Building the Dream: Let There Be Lights (and tile, and vanities, and molding…)

Um, you guys…

We move into this house in TEN DAYS!

It is looking so much different than last week! Want to see it? Please excuse the mess.

Big thanks to my husband for taking all these pictures for me while he was working on the kitchen at night (despite having bronchitis). Didn’t he do a great job on photo duty?! If they seem a little dark, that’s because it was way late.

The lights are in.

We bought our kitchen pendants from Overstock.com. I’m kind of in love with them.

Speaking of the kitchen, the cabinets are mostly in now. This is a bear of a project but will be so worth it very soon.

The counter guys were here yesterday to make a template. The counters are scheduled to be installed next week.

See our steps to the left of the kitchen? They stained the treads to match our wood floors. I’m kind of in love with those too.

What else am I in love with?

Oh, there’s this light fixture in our breakfast nook…

These sconces (on clearance at Lowes for $19!) in our entryway…

These bathrooms…

This one is for the kids. The floor is vinyl, but I really like it anyway and I especially love that we were able to get double sinks in here.

And, um, our master bathroom?

I lurve it.

When we were picking out tiles and fixtures and paint colors, I tried to only choose things that were timeless and I knew we could live with for a long, long time. This tile reminds me of my grandmother’s house, although hers was classic black. I thought black was too harsh, so I had the tile guys replace the little black squares with gray ones cut from a different kind of tile. They charged us for an extra hour of labor, but I think it was totally worth it.

And I can’t forget to talk about our molding because I love it too. We went back and forth with our builder several times because he had never done this kind of molding before, and we were probably kind of annoying about getting it exactly right, but, again, totally worth it. 

This is an example from the kids’ bathroom. The door on the left will be to their linen closet.

And here’s an example from the office. (I get an office!)

There is still quite a bit of work to do. Last week a huge rainstorm caused a lot of flooding in our area and wiped out part of our driveway, so the crew lost a day dealing with that mess. 

For the next few days, they will be working hard to finish the moldings, install hardware, carpet, mirrors, and all of those last-minute details.

Eddie and I (mostly Eddie) will be working tirelessly to finish the kitchen details and the fireplace mantle we are designing for HomeRight. (More on that soon!)

He started the mantle by himself last night.

The man is a machine, I tell you.

Ten days.

Breathe.

We can do this.