Our house is painted! It looks awesome! Hurray :)
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Walls, bathtubs and more
Next time we went there was the sheetrock walls up on the inside and our bath
tubs were
installed... It's so exciting to think of living in our new home. I can't believe that we're going to be 1st time home-owners. It will be so cool to see how all the colors come together... In all honesty, I'm still a little nervous to see how that all flows together :) Hopefully it's good, because like I said before... that day was decision overload and I was praying that all the color decisions we made would work well together.... But that's for another post.... we all must wait :)
My kitchen...where I will be
spending a lot of time :)
Sage hammering down a screw
that I had stepped on in my
flip flops... don't worry folks,
I'm up-to-date on my tetanus
shot :)
Our master bathroom...oval
tub just installed.... Can't wait!
tubs were
installed... It's so exciting to think of living in our new home. I can't believe that we're going to be 1st time home-owners. It will be so cool to see how all the colors come together... In all honesty, I'm still a little nervous to see how that all flows together :) Hopefully it's good, because like I said before... that day was decision overload and I was praying that all the color decisions we made would work well together.... But that's for another post.... we all must wait :)
My kitchen...where I will be
spending a lot of time :)
Sage hammering down a screw
that I had stepped on in my
flip flops... don't worry folks,
I'm up-to-date on my tetanus
shot :)
Our master bathroom...oval
tub just installed.... Can't wait!
Raise the Roof... Woot, Woot
I'm so behind updating this blog... we're moving in next week and I'm still blogging on getting a roof :) So this will be a short blog. We went next and the walls were up and the roof was on... it's getting closer.... so exciting!!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Footers, Foundations and Grading
I took my parents out to the property on Sunday, Sept. 13- just a few days after groundbreaking. The footers were already poured and the place where the driveway and patio would be were already graded. Sage was gone at WLC, so I was documenting things while he was gone. I went out again on Tuesday, Sept. 15 and the foundation had been poured... HURRAY
Ground Breaking
On Thursday, Sept. 10th we got a call from Rhonda letting us know that we had broken ground on our property. We were so excited! We drove right home, picked up the camera and headed out to document our new investment.
House Hunting
Sage and I talked things over in the summer and decided that we would start house hunting again. We contacted our EXCELLENT realtor to inform her of our decision and what we were looking for. As a side note, our realtor is absolutely amazing! If anyone needs a realtor, she would be a great one to go with. There are definitely some good deals out there, but we've decided, on a whole-short sales are a bit scary! I may be a bit of a germ-a-phobe, but the idea of cleaning people's grungy stuff up really creeps me out. And let me tell you, there were some disgusting and weird things out there...
Moving on: Rhonda (our realtor) took us to a Corey Barton subdivision. We looked at one house and it just wasn't what we were looking for. While we're looking, Rhonda is on the phone with Corey Barton people asking about other subdivisions. She gets off the phone and tells us she wants us to look at a house across the street. We walk in and absolutely fall in love with the place. The floor plan is awesome and perfect for us. Unfortunately it was way out of our price range. Rhonda surprised us with some interesting news: Corey Barton bought out another builder/subdivision at a reduced price. Because of this we could build the house plan that we love BELOW our price range.
Very excited and a little skeptical, we drove out to the new subdivision. It seemed to be a great neighborhood, close freeway access and in our price range. We went home and prayed about it and sought some godly counsel. After a few days we decided to proceed with building. We met with Rhonda and a Corey Barton rep. and went over the entire house plan to figure out what architectural upgrades we might want (like an island in the kitchen, window in the bathroom etc.) This was followed by a never ending mountain of signing and paperwork.
The next step was our Design Studio appt. This is where we picked out the house colors, flooring, counter tops, faucets... basically EVERYTHING that goes into/onto a house we had to pick in 3 and a half hours. Talk about your decision overload!! Thankfully our exceptional realtor came volunteered to come to that appt. with us. It's a good thing, because there was a lot of confusion going on in there (new people being trained and so on...). Finally, it was all done and I never wanted to make another decision in my life. More papers to be signed and then.... we were officially building a house!!
Moving on: Rhonda (our realtor) took us to a Corey Barton subdivision. We looked at one house and it just wasn't what we were looking for. While we're looking, Rhonda is on the phone with Corey Barton people asking about other subdivisions. She gets off the phone and tells us she wants us to look at a house across the street. We walk in and absolutely fall in love with the place. The floor plan is awesome and perfect for us. Unfortunately it was way out of our price range. Rhonda surprised us with some interesting news: Corey Barton bought out another builder/subdivision at a reduced price. Because of this we could build the house plan that we love BELOW our price range.
Very excited and a little skeptical, we drove out to the new subdivision. It seemed to be a great neighborhood, close freeway access and in our price range. We went home and prayed about it and sought some godly counsel. After a few days we decided to proceed with building. We met with Rhonda and a Corey Barton rep. and went over the entire house plan to figure out what architectural upgrades we might want (like an island in the kitchen, window in the bathroom etc.) This was followed by a never ending mountain of signing and paperwork.
The next step was our Design Studio appt. This is where we picked out the house colors, flooring, counter tops, faucets... basically EVERYTHING that goes into/onto a house we had to pick in 3 and a half hours. Talk about your decision overload!! Thankfully our exceptional realtor came volunteered to come to that appt. with us. It's a good thing, because there was a lot of confusion going on in there (new people being trained and so on...). Finally, it was all done and I never wanted to make another decision in my life. More papers to be signed and then.... we were officially building a house!!
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