Front Entry Lanscaping

Here are some pictures of our landscaping as your walk past the garage to our front door and in front of my office window. Most of the plants our landscaper put in will come back; however we will have to put in new flowers as does everyone. I think it looks pretty good. If you are thinking about hiring a professional landscaper read on, but know its worth it in the long run.

Back Yard Landscaping

Although our backyard is not very big at this time we really don't care; its commonly known around the house as "my therapy"!!! Anyway here are a couple of pictures I took this summer.

Landscaping Around the Garage

Katie and I decided to contract with a professional landscaping company to put in flower beds, shrubery and trees. It was really worth the money, but anytime you put customize and professional into the same sentence you better get the checkbook out and write a fat one. We did but well worth it.

Living Room, Galley, and Hall Bath

Well its been a while since my last post, so let me catch you up on a few things. As you all know we closed on the 11th of December and moved that weekend. It was definately a stressful time. My good friend and business partner went to picked up our refrigerator and television. When we tried to get the refrigerator in the front door it won't fit, we wound up taking the doors off. What we both thought (or hoped) would take may an hour to accomplish ended up taking four hours to so. Now you are saying to yourself "what took you so long" well two males reading directions is never a good thing and we had to run after tools more than one. The next day (Saturday) Roger and I went over to the duplex and began to move all our furniture. Once again it took longer than expected, but we got 90 percent of everything moved. We also had our dining room table and chairs, living room furniture and master bedroom set delivered it was crowded in our driveway. Okay enough of my ranting here are some picture of our house, we love it.

Sod, Landscaping, Guttering and Lighting

North Side of the House

Yes one of the windows does not have shutters, but will shortly

East side of the house and our main entry

Okay you are really going to have to look closely to see the guttering, but trust me its there all the way around the house. Its the first time EVER I've had my house completely wrappeding wonderful guttering and it matches the trim on the house cool uh!

Our builder bless his heart didn't tell us he took out the sod when he priced the contract price to us so we thought we had at least a little bit of a budget for sod, like I said or so we thought. We put down 10,000 square feet of sod and it still didn't completed cover all the bare soil.

The good part is we did have a landscaping budget which you can see its not bad we like it. We opted to buy the big trees, Katie and I can alway put in scrubery (bushes) next year. Oh I forgot we also have a sprinkler system I love it or at least I do for now. Take a look see the house is almost move in ready!

Kitchen

Here are a couple of pictures of the kitchen with the countertops installed, backsplash grouted in and the lighting completed, I must say Katie did an excellent job picking out colors, textures, stain, paint, etc.

Lighting

My office

Gallary Sconces

Entry Way Light

Living/Family Room Ceiling Fan

Master Bedroom Ceiling Fan

Well its been a while since my last post and alot has happened. One of those things is all the lights have been installed and look great. Well most of the lights look great, our utility room otherwise known as the laundry room does have a great looking fixture however its very dark so I call it the cave. If you happen to the in the neighborhood stop by and see for yourself. Here are some pictures of other lighting.

Master Bath/Main Bath/Laundry Room CounterTops

The granite theme continues through the house, we love the color of this look. We were also surprised to find out granite is just as cheap or cheaper than alot of other materials. But the main thing is it all fit in our budget, now that's important!

Counter Tops Kitchen/Bar

Katie made an excellent choice when she picked out this coutertop, take a look and see what you think!!!!! Ithink they look great but I'm sure that is what you expected.

Driveway

Hi everyone its been a while since I posted anything. Alot has happend since my last post. Katie and I are getting excited about our new house and look forward to bring our daughters families home for Christmas, but before that happens a few more things have to be installed. One last big project outside is the driveway. Well they poured that about a week ago here are a few pic's.

Sidewalk, Garage Approach, and Driveway

Well it finally beginning to really look like a home, we are excited about the driveway and what it brings to the house. I couldn't be happier with the way its turning out, Katie is the genius behind this one and yes the curved sidewalk was her idea also. I see a game of basketball sometime in the future with my son-in-laws....

Front Entry Way and Dinning Room Window

My Mexician friends came back and finished the job. The front entry way stone and the dining room window eyebrow is complete now. I would of liked to been there to see the process, na not really I probably would of been disappointed and dismayed at what they did and how much it cost

Master Bathroom

Here are a couple of photo's of our master bathroom, Tiffany is much better at this than I. The way she tells the story it draws you in you want more, but then she leaves you right on the cusp. Okay back to the boring stuff, we wanted our vanties to look like furniture.

Kitchen Cabinets

Our kitchen cabinets are almost finished, the wood is maple which surprises me. They built most of the range hood cover today. The painters get to work tomorrow, probably staining the wood work and doors first then on the the kitchen cabinets the will be a little different, but you will have to wait on some pictures.

Master Bedroom and Bath

Looking into the master bathroom shower. Still waiting for a door to be added.

Looking into the master bedroom. It's really hard to get some of these pictures because my camera (thanks Aunt Benny) has some serious zoom on it. This is the best I could do but I believe there are a few more windows in there. Notice a trend? High ceilings, lots of windows...the place feels huuuge! Especially compared to the old house with it's 9 ft ceilings. Now Justin won't have to feel like a giant anymore ;-)

Looking into the master bathroom. Tiling had just begun and you can see just a teeny little bit of the bathtub on the left side of the picture right before the shower. The cool thing about the master bathroom is that leads to the laundry room! Genius!!! Let me just state that I realize this is not a new trend and I am jealous of everyone who has this luxury. I will think of you as I lug my laundry baskets down the hall and to the other end of the house, plus going down two flights of stairs. Ha!