granite

Here are some photos of the granite slabs that we picked out

the dark one is for the kitchen.. it should look nice with the cherry stain... the photos aren't the greatest.. it looks black with a greenish tint.. called uba tuba :) one is without the flash and one with.

the second one came out better that is for the bathrooms in the master bath and guest bath

March 24th.. stain and paint

Myra and I picked out our stains this morning! and this afternoon it is almost done! We couldn't stay long.. the fumes were pretty bad.

The Brick arrived in the afternoon too... it took awhile because we picked out some special brick :)

March 23rd after the snow

Here are a few more photos... the the wood is getting prepped for stain and paint...

We have a new front door... the railings are in.. but you can't see them :) the kitchen cabinets are in.. and the upstairs feels safer with the railings. Myra can actually look out the front door! On her tiptoes.

You can see the pattern in the front entryway.. alhtough staining that wood floor will be the last thing that is done in the house.. the wood floors look great! Especially the wood steps on the stairway.. that was an addition that is going to be well worth it.

We picked the stains today for the house and they are doing that on Friday and by next week they will be painting the interior... they have a lot of trim to paint first.

More photos... the clubhouse on the left is looking really really nice.. they have it landscaped and they are finishing up the pool. I took a few more shots of theh house.. a better picture of the kitchen and the stairs. The final photos if of our house from the street behind us. I took it because most houses line up on the street.. you can see how ours is on an angle... so that the house next door (which is being framed) sits quite a bit away from our house. Now on the other side, there will just be a walkway and a fence but that side of our house has no windows on the first floor, other than the bathroom.. it's a very big yard.. and the way our house sits on the lot, it really maximizes the space.

March 11th

You can enlarge these photos.. Myra and I picked out the tile and carpet. The tile on the big slab is for the guest and master bathrooms... both have big showers and they will get the smaller two inch tile and the big tile everywhere else.. it looks very much like limestone.. when you put it next to limestone, you can't tell the difference... the carpet is hard to see in this photo, it is offwhite, a little tan... Frieze carpet, it holds up very nice and it's plush. it will be nice upstairs and in the bedrooms. The little tile on the right is the tile that we picked for upstairs bathroom and the laundry room.. it is called chocolate milk :) it also looks like stone, but it will be 12X12 when it is installed.. this is just a sample. From the upstairs, you can look straight down to the entry of the house.. it's scary now without railing, but if you look at the photo, you can see that there is a design in the wood that will really stand out when it is sanded and stained and sealed.
The beams in the ceiling look nice.. they look small.. only because this is a huge room!

The front of the house hasn't changed much, but inside there has been a ton of work. The wood floor has been put down.... the only areas that are not wood on the first floor are the Laundry room, the powder room and bathrooms which get tile and the two bedrooms downstairs get carpet. The stairs are wood and they are looking great! The kitchen is coming along.. I missed taking a photo the other way.. there is a big corner cabinet with a lazy susan. It will look nice.. we are getting a tumbled marble backsplash and black granite countertops.. the floor in the kitchen is wood. This picture is looking down from the stairs into the dining room and over into the big living room. The house sits o an angle from the house next door, which now being framed.. so there is plenty of room on the right side of the house for the courtyard and fireplace. The front still looks the same... we are going to have the garage door stained rather than painted so it looks like the front door.