Everything's falling into place ....

Friday we got the lease for our current Waverly!!  We had it listed to rent and ended up getting contacted by a management leasing company and they actually wanted to lease our home to have as a corporate housing option for their clients.  After hearing the terms it was too good to pass up, it's a 10 year lease and they take care of all the maintenance, payments, utilities, and taxes ... and we just have to sit back and collect the monthly rent checks!  We even get paid when they don't have a tenant in the house.  The only downside is in the lease they wanted an option to buy the house after the 4 year mark.  We weren't sure how we felt about that since we wanted to hold onto the property for a long term investment but we just couldn't pass up the deal for the short term and we will still be making money off the deal so it turns out being a win win!

We took our weekly drive over to the house this weekend and all the cabinets and doors and such are in the garage so it looks like that will all start getting installed this week.  I can't wait to see my kitchen come together!!  The brick to all complete so the stone should be started in the next week or 2 I would guess.  No pictures this week since it was just more drywall and boring stuff ... Hopefully the next post I will have some pictures to show!!

Brick & Drywall

We took our normal weekend drive over to the house today and let's just say we are IN LOVE with how the brick is looking.  We had been deciding between 2 different brick options and the hubby is very happy with the one I kept pushing for ... which is obviously the one we went with ... after all, happy wife, happy life, right??!!

I can't wait to see the stone come together with the brick, but we aren't sure when that will happen yet as the stone hasn't been delivered yet ... and our project manager is, let's just say, less then informative.  Which, as long as my end project is everything I want it to be, I am fine with that.

The drywall is all hung throughout the house so they will just have to mud and sand it this week.  While walking through the house though, we noticed 2 leaks.  The one was where the bay window meets the house though so I don't think that one will be an issue because the roof isn't on the bay yet so I'm assuming that was the cause of that leak.  The other though I am concerned with because it is in the morning room near the doorway and the roof has been done on that area so I'm not sure what the issue could be.  The hubby is suppose to discuss it with the PM today so hopefully there will be a quick outcome we are happy with...

the unfinished areas of the front will be stone

the family room from the kitchen showing the start of the coffered ceiling

    

Kitchen Island Pendants

We finally decided on our kitchen island pendants and they are due to arrive to me Monday!! ... and this was after much frustration with the husband and I not seeing eye to eye on the look we were going for.  I had a fairly specific idea in my head so everything he was showing me was getting a pretty quick and sometimes harsh "NO".  Once I found these though and showed him he was quickly on board!

Pre Drywall Meeting

We had our pre drywall meeting yesterday since they are wanting to start the drywall this weekend.  Everything looked pretty good, although there were a few things the project manager noticed and is having the frame and electrical companies back out to fix.  Troy Granite is scheduled to template our granite Jan 23 so I have to get my sink picked and ordered asap.  This is the one we are thinking of going with (in cafe brown), we just need to wait to hear back from our project manager to make sure it will fit since it's slightly bigger then the standard one they use....

With all the non standards we are doing with the flooring and basement finishing the completion date has been moved back to be more towards the end of February...which is fine with us since we still have to get our current home rented out.

Brick, Electrical, and Plumbing Oh My!

We took a drive over to the house today and they have started the brick!  We are very happy with our brick choice and can't wait to see how the stone turns out with it.  There are other homes in our community with our brick but none of them have done the stone so we are a little nervous to see how it comes together.  Fingers crossed it will look awesome!
On the inside it looks like they have the plumbing done, hvac done, and good bit of the electrical underway.  Insulation has been sprayed and the wall for our basement media room was completed.
Every time I walk through the home I get more and more excited, I love the flow of everything and the layout is going to work perfectly for my family!

And we have stairs ... Finally!!

After having to cancel 2 appointments with guardian due to the delay of our steps beig put in, they are finally in and we had our appointment. We are very excited about the way the house is looking, I can't wait till some of our finishes get put in. We finally got it ok'd to have a different edge put on our island and to have a different sink put in rather then the standard stainless. We are dealing directly with Troy Granite for that and they tell me they should be going to measure for the granite after the first of the year so it seems it's moving along nicely!  Here are some pics of the inside framework...

Entryway Stairs

Looking into the kitchen from the family room (the pillar was removed to make room for the non standard island)

Master Sitting Room

Master (from sitting room)

Looking into the master bath from the master / with the closet doorways on each side

Master Bath!

Part of the media room (frame not finished, will be walled off) and the playroom framed

Full media room except for the wall closing it off from the rest of the finished area

Completed Frame!

Front of our home - elevation "C"