piles-o-crap

So this is what gets left behind after an army of Mexicans shows up and sheetrocks your whole house in a day. There are several of these piles around the house. I can't wait until my builder gets back from vacation and makes them clean it up. I don't want my house looking like the redneck house down the road with all the junk in the yard. I really need to get paint colors finalized and get my tile picked out.

On to some rooms you may not have seen yet...

Here's the kitchen (I'm standing in the breakfast area). The pantry, refrigerator, sink, and dishwasher will go down the wall on the left. On the right, there's counter space, the cooktop (which is directly across from the sink) and the built-in oven and microwave. There's a kitchen layout picture somewhere on this blog. You can look it up if you feel led.



Since I seem to take pictures of this wall a lot I thought you'd like to see it with some sheetrock on it...



My foyer looks A LOT different with actual walls! I suppose it's time to figure out how to bring the doors to work so they can be finished...



Here's my bedroom...or as good of a shot as I can get. There's one more window down from the single one that you can't see.

tight

So the insulation isn't pink. I figure it won't matter once there's sheetrock in there. On to the pictures:


inside the garage:



the living room:



OK - if you've seen one insulated room you've seen them all. Here's the rough-in for the theater room wet bar that the plumber forgot to do the first time he came:

riddle me this....

Q: What's pink and fluffy and itchy all over???

A: Insulation that's going in tomorrow!


(for those of you keeping track, this means that we passed the framing inspection today!)



***And to my dear friend Michael...I was so overwhelmed with the ugliness of the house before, I forgot to take a picture. I'm hoping that the siding and everything will be finished this week...so I'll post a pic then. - C

busy signal

I had Fred call my builder this morning. You know, one of those "come to Jesus"- type conversations. Hopefully the pace will be picked up. 'Cause you sure don't want to have a second "come to Jesus" - type conversation with Fred...

the latest hold up

They've gotten nearly all of the siding on. They started putting the shingles in the A-frame over the garage last week...and something didn't look right. I hated the way my house was looking. "Why didn't it look like the drawing from the plan?" I asked. "Why does it look so blah?" I asked. "I hate the way it looks, and I'm gonna be stuck living in this thing until either Jesus comes back or calls me home!" I thought. So I pulled out the drawing. My builder hadn't put the watershed on that divides the 2 floors and provides the frame for the shingles. He said that he didn't think I'd care either way. Hmmm. No wonder it looked like crap.

The vinyl siding guy is pulling everything off that front part today. The watershed will be built sometime in the next week. And I'm not the one paying to fix it.