House Update

Our new house is coming along nicely! It's amazing how fast it goes up. This is what the outside looks like now:

Pretty!! Love the stonework on the bottom and the ceramic tile roof! soon that pile of dirt will be gone, too, and we'll have an actual driveway!

The inside is really starting to look like a real house, too. It's so great to see everything starting to come together, and to see the design selections actually in use! So far we like everything we chose! :P

View from the family room into the dining & kitchen. We have countertops, cabinets, and tile floors!

A close up of our granite countertops and a sliver of a cabinet. Which is not black. NOT. BLACK.

Going up the staircase...pretty iron spindles (covered in bubble wrap).

This is the view out the back of our house, from the second floor bonus room windows. You can see the tops of houses out there but the rest is green space that will STAY green space. No peering into neighbors' houses & backyards! Yay! It makes up for the tiny backyard, I think. :)

This is our back patio. The windows are in the family room and the door leads to the dining room. It'll be a great place to have a BBQ and patio set someday!

This is our bonus room. Love the iron railing in the arches. The small door leads to the attic space...or as Olivia calls it "The Dangerous Place." It's good to know that she does listen, sometimes. :P There are similiar doors in her closet and in the guest room (which will someday be Caleb's room)...we'll have to invest in some good quality childproof doorknobs, I think. Calling it "The Dangerous Place" won't deter them from exploring forever...

Olivia in her room. She's so excited. I'm so excited to decorate it! :)

Master bathroom. Try not to look at the gross bathtub and instead focus on the pretty tile in the shower. :) The tile is the same throughout the house - bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, and laundry room. it's a very pretty swirly brown/tan. Darker than I expected it to be, actually, but it turned out very nice.

Our foyer reaches up to the second floor, then you walk through the arch to get to the family room. It's very elegant.

It's been so great to go by the house every weekend and look at the progress. It's so amazing how fast it happens. There are, of course, things we don't like or would change if we could...but not many. And I've watched HGTV enough to know that there "is no perfect house." It may not be perfect, but it's ours and it's going to be really nice. :)