construction update: week five

the house is moving along very quickly. lance has been doing a great job with the scheduling and making sure everything is running as smoothly as it can. we are looking at an early to mid-may move in date if all stays on schedule. ahhh, a couple of weeks to relax before baby girl arrives, what we will do with ourselves? :)

progress pictures:
living room view from the kitchen - there will be built-in bookcases with cabinets below on either side of the fireplace and a tv space above the fireplace.

standing in the family room looking back towards the kitchen. the window on the right overlooks the backyard.

standing in the main hallway in front of the living room looking back towards the kitchen.

baby girl's room!

the dining room, though for us we will be using it as a playroom. sooooo excited! we haven't had a playroom yet and i am very eager to have all of the toys stored somewhere other than our living room.

standing in the main kitchen work area looking towards the breakfast area and then the family room behind.

upcoming construction will include wall texture (should be happening this weekend), exterior and interior painting, install cabinets and trim, finish minor brick work, install granite and tile and begin HVAC, electrical and plumbing trim-outs (means putting in switches, plate covers, grill covers, light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, etc) it is going to start looking a lot more finished in just a week or two! we will also be pouring the driveway and exterior walks.

i have been busy, busy figuring out furniture layouts, picking out curtain rods and other extra items like that that we'll need to have hung by our trim guy. it is making me think a lot more about things earlier than i thought i'd need to. it is hard to figure out where you want a shelf in a room if you don't know how you are going to lay it out! i guess that is a good thing though so it will be done earlier rather than later...or realistically never getting done.

i've also been in the process of packing up our house. luckily when we put it on the market (a long, long time ago...i think miles was only a few weeks old!) we cleaned out a lot of our extra stuff and put it in storage, where it has been ever since. so i don't have all that stuff to deal with. and it is nice that we are only moving a few miles away and we don't have a buyer on our current house yet so things don't have to be out by any certain date. but i am trying to gather things up that i can so i'll feel a little bit more organized because i know it will only get crazier when baby girl arrives in about 2 months.