Category: architecture

19 Nov

Inspection passed, mortgage approved, and we start to move in

Unfortunately with all that happening I haven’t actually taken any pictures. I am sure the 60 or so more or less regular readers are extremely bummed but here is something to tide you over. These are over the course of several weeks, so they are old. Our current status is that we have [...]
11 Oct

Final Inspection Next Week?!?

We have our final mortgage approved via ING, the loan expires on the 19th which is fast approaching! Sean told me we are going to have the inspector come out on Wednesday for final inspection and Bank Of America is supposed to come out the same day. We are cutting it close, but the Sean [...]
16 Sep

The house gets some color

Jenn and I where lucky to get to the house as Sean’s guys started the exterior stucco on Saturday. The interior flooring is coming along nicely and the cabinets are basically in. We still need counter-tops, railings, and a bunch of other finish work, however, we are making decent progress. At this point, though, I [...]
12 Sep

Site Visit

We had another site visit today with Sean and Nathan. We spent a bunch of time looking at the kitchen and figuring out what to do with the cabinetry and our small island. We decided to move the cabinets back flush against the wall giving us a few more inches on the cabinet and requiring [...]
11 Sep

We have the keys to the house :-)

Jenn and I went up to the house yesterday to grab the keys! So now we are more official. Also, Sean started to lay down floors and hanging the cabinets. When we did the layout for the kitchen the elevations we used where off by about a foot so we have some figuring out to [...]