Bring on Christmas

Cleans Up Nice

Our House: Where the Rainbow Ends

Exterior finally finished (enough)

Our house as seen from the partially-framed bonus room of the #3 house in the neighborhood

Kevin helping us clean up the road before we get a violation notice

Sawyer helping me cut stuff

Hyrum and Emery helping with final grading

One column completely rocked. Only six more to go

Beginnings of neighbors on our street

Dad installed the dining room fixture today, which took forever to come in after it was ordered weeks ago

Downstairs bathroom countertop, sink, mirror, cabinet skirt, and towel ring. Beginning to look finished in places

Family room window trim installed, window seat, carpet, and kid movie-watching station (mattress)

Master bath tub

Appraisal values have come down since last fall, so we now have to finish Jonah's room and the office that we were planning to leave unfinished. Here's the sheetrock hung in Jonah's room.

Status of paint and rock

Finished deck surface. If anybody wants something like this, call me, I know a guy.

Status of paint

Another totally rad sunset

Man, look how big our garage is!

More paint

Having mostly finished electrical work, Dad has now taken to masonry

The first of the new color on the front

Setup for caulking the siding up high

Time for another awesome sunset

First phase of deck surface

Carpet!

The house all lit up after dark while the carpet guys were still working

Upstairs hall floor and trim done

Hyrum shingled the new roof on the back of the garage and laid the lathe for the deck surface.

Sawyer's closet

Hyrum working on our closets

Fascia

Porch lid and post wraps

The soffit guys installed the porch lid and wrapped the posts in aluminum. today.

Kitchen countertops and stair rail complete!

I think the cabinets really tone down the orange.

And Justin is a real craftsman. This is starting to look like a real house.

We had the inspector come over today to help us make a checklist of everything we need to finish in order to get a temporary certificate of occupancy. The list was longer than we'll be able to finish this week, so that means another week of late nights before we can move in.

Soffits and Fascia, more downstairs flooring

Soffit and fascia work began today.

And here's Jonah helping to lay the laminate in the entry. Almost done.

More Driveway, and Cabinets!

We don't only get awesome sunsets here, but beautiful mornings as well. Here's the cement truck arriving to pour the remaining driveway and the approach.

And here's Adam the cabinet guy inspecting the installers' work in the kitchen.

Railing

Here's Justin beginning our stair rail. He lives across the field to the Northeast of us. He can see our house from his, and came over one day to ask if we needed a bid on railings. He had an impressive portfolio, and his bid was the best we got.

Chandelier!

Today dad hung the chandelier in the entry way. I wasn't around to help with the scaffolding like I intended to be for this momentous occasion, but dad said it was okay because mom was there to know if he fell.

More trim

Emily had fun using the nail gun to attach the trim in Sawyer and Lydia's rooms while I measured and cut. I still find it amazing how the trim completes the wall.

First trim work

Baseboards and door casing in the family room. It really helps a wall look finished to have trim on it.

Same for the stairs.

And the downstairs and master bathroom tile is now grouted. Hopefully the grout will encourage the tiles in the master bathroom to stay in place, after several detached and had to be reset.