tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49687838289056981132024-03-05T00:00:45.108-08:00Building Our OakmontKristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-91670802394721920472013-11-21T10:05:00.000-08:002013-11-21T10:05:22.634-08:00A Month (or two) of Projects in iPhone Pics<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yeah, so, just over two months in our Oakmont and slowly....very sloooooowwwwwllly, things are getting done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last month we had our 30-day inspection. Most of the issues (all small) were fixed by the handyman traveling with our PM. The other issues were fixed shortly after. The longest was a scratched porch rail that had to be ordered so that took a few weeks. The installer came last week and also re-secured several of the toppers on our porch posts that tend to blow off in the wind. He left us two tubes of the cement in case we needed it. So far, every person that our PM has sent to our house has been very accommodating and very nice. We were waiting until the last of the (again, minor) repairs was done to fill out our email survey, but yeah, then we started PAINTING, so we still haven't done the survey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At first, my husband was against painting before the 10-month inspection and expected drywall patching but then he also couldn't stand the antique white FLAT paint in this house. It is just awful, especially with kids. They just breathe on it and immediately a grease-stain appears that is impossible to wipe off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">(DISCLOSURE: I have only taken pics with my phone and not my DSLR b/c I've been too lazy/busy to take it out. So the colors/lights might not be the most accurate but hey, at least it's something, right?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We hired a family friend who is a professional painter to help my husband knock out the 9-foot high rooms on the first floor. We did grey in the morning room, kitchen, family room and hall. After researching the heck out of paint and talking to neighbors on their experiences, etc., we went with Consumer Reports' recommendation of Clark & Kensington paint from Ace Hardware (conveniently about 5 mins from our house, too.) It got very high marks in coverage and wipe-ability and is similar in price to HD's Behr. We've been playing the coupon game, too, and haven't paid full price yet for a gallon. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We still haven't picked a light fixture for the morning room so it's really hard to get a good picture of what the grey looks like in here. Also, ignore the furniture, which is temporary. This room has become kid art room and my work area so it is evolving as I find the furniture that works best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just more shots trying to show the shade of grey... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kitchen before </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After - it's hard to see. Also, we still plan to replace those laminate counters with quartz - and it will be light countertops with no brown in them. I still don't like these counters but can't dwell on it much since they are temporary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Family room in grey. Oh the saga of our sectional...ordered in late AUGUST from Macy's. This is it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was backordered til 12/1 when we ordered it. We decided we loved it so much to wait it out. Recently, we got an email that it's now delayed until MID JANUARY. We were so angry. Macy's Furniture can't get an answer from the manufacturer as to WHY this is going on. We keep looking for another, but in the meantime still haven't found one we love as much so as of this very moment, we are still waiting for this one. ARGH.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So anyway, when 14 people join us for Thanksgiving next week, they get to sit on my mismatched brown leather couch and chair from our old house paired with our lovely, uber-comfortable grey/green couch from our old basement. We imagine the sectional will go where we have the brown stuff now and eventually we'll get two chairs and a round coffee or end table for where the grey/green couch is now. We did get a bigger TV (I was skeptical, but it was kind of necessary.) We are still looking for a media console/cabinet. We haven't found anything we like yet, and husband is still trying to convince me to let him build one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Painting stairwell - fun! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Grey down hallway on first floor </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We also did grey in the upstairs hallway -shown here: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The grey we used is actually a grey we loved from Behr and used in our old house - Gentle Rain. We had Ace color match it. The dining room is Latte, which I believe we color matched from a Sherwin Williams swatch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Latte going up in the dining room. We (okay, well husband) painted the entire wall, although our (his) next project is crown molding and a faux-wainscoting. Figured we may as well have fully painted walls until that project is done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The chairs from our old table (above) were another of his projects... he recovered those and we'll use them as extra seating and in the morning room. I'm currently waiting for this table and sideboard to arrive from Levin TODAY!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Husband went to JoAnn Fabric last week on his lunch break and wowed the ladies in his suit. He bought supplies to recover the chairs:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">New, pleather-covered seats! Such a transformation! We should have done it years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Husband is really a busy, busy man. His other projects include...STAIRS!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Until we are ready to build a deck/patio... we desperately needed a way to let the dog out that didn't involved the front door and front yard. Sooo, he built some stairs from scratch. From scratch b/c we needed more than you can buy premade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't have a pic with the railings finished, but they are done now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He also took a cue from the neighbors who took the rock from our foundation's digging and built a fire pit, and did the same with the rock from the house going up next door for us:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's done now, too, although I can't find a completed pic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, now he's started painting our master bedroom. He's obsessed now with painting, LOL, since we've seen what a HUGE difference it makes on these walls. He also may have lost his mind because after nine and a half years of marriage, he finally relented to letting me have an accent wall. I then lost my mind b/c I think I picked a super bold color...however, I think we both love it. The plan: 3 grey walls (yes same grey) and one teal wall, where our bed is. We (he) is partway done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My inspiration piece is this decorative box below that I saw in Target. Our bedding is grey, white and yellow. The accent wall matches the teal on the box. So far, I'm not including any coral anywhere, but I still love this box.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I started to panic a little here...I was feeling a bit like Ariel, you know, Under the Sea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I also have this artwork I got on Etsy to put on the wall:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Husband is cutting in the grey on the other walls every night this week after we get home from whatever activity we've had...and we've had one every night! I think I'm going to try to convince him that crown molding would also be awesome in our room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I still have to pick colors for the other bedrooms and other bath...my brain is pretty fried at this point. I need to start serious thinking about window treatments. Sigh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Right after we moved in we (he) did install this kind of blinds on EVERY window. We got light filtering on most of them and light blocking on the two in the girls' room. I LOVE these blinds, especially with the internal cord.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How long is this post?? LOL. That about catches you up on what we've been doing. I can see it will be along time before our furniture is set and a really long time before I can work on accents and such. But I am just so happy to have paint done. I love it.</span><br />
Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-23705962637660083812013-09-30T12:58:00.002-07:002013-09-30T17:35:42.243-07:002 weeks since close<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Holy cow, do we have some crap. After our initial move in and 4 pod emptying, I was lulled into a sense of semi-organization because we had a scheduled weekend trip the first Friday/Saturday after close so we waited until the SECOND weekend in the new house to empty our two big storage units. As in the units we filled in April and May when we put our old house on the market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh, how I wish it was actual furniture filling my garage and basement right now, but 90 percent of it, I swear, is just CRAP! LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Suffice to say, we are making use of all of the dumpsters around here to get rid of the clutter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I really won't have house pictures in this post b/c the house looks like it did in my last posts, just with a lot of aforementioned crap lying around. It's the internet, people, you know I have to wait until I have enough done that I can at least PRETEND it looks semi-decent. LOL. Also, I've had NO TIME FOR PICTURES. Life goes on. Kids get croup. Preschool driving sucks up hours of my life. Responsibilities continue at church and work. Some day, I'll take pictures, and post, some day... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge04Uxxbc9MPevCwA399PXdQ01bVDxjeDTO0pdPSDq_zaaZuQgm76WBgB3_KzGTFIEys7TauDgqB7UHSmDG-xF0Nkx0ghXyLnAukNpJK3lD2n_-23Ngw38Pkulkwdfrw6_CKVARVX3qy6S/s1600/IMG_3149.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge04Uxxbc9MPevCwA399PXdQ01bVDxjeDTO0pdPSDq_zaaZuQgm76WBgB3_KzGTFIEys7TauDgqB7UHSmDG-xF0Nkx0ghXyLnAukNpJK3lD2n_-23Ngw38Pkulkwdfrw6_CKVARVX3qy6S/s320/IMG_3149.JPG" width="239" /></a>Back to closing, two weeks ago - it was so dang fast. Seriously, it took 25 minutes and we were walking out the door with keys in hand. Props to NVR for leaving the best parking spots especially marked for those of us about to sign 30 years of our lives away. (Or hey, maybe you're lucky and did a 15-year before the interest rates jumped. If so, darn you!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We were at the house by 10am and with the girls occupied elsewhere until 2pm, we got started with a few guy friends unloading our pods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let me make clear that we are overwhelmingly satisfied and happy with our build, the house and the people involved from Ryan. The little nitpicky things I am about to mention are only for those curious and perhaps some things can be helpful for those still in the planning stages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So far, we have found very few issues - a box-cutter looking set of scratches on the top of our island that are actually really hard to see except when the light hits it right, some window latches missing, a tiny gouge in the bottom of the master bath tub (fiberglass) and a couple little gouges around the door knobs to the study. Seriously, not much AT ALL. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We had our refrigerator delivered the day of closing. I had to wait a day for my water/ice dispenser because my husband had to go out and buy a longer or better (I forget) connector. We did have some service issues with Verizon, whose installation we had originally scheduled for closing day as well. The Saturday before our Monday close they started calling leaving us voicemails that due to a service issue (they didn't have the necessary hubs in our area yet) they were going to have to postpone us. We were pretty ticked off since we had booked this weeks before and they had plenty of time to figure it out. Fortunately, instead of a week, they ended up being able to do it the Wednesday after close. Our mattresses were also delivered that day - Yay for master bedrooms that fit king size beds! The king size bed is just awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My husband ended up taking the whole week off from work and doing things like installing ceiling fans, the garage door opener, washer/dryer, tvs, etc. (**We paid $180-ish for the exact garage door opener we had wanted that also went on sale at Sears the week before close. MUCH better than paying, what was it? $600? $800?- I can't remember - and having it in our mortgage!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thoughts By Room</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kitchen</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've decided the laminate counter top I chose is too dark. That being said, it's fine and we picked the laminate because we plan to put in quartz in the near future so I'm not terribly disturbed by it. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The dishwasher is right next to the corner cabinet/lazy susan, which means both doors cannot be open at the same time, which means, whatever I need to put away in the lazy susan cabinet has to be set on the counter first, the dishwasher door closed and then the cabinet opened. It's not a huge deal, but not the ideal way I'd lay out that corner. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I love the laundry room next to the kitchen. LOVE.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We are so glad we got the regular island because we adore the open space (dinette technically) between the kitchen and family room. (We put a small round table on one end of the morning room for breakfast.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I had to buy a bigger sized step stool from Target (Oh Target... you may as well take my firstborn next after all the money I have spent there this month.) to reach the top two shelves on all of my cabinets. I'm 5'5". Even my 6'3" husband can't reach the cabinets above the fridge.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The pantry is awesome. I hate to complain about shelves since it's better to have so many than not at all, but the wire shelves can be annoying for some items. Flat shelves would be better. But again, just having the shelves is 100x better then not having them.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Morning Room</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We are still figuring out what to do here. We have a small table for breakfast with 2 chairs (b/c we only on 6 chairs still and we need 4 in the dining room for dinner. Haha), the girls art supplies, and my secretary desk. Our thought is besides morning use, we will use it for the kids art/craft stuff, and my work from home job/regular home management type stuff, the thought being I can watch them while I work. We'll see how that goes. We need some shelves and possible additional seating in here. We have yet to buy a ceiling fan for this room so it currently doesn't have its own light source.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's huge. Get ready for this - my husband is right. It desperately needs a bigger TV. Our old TV and our old furniture looks ridiculously tiny. Sigh. The sectional we bought is back ordered until freaking DECEMBER 1, so right now we have two (mis matched) couches in there and our matching chair and ottoman. It works temporarily, I keep telling myself. We like the recessed lighting and so far have also not bought a fan for this room.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We've had dinner in here every night. Needs some curtains, a buffet and well, yeah, I just want a new dining room set. We'll see...</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All good. No real observations here. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We have ceiling fans/lights now installed in all 4 bedrooms. We are on the hunt for new master bedroom furniture since we got the new king mattress. Our old furniture is in the guest room, awaiting its first guests this weekend! We want something solid wood so we are taking some time researching and price shopping. I hope to do this soon though. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We are getting the light blocking cellular shades (with cords internal) for all the bedrooms. Using our 10% Lowe's coupon from the post office. Ha. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Front porch</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All I dreamed it would be.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cul-de-sac full of little kids is awesome. Our girls ride bikes out there almost every single day. Exactly what we wanted for them! </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also, a great place for the girls to watch our neighbor's house go up! </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We got to use the pool twice! It closed today for the season. I'll close for now with that and will talk to you all soon with more pictures. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">P.S. Water your grass. It really does work. ;)</span>Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-13768369554210025022013-09-13T15:49:00.000-07:002013-09-13T15:49:38.485-07:00Final Walk-Through Done<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We did the pre-settlement/final walk-through this morning with our awesome PM Dave. It took about 90 minutes and he went over everything in every room and things like warranties, service calls, lawn maintenance, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The items to fix are tiny and we are very happy with everything about the building process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I didn't take many pictures at all because not much had changed since my last visit. The one thing I really wanted to see was our oven installed: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here's a wider view... our refrigerator (which will arrive after closing on Monday) goes behind the open basement door. There is another set of cabinets and counter top there as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The only other pic I took was of the family room...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now that I look at it, Dave's hard hat adds an artistic touch, don't you think? Hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't know if they say this to everyone to make them feel good but our PM said they (the workers on site) have seen a lot cars come into the cul-de-sac to look at our house. He also noticed (as did I) that our house really doesn't look like anyone else's on our street and few in our entire development. He said the front porch and stone have attracted a lot of attention and compliments from these drive-by-ers. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panoramic of our cul-de-sac from earlier this summer - shows the other homes and their elevations.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So now we just have to make it through the busy weekend without jumping out of our skin in excitement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Closing at 9am Monday!</span>Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-80339831537018178692013-09-10T18:13:00.000-07:002013-09-10T18:13:29.200-07:00Landscaping Done!<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Okay, I know I said no more pictures until walk through but my husband stopped by today after our PM told us yesterday that the landscaping was done. Drumroll... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The angle above really shows how much front/side yard we have since our house is turned on an angle to face the cul-de-sac. I had never realized how far over our property extended when it was all just rock. This is a good chunk more than I ever imagined. Yay!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We got our HUD-1 today and fortunately it was negligibly different from the original estimate. We had to laugh that the NVR rep who called said it was our "final preliminary" estimate. Sigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I just about finished setting up the utility transfers. That was a part time job in itself this week. Fun stuff like the wrong city and zip on one and the lack of our permanent water meter added a lot of drama. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I did get to do some fun stuff like buy our girls new comforters and a few accessories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's hard to believe this is finally happening after starting this whole process in early April. It's also amazing to see all of the choices you made on paper and from little product samples transformed into a real, life house. I'm still a little in awe of that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">5 days to close.</span>Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-65399341958838426872013-09-07T18:45:00.005-07:002013-09-07T18:45:48.284-07:008 Days & Counting<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We took the girls (and our friends) to see the house today. We got about 5 minutes inside before a dry wall contractor showed up (at 6:30pm on a Saturday) to finish sanding. They said painting was to start Monday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Immediately we noticed our lamp post up and a light on over the garage. Okay, so we may have had to find an alternate route into the house after the garage and front door were locked. I'm guessing this means we will be locked out the rest of the way through so I'm glad I got a few minutes to snap a few pics before we had to get out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our 2-and-a-half-year-old going up the stairs for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We love this stone detail on top of the garage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Heading inside...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Powder room fixtures - they are nicer than I expected, honestly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">She took off her cowboy boots to feel the carpet. I am SO pleased with the carpet choice we made. It's called Intuitive Sweet Tea. Our Rusmur rep had told us that with kids, we should go with the darkest color we could stand. I believe this was also a friese (sp?). We stayed with the standard padding, as Ryan had recently upgraded what was considered standard. It feels awesome and looks fantastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Laundry room, off of kitchen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pantry doors - I like the lever handles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dining room light fixture - I barely remember picking this out but I like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our oven was in the kitchen finally, but not installed. It was also in several pieces and I didn't have a chance to find the stovetop, which was a bummer because I wanted to look at the 5th burner area again and dream of the grill pan I'm going to put on there, ha ha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A very, very, very dusty kitchen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm now very happy with my choice in floor and cabinet...I think it looks exactly how I wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Morning room - I can't wait to use this room. We have a few ideas including my work space for my work from home job and the girls' art supplies/table so they can work on things while I'm cooking or writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The pass through from morning room into kitchen. I'm still not sure if this is exactly wide enough to eat at. We shall see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The black dishwasher blends perfectly with the (very dusty) cabinets. Love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Glass doors into study are in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They finally located our data connection and fixed the dry wall holes they made searching for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carpet is in upstairs as well! I really didn't have time to shoot many pics as the dry wallers were walking in the door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But....I got a couple ;) The girls loving their new room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our little one just ran around in circles, so thrilled at finally having open space!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Same light in girls' bath - not sure if they put the light down more in our bath or if we just have a bigger mirror. Didn't notice the difference until we were home and looking at the pics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We did notice this scratch in the porch rail - something to mention at Friday's walk through. Looks like a box cutter scratch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Grading was started and the back yard is looking a lot more level. Yay!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We plan to put our deck off the morning room:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Love, love the front porch. Sigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I also love the recessed lighting on the front porch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Overall, we are very excited to be so close to the end. I probably won't have pics again until the walk through. Have a great Sunday everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-66286712984069573402013-09-06T13:55:00.001-07:002013-09-06T13:55:13.945-07:00Quick Friday Update<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I got two quick text pics and a phone call from husband on his lunch break. Our porch is almost done! He was able to walk inside via the front door for the very first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The carpet is also in - this is the view from the kitchen at the family room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Only the dishwasher is installed in the kitchen so far... all of the interior doors are now up and there has definitely been some grading started. We are planning to head there this weekend with the kiddos to take better pics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Have a great weekend!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-47387864010372547652013-09-05T10:15:00.002-07:002013-09-05T10:15:41.007-07:00Porch Progresss<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Since I last blogged, the outside work has really kicked into high gear. We have a driveway, shutters, front steps, completed stone and they started working on the porch today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We really like the stonework on top of the garage. My husband is going to check back this evening to see if they finish the porch rail. I'll update this post if he gets any new pics. I'm hoping he can get inside and see if the appliances and/or carpet are in. These were the last two things I was anxious to see inside.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Zoomed out to shot dirt. Glorious dirt!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He also thought they had started bringing dirt in. Because our lot was pretty much solid rock, the PM was planning to give us some dirt on top before the topsoil and grass seed goes in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the moving front, we ordered our cable/internet/phone. We're going to try Verizon Fios...a first for us. They said to transfer the utilities starting a week before so I'm going to try to start that tomorrow so I can finish up by Monday the 9th. I feel like I haven't done much else house-related b/c this week was the start of preschool and other fall activities. I'm getting myself mentally prepared to spend every morning in my minivan, sigh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">11 DAYS TO GO!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Espresso cabinets - butter rum granite (it's laminate; don't be fooled by the name, LOL) counter tops</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Somehow I had forgotten if I had a single or double bowl sink. LOL. It's been a long summer.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thanks to a photo I took pre-drywall, they finally found our data cable that was dry-walled over.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Okay, so as soon as I picked up the Fresco Cream tile from Rusmur, I was pretty sure I was wrong. Remember this pic:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When I saw it inside our friends' house, and also outside, I realized Rusmur's fluorescent lights were really playing tricks on me. Here it is on top of the tile in our master bathroom:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, since I don't plan on putting fluorescent lighting in our master bathroom, I'm kind of disappointed to not be getting the cool toned, grey/white look I was going for. I'm hoping once we paint/decorate that I won't really care that much. Still, something to be cognizant of when you are making flooring selections!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Since I was running into the house really fast (I was so shocked to see our driveway was done that I completely forgot to take a picture of that), I just grabbed my camera out of the bag and forgot I had my portrait lens on it. So I couldn't zoom out any farther than my feet would take me. Better pics to come, I promise!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My special master bath single sink/dbl vanity - the other side is for my make-up/hair. We don't use the bathroom at the same time, so this will work nicely for us. Espresso cabinets. Standard counter top.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maple Cognac cabinets in the other upstairs bath. Double sinks for our girls.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One side of the master closet - again with the portrait lens limitation, sorry!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My husband stopped there today and found even more done, including the toilets and dishwasher installed. Did he take a single picture?? Uh, no.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm still waiting to see the shutters and other finishing touches out front - especially the front porch. So excited to see the finished look with the grey siding/stone/navy shutters and door/front porch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our final walk through is scheduled for Friday, Sep. 13... that's good luck, right? ;)</span>Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-15178936696602160702013-08-28T12:20:00.000-07:002013-08-28T12:20:52.463-07:00Tile Mystery and Appraisal In<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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Is what is installed in our master bathroom here: </div>
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It was just so hard to tell with the dim light of early evening. I had tried to rub off the top of the tile in case it was dust or dirt but it didn't rub off.</div>
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So I tracked down the new Rusmur Floors Ryan rep (the one we originally met with is no longer there) and she was extremely nice and helpful. She first checked all three orders (original selection, purchase order, work order, etc.) and the name appears the same throughout - Travata Fresco Cream. I anticipated that since we never changed the master bath selection.</div>
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So then she said her theory is that it is grout haze from the "haystack" colored grout they use, which has a brownish tint. She mentioned that you can see it up on the wall in the first shot (which is of the linen closet.) She said it would wipe off with water.</div>
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She said the other possibility is that the boxes were actually labeled wrong and it's the wrong tile. She offered to send someone over to investigate or let me pick up the sample tile myself and go look. What can I say but that I like to be in control, LOL, so I opted to pick up the sample (this evening) and take it over and look again. She said if I feel it's definitely the wrong tile to call her immediately and she'll put someone on it. I am happy with that response.</div>
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We also got word today of our appraisal, which was slightly nerve-wracking given the handful of bloggers who have had issues with theirs coming in under the purchase price. Ours came in exactly $990 over our sale price. WHEW.</div>
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I'm trying not to be overly irritated with NVR, but of course, our LP is on vacation and apparently will be until our close (I think??) and now suddenly everyone else is confused and asking for documents we already gave them. They also want to know why our old mortgage hasn't shown up on our credit report as closed yet (Um, b/c our closing was like 2 1/2 weeks ago?). Then they are asking for statements showing our deposit from the sale, which was totally in the stack of papers we gave them. How about LOOKING THROUGH THE STACK FIRST? Really, it's a lot of annoying phone calls for my husband who is at work, you know, trying to actually work?</div>
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Anyway, 19 days to go!! </div>
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So, on Friday night we got to enjoy a date night out thanks to our friends who are hosting us in our homelessness. We started out the date by heading to the house, which we had not checked on all week. We expected to see the stone to grade almost done:</div>
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We walked in the garage and surprise! There were our appliances:</div>
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Then we walked upstairs and were shocked to see the hardwood floors down. The PM said they were doing stone and shutters (those weren't up) this week so we had not expected to see the flooring in.</div>
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The bathroom tile was in upstairs as well. Honestly, I was a little perplexed by the master bath tile. It looked like it had brownish tones but it was hard to tell with the dust. My question is does this:</div>
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So, I don't know. I'm not sure who to even start asking about it. I think we packed away a lot of the order form paperwork in one of our storage units. I need to cross check the names of the tile first I think.</div>
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The stone is almost done going the whole way around...I'm very pleased with the way it looks with the grey siding.</div>
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Ok, this cracked me up. We knew the "stone" to grade was the lick n stick variety, but I guess I still thought it was real stone. Um, no. It's <b><i>stone product.</i></b> But, it's get this... <i><b>inspired by nature.</b></i></div>
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It looks good though, so I will just laugh at the irony that they busted up tons of actual, legitimate rock to pour our foundation, to put up fake rock all around the foundation. </div>
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Our closing date is officially set for Sep. 16 at 9am!! That's 3 weeks from tomorrow!</div>
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First - siding is done!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 18, 2013 - Can't wait for shutters, trim, etc. to get the whole effect!</td></tr>
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And they started the stone to grade - I LOVE the stone. We will end up with stone all the way around above the spray painted line on the foundation. They will fill in the yard up to that line. With our front entry, integral garage, we end up really getting our money's worth from the stone upgrade.</div>
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After taking yet another load of belongings to our overflowing storage unit (downsizing crap we took to the friends' house where we are staying), we took the girls over to the house. Our youngest was NOT happy to have her car ride nap interrupted. Our oldest appreciates any opportunity to pose like a diva.</div>
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The girls had yet to see the house dry walled, so they were anxious to see their room. The walls appeared to be primed now as well.</div>
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The #2 bedroom in the house is just humungous, so the girls are going to share it while they are young to allow us both a toy room and a large guest room. </div>
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The ceilings were all textured. This is the best shot I could get of them, although the color is way off. I don't love them or hate them.</div>
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Since we are all four used to sharing one bathroom, we are ecstatic that the girls will have their own and my husband and I will have our own. Ahhh...</div>
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The PM updated us that our final walkthrough will be Friday, Sep. 13 (ha ha) and that the closing will be the following Monday or Tuesday. </div>
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We had really hoped to be in sooner than that, since our initial closing date was Sep. 3...then end/middle of August...now Sep. 16. But I'll take it. It means 5 weeks living with our overly generous friends.</div>
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Trying to convince Charlotte that this new house thing is pretty cool. </div>
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All of our cabinets and counter tops are in the garage/basement. The kitchen counters don't look like what I remember. Granted, we were just picking a laminate with the intent on putting in Quartz counter tops ourselves, so it doesn't really matter that much. But, they were too pink for my taste. I'm hoping it was just the bad light.</div>
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Basement. Unfinished. Uninteresting to me :)</div>
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Egress window. Fascinating to a 4-and-2-year-old.<br />
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So this week we also finished submitting our updated mortgage application requirements. I'm really not sure why they make it like you pretty much have to apply twice, at least as far as gathering documents goes. I also don't understand why NVR requires copies of all the canceled checks that YOU'VE GIVEN TO RYAN. Um, you cashed them. You have the money. Why do I have to give you another copy of them? Anyways, that's all done, which is fantastic because the very next day, our friends' (with whom we are staying) dog decided to mark the cardboard box we were using to store all our financial documents. HA! One day sooner and all of our paystubs/bankstatements/canceled checks, etc. would have smelled of dog pee. I think he's kind of ticked that we have all invaded his home. Poor thing. Start the countdown, Berkley.<br />
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Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-19318557529418291872013-08-09T16:54:00.004-07:002013-08-09T16:57:51.050-07:00And the drywall was hung...<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
So, we're now officially homeless. :) We closed on our old home today and handed it off to a very cute, if very young looking soon-to-be-married couple. The closing was delayed TWO hours for the mere reason that the bank or title company (I forget which) was having trouble getting their computer system to actually print out the documents.</div>
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Since we had driven back from vacation (leaving the girls with Grandma) to go to the closing, we used the delay to visit the new house.</div>
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Voila - siding and cabinets have arrived!</div>
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The lighting inside is so weird to figure out for this novice photographer so you'll notice I eventually just gave up, threw on the flash and succumbed to the dreaded auto setting (ssh don't tell my photography teacher.)</div>
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This is my dear husband trying to show me how big of a TV we now "need." Um, settle down, Francis.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morning room view from family room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back side of family room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from family room back at morning room and kitchen</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dining room, front door to right</td></tr>
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You can see from the photo above that I don't like bannisters so our stairs have half walls instead. I don't see this very often so I thought I'd point it out for those still making choices.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pass thru from morning room into kitchen</td></tr>
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One thing I don't love about our Oakmont is the framing of the above pass through into the morning room. The model in our development, the Naples, was just wide open - no beam like this. I'm not sure why it's structurally necessary in the Oakmont as opposed to other models, I just know I'd like it better wiiiiide open. Ah, well.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Study</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bedroom 2 - girls will share initially</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bedroom 3 - guest room initially</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bedroom 4 - playroom initially</td></tr>
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I am <i>very</i> happy with how much space is in the girls' bathroom. There is easily enough room to add a nice bench for them to use to change/store bath toys and still have lots of floor space.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Master Bath Tub</td></tr>
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I thought I'd show a few from our master bath as well, since we chose options that I rarely, if ever, see on blogs. We opted to spend our money elsewhere and not do the luxury owner bath. At our SR's suggestion, we did an upgrade to a larger tub to accommodate my husband's (6'3") height. Ignoring the construction crud, I'm very pleased with its size:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Non-standard upgraded master tub</td></tr>
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Obviously, without the luxury upgrade, we will not have wall tile (it's a fiberglass surround) so I have plans to add other decor to make sure it looks "nice." :) The surround does give lots of shelf space for shampoo and the like.</div>
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We do get an extra linen closet in the MB instead, which is very handy.</div>
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My pics of the master closet are dumb and dark but you can see it on the left in the below pic, which was my attempt to actually get in one of our photos. :) </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me in MB on wall where (hopefully new king) bed will go</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me pretending to open imaginary refrigerator</td></tr>
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We thought the siding was going to be started this week - not sure why it hasn't but we have had thunderstorms the last few days. The big humidifier they told us about is going strong to air out our new drywall. It looks so much more like a house now. We are definitely super excited. It is also super weird to be leaving vacation in a few days and not have a home to head home to. We are very thankful that God has provided us with AMAZING friends, with whom we are staying. Here we come, Chris and Laura!!</div>
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Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-27397112228021678822013-08-02T15:34:00.000-07:002013-08-02T19:35:45.025-07:00Pre-Drywall Meeting/Rate Lock/Moving - Oh my!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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There is so much going on this week that I'm waiting for the day I forget a kid somewhere. </div>
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Pre-Drywall Meeting:<br />
My husband went to this early this morning. All looked very good and he
caught the one mistake we thought we had spotted in our last site visit.
They had put in a second sink pipe for the master bath. Yes, I realize
we are probably the only builders on this side of the planet doing a
single bowl in the master bath, but I have my reasons!! LOL Besides the
fact that we never get ready at the same time, I really wanted the other
side of the counter free for my hair/makeup/etc because I do not want
my actual bedroom cluttered up with this stuff as it has been in our
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We did, however, put the double sink in the girls'
bathroom, because, you know, some day the 4- and 2-year-olds will be
16- and 14-year-olds. Eek! The builders had them switched. After checking
the plans hanging in the window, the PM agreed that my husband was
absolutely right and they would change them. </div>
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drywall would be hung next week as well as the siding will go up and the
porch will be finished. Yay!! If it gets too humid, the drywall could
be held up a day or two to de-humidify. We have had unseasonably cool and
dry weather for 2 weeks so I'm sure super humid August weather will kick
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PM also told my husband we are looking at a close date in... the
second or THIRD week now of September. To recap we went from: 1) Sep. 3
at signing, to 2) mid-to-late August pre-3 weeks rain, to 3) first or
second week of September after framing started to now... 4) second to
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I've now
lost all hope of being in before the pool closes for the season and now
it looks like it will be after preschool starts as well. Trying to
relax because, hey, it will get done. Deep breaths...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Girls room (Bedroom 2) We can't figure out why these two windows are so close together when no other windows in the house are like this. There doesn't seem to be any obvious structural reason. Who knows?</td></tr>
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More deep breathing. When we put the money down for our lot in April and had the mortgage app meeting...rates were at 3.5%. We qualified for their lowest rate... That is now...4.5%(!!), which we locked in this week. I know, I know it's still historically a WAY LOW rate (my parents built in the late 70s in the 12%s) and I know it was an unprecedented (entire percentage in a short time) jump but still I just want to whine: noooooottttt faaaaaaiiiiiiirrrrr. It's about a $180/month difference. We are fine with all of it and knew rates would eventually go back up...I guess I just wanted to get under that 4 number. But, ain't gonna happen now. Lucky all of you who got locked in before it jumped!!</div>
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We are packing, packing, packing to leave our current home this Sunday
morning...we go on vacation and then move in with friends. I've had all sorts of lovely conversations with the post office, utilities, etc. I just want to take a very long nap.</div>
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Kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03659179315552639224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968783828905698113.post-29150054073174961932013-07-30T19:31:00.004-07:002013-07-30T19:36:35.701-07:00Pre-Drywall Scheduled!<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
While a lot has been going on inside, I haven't posted because I don't have any great inside pictures. I tried on Sunday but workers were inside...I unexpectedly got inside today, but didn't have my camera with me.</div>
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On the way back from an appointment today, we called our awesome sales rep as we were literally driving by the model home and asked him if we could go inside. He said he'd be there in 5 minutes and he was. There were some electricians in the house but it was toward the end of the day so not much was going on.</div>
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This was the first time I've been there since all the stairs were in and all of the rooms were framed. I was in awe of how large our family room is (actually our SR rep was, too, he mentioned that 4 foot extension really made a huge difference.) I'm also extremely happy with how big the bedrooms are. It was just so exciting to see the rooms all laid out. It definitely became more real.</div>
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Unfortunately, I didn't even have my phone on me while inside because it unknowingly to me had fallen out of my purse in the car so the only shot I got was on the way out:</div>
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I'm also in awe of how long the front porch is...our SR remarked today about what a great choice that was for a cul-de-sac home as we'll be able to watch the kids play. We noticed the lot on our other side is now SOLD. The SR told us it's a younger couple (20s) with no kids. They are building a Sewickley with lots of upgrades. Apparently the Sewickley is a smaller model but with all the upgrades it will be very nice. I had to laugh thinking about what kind of birth control my 2 and 4-year-old will provide. At least there are no windows on their side of our house. ;)</div>
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Also, we scheduled the pre-drywall walk through for this Friday morning before we leave on vacation!! Hubby will probably do this alone as I trust him and don't really care to find a babysitter since we are getting sitters on Thursday and Saturday to move out of our current house. Ack! Moving! Must stop writing and go pack another box. Our storage pods arrive tomorrow.</div>
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Besides being a perfectionist, my better half is also a DIY-er so there will be no moving company involved in our moves. He's orchestrated the moves of many of our friends so they have lined up to help him do the same, now that it's our turn. He packs a mean truck. :)</div>
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Also, day 3 of 28 days of mandated cage rest for our dog is done. Only 25 more to go! Sigh. But, really her meds have improved her pain level dramatically, which is all we really wanted at this point. </div>
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I'll update the house this weekend if we head out tomorrow with my camera. Happy Friday night everyone!</div>
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I didn't get to post pics last night because we spent the day picking up our 9-year-old dog from the animal hospital. She is on a month of cage rest (and lots of meds) to try to heal a possible/probable herniated disc. Has anyone done this before? How about when moving out of your house, taking her on vacation and then moving in with friends? Sigh.</div>
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Here we are at the end of day yesterday! More iphone pics from my husband, the lucky guy gets to stop there after work every day:</div>
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I swear SW Pa doesn't have clear blue skies very often, yet every time my husband texts me a picture on his way home, the sky looks like this:</div>
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Look, a second floor! And a porch roof! </div>
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Things are finally moving in the right direction here. We are one of two houses going up on our street right now, and they framed the other house first so we were feeling like whiny preschoolers impatient for our turn. (Wait, is this where my children learn it from?? ;)</div>
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He said he is hoping to put the roof on tomorrow and have all of the mechanical stuff done over the next week. Wahoo!</div>
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Then the week after that he wants to do the pre-drywall meeting/walk through. Naturally, that is the week we are with my family on vacation. I say naturally, because the closing on our current home is set for that week, too. Thankfully, we are only vacationing 90 minutes away this year (which is a big change for us) so we can drive back for these things while leaving the kids with Grandma and Grandpa at the lake. You know, a little closing, a little pre-drywall meeting...possibly a date night and drink sans kids, ha ha.</div>
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Now, he's amended that to the first or second week of September. Darn.</div>
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We are clear to lock in a rate with NVR, so we are watching rates closely and evaluating the whole points thing. Rates are updated at 11am every day, so one of these days when the feeling is right, we'll pounce. :) Gotta figure out when that Bernanke guy is going to talk again... ha. Regardless, I am trying to remember that when my parents built in 1979, interest rates were in the 12s. And I'm upset that they went from 3 to 4. </div>
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Yes, I'm teasing you with promises of pics of the plan's new pool and clubhouse to get you to look at more pictures of our framed first floor. Feel free to scroll down if you just can't wait.</div>
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Rock. Our future neighbors told us how lovely it was for them for several days in a row while the construction crew busted up tons of rock. Wondering how many times this will be repeated when the lots to our left sell...</div>
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Shot of our backyard...which we have been promised will be graded back to the toe of the hill so we'll gain as much flat space as they can give us. I have no idea where the "toe" of a hill is, however. I do know that since we are turned on our lot to face the cul-de-sac that our yard will be bigger on the right side of this pic.</div>
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A shot of our front porch - it extends across the whole front of the house - about 4 feet deep.</div>
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Now that you've been patient, here comes Majestic Hills' new pool(s) and clubhouse. They are on the street below ours and the lots above them were just recently sold...soooo I sort of trespassed onto them to get an incognito shot or two. I didn't want the people swimming to see someone taking creepy pictures of them. </div>
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View from our street of the whole complex - we'll have key fobs to open the gate.</div>
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The whole thing again... we are just hoping we get in and close before it closes up for the fall. I have no idea if they will stay open past Labor Day or not...it didn't open until June sometime so fingers crossed that our HOA fees will be worth it for this summer at least a few times.</div>
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Okay, so we bought a refrigerator today. Luckily, Lowe's will hold it for us until closing so we didn't have to store it ourselves.</div>
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I mentioned before that when I look at other blogs I start to second guess our decision to do the Espresso cabinets with black appliances. Then, happily, today I found <a href="http://florencewithryanhomes.blogspot.com/2013/01/looking-more-like-home.html" target="_blank">Dreaming of a Ryan Home Florence</a> and her pics of what it looks like - just what we'd hoped - they blend right in with the cabinets.</div>
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Another pic from the same blog with the stove and microwave visible. Our floors will be lighter but otherwise, a nice comparison to what ours will look like. I'm very happy to see this!!</div>
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Here's hoping for a dry weather week so we can finish the framing!</div>
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Just a quick update today... before the thunder rolled in at 4pm, this much was done: </div>
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We are hoping to go out this weekend with the girls and my DSLR and get better shots. We're also hoping may they will work on Saturday to make up for all of the missed, bad weather days. But even if not, my husband wants to get some shots of the pipes in the basement in case he wants to dig up the concrete in the future for a wet bar. :)</div>
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His current project digging down under our current house to install a sump pump is apparently inspiring him for future concrete demolition projects.</div>
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Thankfully, our buyers are good with our sump pump solution to the dye test. Everything is clear then for us to close on August 9 and move in with friends. We've invited them over to our house tomorrow to figure out logistics as far as cooking, cleaning, groceries, etc. If anyone has any experience with extended living with friends, I'm all ears for advice! We're hoping this is a 2-3 week thing at most.</div>
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After several weeks of bad weather delays, our framing started yesterday morning (there were storms in the afternoon) and continued today... so a day and a half of framing down? I feel like other bloggers already had walls up by this day but I'm not going down that rabbit hole - we're just so relieved to get this going. Every day they can work is another day we don't have to live in our friend's basement ;). </div>
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My husband is able to drive by the house every day on his way home from work (and who are we kidding - he usually drives by at lunch, too, and sometimes on the way in to work) and texts me pics from his phone. We're planning to all go out Friday night so I can take my good camera but for now...iphone pics:</div>
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Morning room (we could only get the single door onto the porch because we have the 4 foot extension on our family room. This always made me a little sad but considering how much our 2-and-4-year leave our current sliding glass door open, it probably means fewer bugs escaping into our house. </div>
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Half of the morning room walls are up. The morning room windows will face east so we will actually get morning sun in it... depending on how much the hillside behind us will block it as it rises. This will be interesting to see when we're further along. </div>
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As I type this, my ever-industrious better half is sledge hammering through rock in our basement to get the last few inches down to install the sump pump and bucket into the ground under the laundry room. The buyers want to come look at it in the next day or so. We are just praying that this is all resolved shortly so that the bleeding of money can stop.</div>
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I am continually amused by the random stuff that finds its way to you once you sign some papers... our current township called my cell phone to inform me that before we can leave the township we have to pay them the $2.10 in local income tax they claim we own them from 2010. Besides the fact that my husband remembers sending them a ridiculously low check like that before, just. really. You didn't care that we owed it two months ago, but now that we're leaving it's all, heeeeyyyy, we need our two bucks.</div>
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The township ordered us to dig up both floor drains (garage and laundry room.) The plumber found an interior French drain running into the sanitary sewer line in the laundry room. The township mandated these be cut off and capped. We opted to have my husband install a sump pump himself to save thousands. So the end effect is, the we-didn't-know-it-existed interior French drain that was apparently keeping our basement dry all these years is still draining, but now will drain properly into the storm sewer via the pump, instead of into the sanitary sewer, which is and always has been, illegal. We think doing the pump work ourselves will keep this project at around $1500, instead of much more. We could not avoid paying the master plumber for the work the township mandated. We are still waiting to hear if the buyers are okay with all of this work. Considering we are paying for everything, I think they are getting an awesome deal. </div>
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Today, however, while 95 degrees out, has been dry. As soon as the framing is complete, the PM has promised us a more accurate finish date, which will be nice to have since we are staying with friends after our old house closes on Aug. 9. I imagine it will be a little like being back in the college dorms again, except this time with 3 preschool girls thrown into the mix.</div>
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I wish I had some framing pictures to post, but alas after several weeks of rain, thunderstorms and more rain, we *still* are not framed. Our PM assures us this will happen next week but I'm getting uncomfortable about our closing date and how many weeks we are going to be staying with friends.</div>
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But to take my mind off of that, is that fact that we FAILED our dye test on our current home today. It was built in 1972 (mind you, before either of us was born) and apparently whatever geniuses built this house may have routed a French drain into the sanitary sewer, a huge no-no. The plumber and public works can't find any evidence that this was done after the fact as there are no marks in the concrete suggesting it was cut open, so it must have gone in at first construction. IN 1972!! The local government just started requiring dye tests in 2006, after we bought the house in 2004, so the owners right before us would not have had to pass one in order to sell to us.</div>
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So as of now, I am waiting for a call back from the plumber to hear how his talk with the public works director went...and if this will cost us hundreds or thousands of dollars. If the pipes are active and not bone dry, we will need a sump pump installed. If they are bone dry and appear to not be active then we may get away with just sealing them off...however, considering how dry our basement is I'm betting it's likely that the drain is working and draining straight where it's not supposed to be. At the very least they will be jackhammering up both the garage and laundry room drains to check, which won't be cheap either. Plus the dye test itself was almost $200. Is this normal?!?</div>
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I can't see any logical way to fight this, but can I at least plead how unfair it is for us to have to pay for someone's mistake 40 years ago??</div>
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Let's not even discuss climbing interest rates, which were below 3.5 when we first started this building process. I'm just not going to think about it today, I'll think about it tomorrow (h/t Scarlett O'Hara.)</div>
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We're trying to be patient but I'm honestly a little bummed because we thought we'd be done framing by now. Instead, thunderstorms every day last week and ran this week prevented much of that work from happening...blah.</div>
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But we have beams. Our PM told us that today they could finally bring in the tall (metal) crane without the fear of storms and I guess you need the beams before you can frame, right? Small steps...</div>
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Well since tomorrow is the 4th of July, I'm guessing work will be minimal until next week. I'm going to try to relax and enjoy the holiday. Happy Independence Day!</div>
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In June we had our pre-construction meeting with our Project Manager, Dave. He seems very competent, very easy to talk to and very calm...all qualities I appreciate in the man directing the building of your home.</div>
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He explained the layout of our lot, which being on the side of the cul-de-sac makes it a little funky to understand b/c they turn the house to face the curve of the street. What it means it our backyard will be bigger on the left side rather than being uniform across the back. We've been brainstorming different ideas with decks that I think will be really cool.</div>
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I do have pics of the groundbreaking but they are still on my phone and not terribly exciting. Interesting though that they hit a TON of rock when they started digging. Apparently we are getting quite the deal on that as it was no minor extra expense to have to break up 4 feet of rock. My husband calls it our Biblical house... as in the Biblical command to build your house on rock. ;)</div>
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The view from the back of our house - a view that soon will never be again, ha ha. </div>
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This the view from our driveway into the cul-de-sac where our children spent almost an hour tonight running around with the half dozen other little ones who were out playing. I think our 4 1/2-year-old was the oldest one! It was awesome. We can't wait to live around people our age with kids. Our current street is filled with perfectly nice people, but no kids and no one in our similar stage of life. We can't wait to sit on our front porch and watch the kids ride bikes in the cul-de-sac. One neighbor told us they could see the township fireworks just over the center of this pic...meaning...we should have a great porch view of them. If you're not from Pittsburgh...let me just tell you, this is a big deal. Fireworks. From your front porch. </div>
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Master bath with the non-standard but not luxury bathtub...i.e. it's a larger tub than the standard one but we opted not to do the luxury owner's suite...it's just not us. </div>
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View from the street of the poured walls of the basement, utilities that went in and our windows. </div>
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The next thing we seemed to do was visit the nearby Oakmont model home and discuss ideas and how we would arrange things, etc. Luckily, the model is only about 5 minutes from our current house. I actually liked the decorating style MUCH more in the Naples model in our actual development than in this model, but at least you get the layout. My apologies that all of these are just iphone pics, so they pretty much blow.</div>
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View from kitchen into family room on left and morning room on right. We are doing the morning room and the 4 foot extension on the family room. We are *not* doing a fireplace so we will have extra windows included in our extension. We also changed our minds at the end and went down to a regular size island so we can have that area open for a dinette table. We purposely don't want the morning room to just be another dining room so we are going to try it this way. I might decide I just want the whole area open and move the table, but we'll see.</div>
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The model has the morning room set up with a dining table.</div>
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The master bedroom from the bathroom side. It was pretty much impossible to get all in one shot. No panoramic on my iPhone4 :)</div>
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Shot from front door into formal dining room. We did not go for the bay window or the extra trim. We'll do the crown molding ourselves. My husband did it in our current house and got pretty darn good at it. I'll hire him out ;)</div>
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View from front door of foyer, hall closet and study. We did do the study option with the glass French doors. </div>
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Bedroom 2 or 3, I can't remember. Our girls will share the big bedroom at least initially.</div>
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The other big bedroom, which will be our guest room at least for the next few years.</div>
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The smaller 4th bedroom. We are doing the 4 bedroom option with the closed foyer upstairs. This will probably be a playroom.</div>
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Upstairs hall closet outside of the girls' bathroom.</div>
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Main hall bath that our girls will share.</div>
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What the closed foyer, 4 bedroom looks like at top of stairs. Master is on the right.</div>
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Formal dining room again</div>
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Inside of the study</div>
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The large, lovely pantry in the kitchen. The laundry room is to the left. The dining room to the right.</div>
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View from kitchen to front door.</div>
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View from family room to kitchen/morning room.</div>
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Other side of kitchen - door to basement to the right of the refrigerator.</div>
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