Tree

I love japaanies maple trees!  When we finished our backyard at our town house we bought a beautiful little tree.

I want one of each of these for our new house!!

Main level floor

EAK!  Wow all of a sudden it is starting to look so small.  I feellike im almost taking up the boys whole room. Not sure how we will be fitting 2 beds! :S

Look at my sweet HAPPY HUBBY!! 

Stair sin the basment.  Just dont plan to get anywhere! 

Framed basement

No wasting time around here.  Once again post baseball we have FRAMING! 

Cabinet Colors

We have now picked out our cabinets.  Was quite the topic for us. We have always wanted a Tuscan type home and now that we have selected some type of dark wood floor we have decided to go with lighter wood.

 

This is the style we were going for and selected a light brown color with a dark glaze.

We also selected to add a WHOLE BUNCH of extras.  Our cabinet guy was amazing and helped us pick out each of the elements to make it perfect. 

Just to name a few

• Pull out spice racks
• Separate stove from oven
• Hood above range
• Under cabinet lights
• Full extension drawers
• Soft close doors

Even adding everything we still came in slightly under budget!! What a great feeling.  I also requested that we have handles on our cabinets.  I LOVE cabinets and sad to admit, i open WAY too many drawers with my toes. So they have to be good for that. \

This is what we have selected

As always EVERY ONE of these choices is subject to change.

And just for kicks and giggles This is the back splash style I want ONE DAY!

Foundation FLOOR!

Monday means PROGRESS!! 

We have FLOOR!! the full foundation is now in

Picking out Lights

Picking out lights is STRESSFUL!!!
We received 3 books of lights from our electrician.(Genny)
I know there are lots of lights and choices but OMH TOO MANY CHOICES!!!! Wait did i just say that?
When we planned out the plans of the house we went through each room of the house and picked out where the lights would be so it was pretty easy to know what lights we would need.
For the main rooms we would have mostly can lights but there was still alot to pick out

 Our amazing Genny gave us the idea to do a few things more and we ended up deciding to add some sconses next to the fireplace. So thats what these photos are.  Chris has always loved brining the outside in, so with our rock fireplace we wanted to add alittle more outdoor feel.

 We also planned to have some pendents hanging over our island so we needed those to match the one over the kitchen table and possibly the entry.

 Here were some of our first ideas!

 We are fan people  I know some aren't, but chris is really good at setting off the smoke alarm when he cooks so a fan is a necessity in the main living area. and once you have a fan in a master you will NEVER GO BACK!!!
The fan aboove is my FAVORATE!!! normally fans have 5 blades and this one has 6.  Doesnt look alot different but it definatly has a style all its own.   And something I had never thought or seen before was an uplight.  This has an uplight! PERFECT for our familyroom!

These fans are SO beautiful!!! They once again have an uplight and have a choice to add a down light too. Perfect for the master! 

However the prior one was quickly lost beautify to this one! 

We live in a VERY windy area.  And we wanted to put a fan on our patio.  We were cautioned time and time again, so we picked this unique industrial one to hopefully stand up to the wind.  

NOW THE MOMENT OF TRUTH!!!!

OMH lights are EXPENSIVE!!!

Please excuse my hand written notes. If you cant tell the lights we had picked out the sconces were about $200 each, fans were between $200-400, pendents $70ish, dining light $330 and bathroom lights $100-200.  OUCH!! :( 

We then starting looking at other options. 

ENTER big box hardware stores! 

And soon we learned that even their lights were expensive too. 

Challenge time, find lights to fit in budget or find more money!! 

We sure have our work cut out for us.  Any ideas?

Slowing down?

We have been stopping by alot and so far in the last week we went from dirt in the basement to gravel in the basement. Now we are starting to pick out everything for the inside.  It seems so slow and so fast al at the same time!!