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!

Pre-Construction Meeting

We had our pre-construction meeting today. I learned a lot! We went over pretty much every inch of the house - inside and out. Our PM thought we would get bored but I loved every minute of it! We discussed all of the upgrades and selections we made. We discussed things that I have no clue about - such as water drainage from the house and easements. He told us where our air conditioner and our electric meter are located.

Our PM was telling us where our sump pump was going to be, and it was right in the middle of where the powder room goes in the basement. I don't know if he got confused about the fact that we were getting the powder room or about where it is located. Good thing we got that cleared up! He said they don't like to put the sump pump in the same place that it is in the blue prints because it's towards the center of the house, in the closet with the water heater and furnace. Something about running the pipes farther? I don't know. This is where we wanted it because it would be the most out of the way. He pretty much let us choose where it was going to go since his original space didn't work out. This was super important to my hubby since he is planning on finishing the media room later. We were worried that the sump pump would end up in the middle of our future media room. We are happy that it's also not going to be in the morning room extension part of the basement either. This space is going to be unfinished but it's nice to know that we have the option to finish it later without the sump pump being in the way. We will also have more room for storage in there. The only thing that will be in our morning room extension will be our electrical box. He also let us move the location of one of the doors to our unfinished area. Again, this is important for our future media room.

As I have read in many other blogs, I requested to have the switch to the garage coach lights be moved next to the front door. This way I can control all of my outside lights from one area. He said that could possibly be an option but that I should also leave a switch in the garage as well. That way if I'm going outside through the garage and I need to turn them on, I wouldn't have to walk to the front door. He made a really good point. There are two lights flanking our front door and a lampost. We might not even need to turn on our garage coach lights whenever we want our outside lights on. Our SR is getting a quote for us to see how much it would be to add this switch to the front door. If it's not too much, we will move forward with it. I will be leaving the switch for it in the garage as well.

I requested to have the switch for the light inside the garage to be located inside the house, instead of inside the garage. I didn't want to have to reach into a dark garage to flip the light on. This request got shot down. Our PM said that it was building code to have it in the garage. I guess I could have requested a second switch but it's really not that important.

Other great news: I asked for our PM to clarify our trim package. I wasn't completely sure what all it got us. I thought it was chair rail and crown molding in formal dining room, cased doorways, and crown molding in the foyer. Apparently it also includes crown molding in the study and crown molding in the upstairs hallway! That's so exciting! Especially with how much the trim package cost us....

Our PM is super nice and I feel like he will definitely keeps us in the loop throughout this process. He said we could call, e-mail, or text anytime and he will communicate with us through our preferred method. He even said he would send me pictures if I asked him to! We break ground on Thursday (instead of Wednesday) and our footers should be poured on Friday. Now I know when to make the long trip out to take pictures!

Now for the slightly bad news - Our SR has been telling us all along that our closing date will be July 20th. Even when our breaking ground date got pushed back, she told us that our "delivery date" would be the same. Our PM had a different story. Our new projected closing date is August 5th. That is 16 days later than we were told. We aren't in any kind of hurry but I must say it is a little disappointing that I will have to wait that much longer to move into my new home! He said this date is an estimate, it could be 10 days earlier or it could be 10 days later - lets hope for earlier or on time!