Getting closer to showers

They have started to connect our house to city services.  Water and sewer will soon make bathrooms more useful.

Maybe Rich should learn a little something about shadows…get out of the shot.

What do you think Trey?

Every once in a while we bring Trey to the house to let him see his new house.

If a picture is worth  a 1000 words then what does this tell us about our new house?

Is that a little smile?

Trey checks out the kitchen.

You’ve got to wonder what goes through his head. 

The elves put in the shelves

I already know one of the first things I’m going to want to replace.  The shelves are the metal wire shelving.  We are going to have to replace these shelves to something else.

These things are ugly.  The last picture is in our master bedroom.  I don’t think so.

Look at the pretty lights

The light is not right!  Well actually it is where the plans have it but it is really out of place.

 It’s hard to see from this angle but the light is too far away from the walls and is in the center of the walk-thru to the kitchen.

This is a little better view.

Let it be hot…let it be cold

We have our heaters and air conditions units. 

The down stairs heater.

The upstairs heater

And our air conditions units.

It’s going to be nice to have refrigerated air in the house.  When it get over 100 we can keep it cool in the house.  With swamp coolers you can only drop the temperature about 15 to 20 degrees which would still make it about 80 in the house.  I love the heat but that’s too hot for inside a house.  Besides that, Steff get grumpy when it’s too hot inside.

We have a problem Houston (part 2)

This is the latest state of our kiva fireplace

Here is what it’s going to look like when completed.

And here is what we had.

I think its going to be much better with the steps.

Time to start planning – Jonny Apple Seed

Here is our plot layout:

I know it’s a little hard to see but you get the idea.  Well we have to start planning our landscaping because we have a large yard with a lot of dirt.  A lot of dirt equals a lot of mud.  Lot of mud and new carpet…you see how this is adding up.  So the plan is to do some basic landscaping before we can move into the house.  Once spring starts we will add some trees and plants but until then I do want to put rock and a dog run.  Once I have something on paper I will post it.

We have a problem Houston

We found a problem today.  The Kiva fireplace should have a stepped facade and this is what we have:

Not a big deal according to the builder they just have to reface the fireplace.

Why did we get a flat roof?

Happy New Year! 

Well I guess we don’t get a lot of these type of storms but having a flat roof is going to have a few of it’s draw backs.  Well we have dry wall up and hopefully the construction will go faster now because they are going to be working on the inside and weather shouldn’t cause too many problems.

Looking into the entry room with Steff in the kitchen in the backgroung.

The Den and the kiva fireplace.

Going up the stairs

Top of the steps looking into the hallway to the master bedroom.  Trey’s bedroom is the first door on the left.

Looking out of the master bedroom into the hall with the half wall of the stairway in the background.