're still about six weeks or so out on the cabinets but there is a lot of other things that can be taken care of until then. The tile for our shower has been ordered and hopefully in a week or two that will start coming together. 

Waiting isn't always easy but we'll get there. 

Electrifying

 Another step in the right direction. They showed up yesterday to do our electrical work. They put in some underground electrical lines for us. We have a meter on the outside of the house so we're ready to have some power. Now we need something to power up. ;-)

While we know the indoor work can move pretty slow we're still working on other things. We're working on packing up our current house. We'll be putting ours up for sale at some point. We're not sure when that date will be but we're 'listing with Levi'. Levi Cox will be helping us make the transition from this home to our next by helping with the sale of our current home.

We're excited we're getting closer to the reality of our new house. 

I'm Blue, I've got Gas and I have Door Handles

 How's that for an attention grabber? LOL! 

It's been a busy week around here with things at the house. The siding went up Friday and Saturday and yes, it's blue! 

Some other work took place this week, they ran the gas lines. So once we're a bit further along they'll set the tank so we'll have our gas logs in the fireplace and the gas stove all ready to go. 

We also noticed over the week that the doors were not staying closed very well as they had no door handles on them. Apparently someone else noticed too so we now have door handles/locks on the exterior doors. 

We're excited to see what's coming next. Stay tuned! 

Audience Participation Results

To everyone out there who took time to read the blog and check the colors we had to choose from we thank you for helping us out.

Since things are moving along at a brisk pace for the walls we wanted to go ahead and make our choices. They are here today finishing up the 'mudding' on the drywall. They will be ready to sand the walls on Tuesday and then we'll be ready for some painting. 

We took the swatches up and put them on the walls to see if that would help and we were able to make a decision. Seems a lot of us think alike. 

The overwhelming winner for the dining room accent wall at 76% was Stop.

It was close for the color of the bedroom, that one was difficult and we had almost a tie at 45% each was Tame Teal and Swimming. We decided to go with Swimming.

We know the bright wall in the dining room is a bold choice but we've seen it in other houses and think it's a nice touch. 

Other things are coming along as well. We purchased the gas fireplace and logs and we'd like to recommend HMI Welding in Christiansburg to find reasonable prices on these items. Not a large fancy store but has what you need at a good price. 

 Stay tuned to see what may happen as we begin the month of August. 

Inside these walls

 Yes, you read that correctly, we have walls!

They finished getting the drywall up today and should begin the mudding process hopefully tomorrow. It really looks like a house now! 

View from the laundry room door, the open door is the backdoor. 

View from the front door, the wall to the right is the dining room wall we are going to do as an accent wall. 

View from the hallway near the kitchen

View from Serena's office

View from the corner of the living room, there will be a fireplace here

These pictures really make it look much larger than it really is but it's exciting to finally see it with the rooms defined. For some unknown reason I didn't take a picture of the bedrooms but I can do that in a few days. 

We're still deciding on colors and we appreciate all of the opinions shared from you all. We'll make a decision sometime this week and let you know. 

We need some help

 Yesterday some of the drywall went up in the house, we're not fully finished yet so we'll save those pictures for next weeks post. 

Now that we're getting the walls we want to do some painting. We want an accent wall in our dining room and we'd like color in our master bedroom and bathroom. Deciding on colors is never an easy task. We've picked some colors for each area but we'd like your opinion. 

We've attached some photos of the colors we've narrowed it down to. Take a look and let us know what color you like. 

These are the choices for the dining room wall. This will be to the right when you come in the front door. It's part of the open concept area of our living room, kitchen and dining room. When we were looking at houses we saw one with a wall about this color and thought it looked great so that's where the idea of these colors came from. 

No 1 - Obstinate Orange

No 2 - Stop

No 3 - Raucous Orange

These are the choices for the master bedroom and bath. We have two side by side windows in the front of this room and a transom window will be above where the bed will be. This will allow a good bit of light to come into this room.

Top left No 1 - Free Spirit

Top right No 2 - Something Blue

Bottom left No 3 - Swimming

Bottom right No 4 - Tame Teal

Let us know your picks in the comments here or on my Facebook post. We'll let you all know the most popular picks and what we have decided to use.