Lighting Choices!

Lighting can bust your housing budget, FAST!

We used this website to help us pick our lighting.

My lighting choices had to become fairly simple,

without a lot of glitz or fancy,

just to help keep within our budget.

(We still went over the budget, though.)

Stage Track Lighting

 Master and Family Room Ceiling Fan

 BORING fixture throughout most of the house.

Kids' bedrooms, mud room, laundry and hallways.

Dining Room Chandelier

 Dining Room Sconces

Kitchen Table/Nook

Two Story Entry

Master Bath Vanity

Kid's & Guest Bath Vanity

Kitchen Island Pendants

Backyard Patio Fan

Front Porch/Outdoor

Driveway Monument

Garage

 Powder and Living/Piano Room

Sadie Upstairs!

2 Stories Tall!

Interior Paint Colors

All colors are by Sherwin Williams.

Interior Wall Color:
Accessible Beige SW 7036

Trim Color:
Shoji White SW 7042

Framing has Begun!

It was so exciting to drive up and see that framing has started!

Yeah!

For the first time we could start feeling

the spaces and rooms we have created.

Walking inside our future home for the first time.

It was a weird feeling in a way.

Chris walking up to our Front Door.

My kitchen sink window!

"This can be our new home"

The kids think the pile of trusses would make a great new house.

I'm pretty sure all 5 kids found a room for themselves inside.

The dance floor.
Sadie promptly showed us her new moves on this floor.

Doors and the Exterior

Here's the door style we chose. It's called the craftsman.

I love it, super excited about this choice.

Here's our garage door choice.

We're not doing anything fancy to our garage doors.

No windows or fancy hardware.

Here's a rough idea of our exterior with paint and garage selection.

*The colors aren't very accurate actually.

The garage wil be painted in the main body color.

It won't be white.

We don't want the garage to stand out, we want it to blend in.

Should we paint the front door in a goldy color?

We probably won't, but fun to experiment anyway.

The Wood

We had some delays on the house with getting framers scheduled.
It's the busy season for building, so the good framers are busy.

Progress on the home has been a little slow the last couple of weeks.

But, there has still been plenty of decisions going on.

Kitchen layout. Where does the oven go?
Do we have 2 dishwashers?
Do we have a microwave drawer, if yes, where?

Laundry Room layout and cabinets throughout the home.
Do our kitchen cabinets go to the ceiling?
If not, are they empty on top or does the wall come down to meet the top of the cabinet.
This is called a soffitt? I'm learning new words every day with this project.

Do we want a hearth in front of our fireplace?
This means a bench, a place to sit.

Too many decisions if you ask me.
Things I've never noticed in a home before, until you ask me.
Then I still don't know how I want it.

Foundation and Garage Floors

Exterior Colors Picked!

All colors are by Sherwin Williams.

Main Body - Earl Grey SW 7660
Accent - Gray Bridge SW 2132
Trim - Westhighland White SW 7566

Here's our stone: