We Have Walls!

It's true!  The walls were completed yesterday and it's feeling more like a real house on the inside!  Here's a sneak peak!  (My apologies for the poor photo quality... not sure what was going on there because some turned out just fine!)

Main Living Area

Looking into the Kitchen from the Foyer

 Looking into the Kitchen from the Living Area

 Looking into the Hallway that Leads to the Master

The Master Bedroom

(our tub's in that box and that's a see through fireplace to the tub area in the bathroom!) 

(that door walks out to the pool area)

Master Bathroom

Looking at Chris's vanity from my vanity and that doorway goes to his closet

Looking at my vanity from his :)

That's all for now!!  It's all coming together!!!

A Whole New Front!

Onto happy things!!  Let's see what's been going on in the front yard...

We removed the old sidewalk and added a new one with a twist!

 We wanted to add some character to the walkway since we were tearing out to old one so we put a circular walkway at the bend and ultimately will have a fountain or some sort of decorative something in the middle.  It looks really good!

Here's a view of the finished concrete

And if you cannot tell from the photo above we poured the porch too!

And as of yesterday they were working on adding the cover

So I'll have to update you once that's done in just a couple of days!  Yay!  I'm SUPER excited about this part!!!


Now we're just deciding on what door we want.  I like this one!

(without those little rivets)

But instead of the middle part doing this

But Chris really like this next one...

(conceptually, we'd choose a different iron pattern)

We're still discussing it.  I think it really depends on the overall theme of the outside.

Here are our two latest choices...

You may recognize this building, it's my condo building from college!  Chris and I both really like the color scheme.

But my only concern is the cedar posts so I'm thinking may be this...

With a darker gray paint color on the house/brick (here it almost looks tan). 

I'm hoping that the cedar looks good with the gray and white color scheme above but we'll see!!

Let's Talk About the Garage...

It's been a little while since I last posted and a lot has happened on the garage front.  We've poured the concrete...

During

After

And built the garage...

But now our new neighbors are being super mean and I feel like doing this:

As if we've committed some personal injustice towards them.

When in fact we've added nice doors

And fancy strapping's...

And ultimately plan to do something like this if it matches our overall color scheme...

Oh, and did you see all that brick up there in front of the garage?  We're bricking the building too.

Most of you who know me know that I'm a very positive person and Chris and I incredibly nice people.  We're great friends with our current neighbors and are actually very sad to be leaving them.  I was hopeful to come into this new neighborhood and have more great relationships but instead, we've been welcomed with a Cease and Desist (which has since been dropped because they realized we were bricking it) and neighbors (one in particular) telling other neighbors what trash we are and how they cannot believe we've built a beer barn next to our house (beer barn?  not a bad idea, maybe we'll add a keg :)  ).  We made certain that we followed our city's code exactly and have the permits to prove it, we've done nothing wrong but are being treated as if we've personally offended several neighbors.  It's very frustrating!

My only solace is the fact that Chris and I are building our dream home and he's getting his dream garage where he can work on Betty, learn woodworking, and just have a man cave for his own personal space.

Who wouldn't want THIS for their husband?

I mean yea, it's a little over the top but pretty cool too.

I've decided not to stoop to my neighbors level and retaliate, instead I've just been trying to be as nice as can be and hope that eventually they'll see that we've done all we can to make it look like an extension of our home.

Positive attitude positive attitude positive attitude...