Settled in!

I know, I know!!  Everyone wants to see the finished house.  It has been a busy month and half but I can gladly say that there are no moving boxes left in our house!!!  The last one was cleaned out Friday night before our open house on Saturday.  It is a wonderful feeling to know we are pretty settled in.  I can finally concentrate more on school and such and just enjoy the house instead of constantly thinking on it.  The girls are all loving their rooms and Mike and I are enjoying the beautiful views we get to see both morning and evening!  Look below for a tour of the house and if you want one in person, just give us a call :-)

Front of the house with landscaping.  The girls and I put it in all in 1 day

 

Walking through the front door brings you into the dining room which is all ready for fall

 This is the living room area

 The kitchen - it is my favorite room.  Very functional!

 

This is the pantry.  

We found the shelving for it at a local Habitat for Humanity store.

That was a major blessing as it was the type of shelving 

I wanted but couldn't afford. 

This is the craft/guest room.  

I look forward to finding time to use it.

 This is Mike's hideout, oops, I mean office.  

He is going with a safari theme.

Master bedroom

 Her closet with more of the shelving from the Habitat store

His closet with a combo of Habitat shelving and Ikea items

Now to the upstairs!

 The common room where the girls can hang out

 

DD #2's room

Eldest dd's room

 The youngest dd's room

 

The twins' room

Thank you for visiting and following us in our journey!

Kitchen and bathrooms

Well, here it is September and we aren't quite in.  We received our certificate of occupancy last week but we are still waiting on the bank so we can close.  Lord willing, we will close tomorrow, Friday 9/3.  In the meantime, we have been working on doing finishing touches like knobs on the cabinets, shelves in the kitchen and mirrors/towel racks in the bathrooms.

Flooring

Sorry for no updates lately but we have had lots of delays.  We lost about 2 weeks waiting to get the trench dug to run the electric and then getting the electric company to come get us hooked up.  That finally got finished last Tuesday so our flooring was able to get put in after the house cooled down.  We are down to just a few things needing done so hopefully, prayerfully, we will close next week and start moving in.

This is the wood floor.  It is Amendoim engineered flooring

 

 

Here it is in the living room

This is the carpet in the pink rooms.  I don't have a good picture of the rest of the carpet

  

They stained the railing.  It is matching to the kitchen cabinets

My brother and Mike hanging ceiling fans.

 

Outside with trim color

I keep forgetting to upload this picture.  

 

It's August...

and no, unfortunately, we are not in the house yet.  We are very disappointed but we are hoping by the middle of August to be in.  There have been some delays that have mostly been out of our control but, hopefully, they are taken care of and we are moving forward.  Many main things have been done such as sinks/faucets installed, a/c and water pump installed, the tile being laid and the lights being hung.  There are also 2 of the appliances installed.  Hopefully, the next inspection will be done early this week and then the electric run so the a/c can be turned on.  That will allow the laying of the wood floor.  We are in the home stretch!!

Paint and Cabinets

There is color now!!  This week had some great changes in that all the rooms are painted, the outside is 75% painted (they still have the trim to do) and cabinets were installed.  The outside was also graded in prep for concrete and grass.  Next week, the plumbing and electrical should be finished up.  Not too much longer!

Very pleased with the cabinets and layout of the kitchen!  Can't wait to get it organized!!

Can you tell there will be girls living in this house?  We had 3 color choices in the budget so we had to be creative.  At least there is no pink downstairs :-)