Kitchen is 100% complete!

Construction is almost over!!!

We have a fully functional and completed kitchen! Who knew 1 month ago when this room was bare studs that it would look this awesome! We couldnt be happier.

We are still undecided on the backsplash but that can be done later on.
The color we used on the walls is Behr: Bicycle Yellow

The oven & fridge are Kenmore Elite and from Sears Outlet- love them!
The microwave is LG and is from PC Richard.
The cabinets, countertop, sink & dishwasher (Whirlpool) are from Ikea.


Look at the pictures!!

MA! THE MEATLOAF! WE GOT A KITCHEN!

As of this past Saturday we were 100% kitchenless. No cabinets, no appliances, no floor.
By Wednesday we have a 90% completed one! We ordered our cabinets on Saturday afternoon from Ikea. What a horrendous experience that was, although worth it to save $3500.00 and have the exact style of cabinets we wanted.

We also received our oven and fridge delivery on Saturday afternoon. Sears outlet! Go there! No pushy sales people and the deals are excellent.

Our floors are 100% finished as of Tuesday and that goes throughout the entire house. Finally!!

Ikea made the cabinet delivery on Sunday and we began to put them together. We were missing a couple pieces (SURPRISE!) but were able to put about 4 cabinets together. The next day Ashwood called and told us not to put anymore together and that they had to do it due to insurance issues and bc of our mortgage. Great! Less for me to do! So on Tuesday, John from Ashwood brought his crew in to build our cabinets. Poor guy...he was probably cursing us the entire time. See Ikea doesnt do words....they do pictures so the instructions were a ton of fun to figure out. But these guys are true professionals and got the job done with no complaints. I had to go back to Ikea on Tuesday night to grab some of the missing pieces. Another nightmare. I swear I lose a year off my life every time I walk into that place.

Anyway...yesterday we get an email from Ashwood with PICTURES of the cabinets UP! Whaaaat? We hauled ass off the train and headed over to the house. Its amazing! I looooove it.
We are still missing the door for the corner cabinet, the panel isnt on the dishwasher yet adnd the fridge isnt installed yet but its almost done!

We bought a ceiling fan & our faucet. The plumber is coming Friday to finish off the plumbing & hook up the stove since its gas.

I knew they would do an amazing job but it looks so much cooler (and bigger!) than I ever imagined. We definitely need some color in there on the walls. Too much white! We're still undecided on backsplash.

Check out the double apron sink & butcher block counters! Yummy!

New Siding/Refinished floors!

The new siding went up on the house a couple of weeks ago but we havent had the time to take any pictures of it. The front of the house doesn't really look any different than it did previously....just cleaner! We did vinyl shake on the front and dutchlap around the rest of the house. The color is cape cod gray. We will probably be getting some shutters (blk) up there soon as well as a new front door (red). Check out our fancy schmancy porch light! Love it!

Now...about the floors. We had to have the pine wood floors refinished. Originally we thought there was only some linoleum and some sticky tile on the kitchen floor so to keep to our fairly tight budget we were going to put down a wood laminate floor to keep with the theme of the house. Well when we started peeling up the floor we found under 3 subfloors- REAL WOOD! yippee! We wanted to have the kitchen darker than the floors in the rest of the house so we asked to stain the kitchen only a very dark brown. The rest of the floors were to remain as they were. Well...we get to the house on Friday night. Boy were we excited to finally see our newly stained kitchen. We unlock to door, open and look down on the living room floor....oh my god its so dark....oh my god they stained the whole floor.....oh no....WHAT DID THEY DO!?
Yep folks....the entire floor was stained dark brown.

After perusing the rooms I thought to myself "I kinda like it..." but I didnt want to say anything to Hugo since he had steam shooting from his ears. He was pissed....I was more pissed about the lack of communication rather than the outcome of it. The contactor was called and was so upset with himself that it wasnt what we wanted. We set up a time the next morning to go back and discuss our options. So we slept on it and when we got back to the house in the morning we fell in love with it. The whole thing. It looks badass! At least now all of the floors will be consistent with each other- no weird color changes.

Oh did I forget to introduce you to our new house guests? That was rude... Meet the McFlies!
Apparently when we started up our plumbing again after years of non-use we pissed off an underground fly colony from cesspoolville. They came up through open drain pipes in the house. WTF! It looked like the Amityville Horror! Flies all over our windows, walls, ceiling....PUKE! The picture I posted doesnt even do this story justice- its from a day later and also a basement window- these suckers were in each window by the hundreds on Friday.

The contractor came by and put some sticky traps up and opened up some of the windows to let them escape...luckily most of them are gone. I'm just praying we wont have any laminated flies on our freshly finished wood floors....

til next time!

Garden/Landscape pics!

We finally got around to taking some pictures of the outside of the house/gardens. I've been promising my Aunt Lynn outdoor pictures since before we closed on this damn house so Aunt Lynn this post is for you!!

bathroom is done! mostly.....

It's been a while, I know. Been crazy busy with house/work/life and we kept forgetting to bring the camera to the house.
A lot has been completed since last update. We now have a finished bathroom!!!
The only thing not done is the vanity counter top- which was a special order item and the pulls for the vanity drawers. Also a piece of the wall that needed some spackling - note in photo- we'll have to go touch that up with some blue. But you get the idea.

Our siding & windows are also complete. It looks beautiful- pictures on that later. We need to get some shutters - black of course and we're going to buy a new front door (RED!)
We bought a garage door from home depot that will really fit the whole cape cod theme we have going. Once all of these things are done i will take pictures, i promise!

Anyway...sheetrock and spackle was done in the kitchen- its looking a lot more like a real room now. So many outlets too!

This past Saturday we had the genius idea of taking the white painted over wallpaper off the walls in both bedrooms. GENIUS! ugh! Peeling it was a breeze! Oh no! Oh wait.....theres another layer of wallpaper underneath. Ok no big deal...we'll just peel that off too. Scrape if we have to. OH NO...OH GOD THERES ANOTHER LAYER OF WALLPAPER! WTF PEOPLE? Who wallpapers over wallpaper- 2 TIMES?! This is impossible and going to be a huge project that we definitely werent prepared for. But now its far too late. See the disgusting pictures.

We are still not able to move in yet which is a huge bummer. The floors arent finished or even started yet. No bueno. We were told now it will be complete by next Friday, the 23rd. Its only next Friday but it feels so far away!

Anyway...let me know what you think of the bathroom. We love it!

It's amazing what a few days can do

So many new updates! not a lot of pictures though since it was dark out when we got to the house. Well...The siding is on the house! I think it looks great! The front is the vinyl shake style and its dutch-lap vinyl all around the rest of the house. It's the same color as the siding we had replaced which is "cape cod gray". The windows went in today. I'm told it looks great!

I DO have pictures of the progress of the bathroom though. Sheetrock went up and the subfloor is laid down. It's actually looking like a real room now! I am a little concerned though that the bathroom wont be done before the 7th like they said it would be. I dont know how long tile takes to do but i imagine its gotta be a couple days to dry grout and whatnot. Plus we're tiling the entire tub enclosure so that has to be time consuming.

They are also putting sheetrock up in the kitchen today! We put a hold on the kitchen cabinets...we feel like theres gotta be better prices out there than what we got. Ashwood said they would supply us with 2 more quotes so we're just waiting on those.

All of the electric was run through the kitchen and the bathroom too. Theres soooo many outlets in the kitchen! I love it!!

I want those damn floors done though so we can start moving stuff in! It's driving me crazy not being able to go "home".

I'll try to get some pics of the outside of the house this weekend. Hugo left his camera at work. DOH!

sorry about the crappy iphone photos. It's all i had!

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