Don't Mess with a Girl & Her Crown Molding

Things are moving super fast in our house lately! We close two weeks from today! I texted my PM to ask him when the stone would be put on the fireplace and he said it was finished already! I told him I was going to drive out there and check it out. Well, I made the drive and was super disappointed. I wish he would have told me that the painters were there. They had the whole fireplace and all of the kitchen cabinets covered in plastic. I couldn't see anything! Such a wasted trip. I drove home all sad and told my hubby. After dinner we drove out there to see the rest of the progress and hoped the plastic would be taken down by then. The workers were still there (at 8pm!) but they were wrapping up and had already removed the plastic covering! YAY! The fireplace looks GORGEOUS! We aren't going to have a television in our family room so the fireplace is the main focal point. All of the cabinets are in as well! Our PM said they measured for the granite countertops today and they should be installed next Monday!

Our PM also said our driveway will be poured this week. I was in the middle of a conversation with him and I asked him if we could place a pipe under the end of the driveway to feed our invisible fence through after closing. He stopped responding and that was around 1pm today. That doesn't make me very happy. If we miss this opportunity because the driveway is poured without us knowing, I will be very upset. I've heard of other bloggers doing this but I need some advice. What is the easiest way to "fish" the wire through the tube once it is under the driveway? My neighbor installed an invisible fence by just lifting up his sod and putting the wires under it. That sounds easy enough. He also ran the wire through the crack in the end of his driveway. I don't want to do this if avoidable. I would rather put it through the pipe if our PM ever gets back to us about it....

One thing that really bugged me about our trip today is that there wasn't any crown molding in our study. This was included in our trim package. I know that the tray ceiling was a mistake made by the framing crew but we still paid for the crown molding to be around the regular part of the ceiling. I also feel that they should put crown in the tray. It's not our fault that they accidentally installed a tray ceiling. That doesn't mean they can leave it unfinished. I texted my PM right away but I don't expect a response until tomorrow. I hope he responds first thing because I am super impatient and upset that this room was skipped over.

Our PM said we get any leftover brick. I guess this is it.

My beautiful kitchen! Can't wait for the granite!

Close-up of the gourmet island! It's HUGE!
The door behind the island is to the basement. It will be interesting moving furniture down there.

Food pantry to the right, door to garage in the middle, and laundry room is to the left.
At first, I was bummed we didn't get the option to have the 6-panel doors. I actually like the 2-panel doors better now. They look better than I thought they would.

I've been wondering if we would get a lazy susan! The verdict is in!

This empty space is where the dishwasher will go.
The sink is to the left and has a view straight out the morning room windows <3

If there is even a HINT of cigarette smoke in my house, WWIII will break out....

I don't like how the ceiling looks just above the cabinets. They textured it and the cabinets don't sit flush.  Hopefully they can make this look a little better. We would have gotten the trim above the cabinets but we didn't know how that would looks since they go up to the ceiling like that.

Knobs!

The fridge will be on the right and the double wall ovens on the left!
I wonder if they can move the upper cabinets up to sit flush with the ones to the left? If not, I will NEVER be able to reach these.

I don't know how I feel about this. This is the cabinet above the wall oven. You have to open the right side before you can open the left side. Weird.

The whole kitchen

Recessed lights! The big off-centered hole is for our in-ceiling speaker! We got the  home audio system. This includes two speakers in the first floor ceiling and two in the second floor ceiling.

My beloved morning room <3

The large hole is for our second home audio speaker on the first floor. The little one is our ceiling fan rough-in.
Our recessed eyeball lights are above the fireplace.

I now introduce to you, the fireplace! LOVE the stone!

I thought this looked cool. This is the only light in the basement right now.

They installed and stained the banister! This is the basement.

Looking up the basement steps.

Close-up

Looking into the basement from the stairs.

Rounding the corner from the last pic

Rounding another corner from the last pic.
The doorway on the left is to the morning room extension part of the unfinished area.

One part of the unfinished space with door #1 into this area.
My husband will be finishing this for a media room later.

Other side of unfinished space. This is the morning room extension. Door #2 into unfinished space.
I love that there is a door on each end of the storage area since it's so big.

The big hole in the ceiling is for one of our two second floor home audio speakers. The second one is right outside the master bedroom.

I love this railing!

I love this! There is trim around the window too but it's too hard to see. There is also crown molding in the upstairs foyer and hall :)

My favorite shot of the railing! I love the shape of our upstairs hall.

Tired of looking at my spindles yet?!? That was the last one, I promise!

Crown molding on the inside and outside of the formal dining room tray ceiling!

Chair rail in formal dining room!

Umm...there's supposed to be crown molding in here too. What the heck? I know the tray ceiling was an accident in here but our trim package still included crown molding in the study.
Don't mess with a girl and her crown molding!

Closet doors in one of the bedrooms. Love them!

Master tray ceiling with crown molding

I Balled My Eyes Out!

My husband and I have not been inside our house since the pre-drywall meeting. That was on Monday,  July 9th. I visited the house last Thursday but I never went past the garage and our brick was only partially done. Our PM told us that our brick and siding would be finished by the end of this week. He also said our vinyl floors, first coat of paint, molding, doors, and cabinets would go in this week. My husband and I challenged ourselves not to visit until today because we wanted to be shocked with a ton of progress all at once and we totally were!! I closed my eyes on the drive up to the house. I didn't look until I got out of the car. I literally broke down in tears. I was full out ugly crying. I was doubled over and my whole body was shaking. Why? BECAUSE MY HOUSE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! See for yourself!

The missing shutter is broken. Imagine the door painted black!

The back. Love the siding! It's called Georgian Gray.

Close-up of the siding and a peak at the cabinets that are in the morning room!

French doors to the study (taken from the inside of the study)

Free tray ceiling in the study!

Coat closet in the foyer

Love this! The railing will continue up the wall.

Check out that cased doorway to the dining room, the tray ceiling, and the chair rail! Too much awesomeness for one photo!!

Close-up of dining room tray and a shot of the second cased doorway leading from the dining room to the kitchen!

More chair rail! SO GLAD we got the trim package!

Another cased doorway. This leads from the hallway on the first floor into the kitchen and family room area. The door on the left is the powder room.

Powder room on the 1st floor

Some of the cabinets installed!! I cried when I saw the cabinets too! Seriously...
In case you are curious, these are the Wyoming Square Cherry Spice cabinets.

Cabinet above fridge. My wall oven and more cabinets will be to the left! We thought there would be drywall above this cabinet like in the above picture over the other cabinets. The ceiling comes down like that in the model and in both of the other Yorkshire bloggers. Weird.

Cabinets waiting to be installed! 

Can't wait for the stone to go on the fire place! I forgot to ask when that will happen!

I love the windows in the family room. They are HUGE!

Laundry room with vinyl installed and trim waiting for installation.

Can't wait to see the railings installed!

Food pantry? I don't remember and my husband took the pics.

Bedroom #3

Other side of bedroom #3

Attic access in bedroom #2

Bedroom #2, looking from the back wall. This is the biggest of the spare bedrooms.

Hall bathroom. That's not a double vanity. I opted for the counter space instead.  This bathroom is much larger than we thought! There is a big space between the vanity and the shower.

Hall shower.

Bedroom #4. The smallest of the spare bedrooms.

Another view of bedroom #4

Linen closet inside the water closet in the master bath. It's a closet within a closet! It was too hard to get a pic of the water closet itself.

Shot of the master tub and shower. We went with fiberglass and a vinyl floor, not because we are cheap, but because I HATE cleaning grout and tile!

Master shower. This will have a pull-out door instead of a slider. Good thing too since I hate sliding doors almost as much as I hate tile!

My new tub! It's deeper than the original one but not by much. I still think it looks a TON better!

Double vanity in the master bath! My side is the left! I love how tall this vanity is. So does my super tall hubby!

A shot of the master bedroom with the old garden tub chilling in there and a workshop for cutting the molding!

One of the two walk-in closets in the master bedroom. It's so hard taking a picture of this. It's about twice as big as it looks!

Tray ceiling in the master bedroom! Yep, that makes THREE total tray ceilings in the house!

My favorite window! Can't wait to see the chandelier hanging in front of it and I can't wait to see the railing installed!

We went back to the kitchen after walking around the rest of the house and found more cabinets!

A close-up of the front. So beautiful! I still can't believe it's mine!

Here are the two houses going up across the street. They look great! 

My only concern from today's visit is that the cabinet doors were a little crooked in the kitchen. They didn't line up at the bottom. I didn't look too closely at the ones in the bathrooms because there were people still working in those rooms. I hope this is something that gets fixed. If not, I will mention it to my PM after my next visit. We didn't take any pictures of the basement. It was super dark down there. I can't wait for the lights to get installed so that we can see it better and so that we can take pictures. I'm sure they had fun installing the vinyl in the basement powder room with just a portable light! Oh, and we opted not to get the shower in the basement bathroom so we got a closet instead. This closet is HUGE! What am I going to store in such a big closet that is located in my basement powder room? Any suggestions?

I still can't believe how far our house has come in such a short amount of time! It feels like just yesterday that I was whining about the framing taking forever! Our house actually looks like a house on the inside and on the outside! We never got to see a model of our home since the closest one is eight hours away. We did see one under construction in our neighborhood though. We just keep noticing things that we didn't know we would get, like extra recessed lights for example. Walking though the house just feels so surreal for us. I feel like the house gets bigger every time we visit!


I can't remember everything my PM said would be happening next week. There was so much! He said our walls will get another coat of paint, our plumbing fixtures will be installed, our hardwoods would be installed on Friday, and our carpet on Saturday! He also said our driveway will be poured. I'm assuming this means our sidewalk too! I wish I would have asked him when the stone will be put on the fireplace and when I will get to see my granite countertops! How could I forget to ask about the granite?!? What's wrong with me?!?! I'll have to text him on Monday! 


I just want to let everyone know that I read every single entry that you post on your blog. I have literally read every single post from beginning to end that every single person I am following has written. I haven't been commenting as much as usual lately because things have just been super crazy. I just wanted to make sure everyone knew that I am still an avid reader! I remember when I felt like I was the only blogger that hadn't even broken ground yet. Now there are so many others in every stage of this process. It's great to be able to relate to everyone!