Home sweet home

Hi everyone, just wanted to let everyone know that we closed on Wednesday and moved into our beautiful home on Thursday.  Working on getting everything set up, we will post pictures soon.    Hope everyone's homes are coming along nicely.

Four Days Till Closing!!!!

 

 Ok, Im back.  I said that I would post more pics of the house as soon as all the workers were out of the way.  My husband and I went back out to the house today and took picture's of the house.  There are some last minute things that still need to be done and we saw some blue tape the PM had placed in different area's of the home that still need some fixing.  We still don't have our blinds, range or shower stall but we know they will all be in by Closing!! I must say that when we pulled up to the house, we were so excited! The outside looked fantastic!  The only thing the outside needs now is our sod and we were told that it is going in the day before we close.  We loved the color of our door!  The inside, although still a bit unclean looked Great!!! The PM said the cleaners are coming back before closing to clean again. 

 

 

Awww!  We love!

Our fridge

Kitchen backsplash, minus our range

Our dishwasher, sorry so blurry, pic's taken with I-Phone

Our sink with upgraded faucet

Picture of mud room coming in from garage

Our microwave

Kitchen Pantry

Mud Room again

Our free Pendant lighting!! They sent it by mistake so our PM said he just went ahead and installed it.  We were only suppose to get the rough ins :-)

Looking into the breakfast room from the kitchen

 

Living Room

Living Room showing our glass panel door

We love the glass panel door going into the basement!

Formal Living Room foyer

Veiw of the stairs and glass panel door from the formal living room

Master Bedroom

Master Closet

Master Bath

Sinks in Master Bath

Shower tile in master bath, still waiting for glass shower stall

 

Bedroom 2

This is bedroom 4 but going to make it into the computer room, also this is a picture taken from a previous visit before the paint was touched up.

Bedroom 3

Guest bathroom

Laundry room.  Looks small but didn't take picture of the other half of the laundry area

Hallway closet

 

Looking downstairs from second floor

 

Looking down at the first floor powder room from the stairway landing

Family Room in finished basement. Did not take a picture of the other side of the finished portion today. 

 Unfinished portion of basement

 

Last but not least...."Home Sweet Home"

We are still Here!!!

 

 

 

I know it has been awhile.  Things have been moving along a little slowly since the PM got back.  I thought we were ahead but we found out that there were several snags along the way.  We are still scheduled to close on the 5th of September but things like the electric meter, gas meter and water meter had not been installed until just a couple of days ago.  I stopped by the house this morning and ran into the PM.  He advised that someone was coming in to grout the bathroom floor, hang shelves, finish plumbing work, touch up paint and the cleaners were coming in to start cleaning.  He also said our appliances were going to be delivered before noon.  My husband and I later returned to the house at the end of the day and I could not get over how much different the house looked. The PM did advise that a gas range was delivered and had to be sent back because I ordered and electric range.  We were really happy with the way the house was coming along.  I did not take picture's of anything today except for the outside of the house.  They had painted the outside trim and our front door although they still had the door open because of the wet paint.  I did not take any other pictures because there were alot of people inside the house working to get it ready for us.  I'll post more pic's as soon as I can.  Our final walk through is on Tuesday. 

Master bath, shower not finished yet, PM says shower stall will be put up prior to closing

Bath tile floor has not been grouted yet

Guest bath

Backsplash being installed

Wood flooring installed, can't wait to see it clean

Carpet installed

Pendant lighting over island

Landscaping done, still waiting for sod

Basement carpet in family room

 

Basement

Wish the door would have been closed so I could have a picture of the pretty color!!

Getting a little bit closer!!

August 18th, we stop by the house to see what progress, if any had been made.  Upon arriving there we saw that our black shutters had been installed along with our outdoor lighting.  The electrician was there installing our indoor lighting.  We noticed that Guardian had been there to install the security system as well.  All of our trim and doors were painted and it looked like the walls got another coat of paint.  Most of the plumbing work was completed but not all of it.  The banisters had been stained but I was not really happy with the look of it.  The bottom post going upstairs looked much darker then the rest of the banister so we are going to talk to the PM about this.  They need to match it up better then that.. I must admit there were some things that were not pleasing to us and I may post some pictures of these problem area's later but we would like to talk with the PM first.  Our PM has been absolutely great but he has been away for a couple of weeks and someone else is filling in for him.  One of the big problems we had was that last week when we were there we saw that our door to our walk in closet had been hung with the rest of the doors but we noticed that the area cut out for the door was about a half inch higher then the door jam causing a gap just above the door that was visible from inside the closet as well as the bedroom leading into the closet.  We took a picture of it.  While we were there today we noticed that the walls had another coat of paint and walked down to the basement where we noticed that nobody had repaired the big square holes that had been cut out of our ceiling so that someone could run the gas lines that had not been installed prior to drywall. This was ok because we know that it will be taken care of before closing, however upon going upstairs to the master bedroom we looked over at the closet door and it looked as if the huge gap above the door had been re-drywalled taped over, mudded, sanded and painted.  I thought to myself, "why would they fix this and not fill in the huge holes in the basement ceiling".  This prompted me to reach up and touch just above the door and upon pushing on the area that looked like it had been fixed, my finger went right through it.  My husband and I started to get a closer look and was able to see that the area had been taped and sanded then painted over.  The PM would never have even known about it since all the doors arrived and were hung after he left to go out of town.  Mad was not the word for how we were feeling!  We truly believe that this was someones way of trying to fix a mistake the easy way! I can't wait to talk with our PM about it when he gets back on Monday.  On the brighter side of things, we also got our driveway and sidewalk poured as well and the outside of our home looks absolutely wonderful to us!!!   

Is it just me or does the banister look like it is stained a little darker in some areas?

Also they do not have our glass panel door up that leads down to the basement next to our stairs, It was sitting in the garage and the SR says that it will be installed prior to closing.

Love the drive way.  They had just finished when I arrived

two panel door leading out to the garage

the rest of the doors are all six panel

bath floor tile installed but no grout yet, sorry picture is sideways couldn't get it to rotate once I downloaded it to the blog site

sink with upgraded faucet

Guadian security panel

Guardian also installed our pre-wire for flat panel tv

furnace and hot water heater

central air unit installed

light fixture in entry way by the front door, looks like the hole cut out was too big for the fixture, something else that has to be taken care of

We got our mailbox, lighting, shutters and our poured driveway. We love, love, love the way the outside of our home looks! Can't wait to see it after all the trim on the house is painted along with the sod and landscaping being finished.