Is it...moving day?

What's this in our driveway?!?

Well, it's kinda moving day.  We moved our stuff in, but not ourselves.  We'll probably move in this upcoming weekend.  Still it's a great step in the right direction!   The finish is in sight!


Finally a picture of the full kitchen with island

Perspective from the island into the dining room (with new lighting fixture)

Let's get a close up of that sweet lighting fixture!

Not sure if I've included a picture of our little buit in cubby area in the hallway (kitchen is visible down the hall). I can't wait to see little backpacks hanging on here!

View from the upstairs (with new light fixture that needs to be dusted badly)

And a bunch of pics of the master bath which is finally wrapping up (not sure why the closet looks yellow, it's not):

The shower (glass surround to be added this week):

Close-up of the vanity:

Even more of a close-up of my Cambria counters.  I LOVE them - it's actually impossible to get a good picture of how wonderful and sparkly they are:

Lilah enjoying the bubbles in the spa tub:

Did you notice the funny light? Somehow w/out paying for it we got the tub lighting package - funny

New front door to finish off this post!

More pictures to come as we continue to clean up, move in, and decorate!!  That's when the real fun begins, right?

Stalled!

Ugh, just when you think things are wrapping up....

Tom made the discovery last week that our fridge was awfully close to the counter top to the right of it - close enough that he was concerned we'd dent the fridge handle on the granite if we weren't careful and swung it open too quickly. Eh, we can just be careful we figured.  Well apparently late one sleepless night it popped into Tom's head that because the fridge door did not open very wide, we may not be able to open the fruit and veggie drawers.  Turns out he was right :(

So you'd think - just move the fridge over a few inches, right?  Well it's 14 inches that we needed!  And the fridge is contained in built-in cabinetry.  So we need more wall to be built, new cabinetry to be built, etc.  While I'm very peeved the cabinets weren't built correctly to begin with, since they had the specs for the fridge from day 1, I will give the builder credit that he is taking care of it.

Original plan was for the POD to arrive on Friday.  We're tryyyyyying to stick to that timeframe.  New cabinets were installed today.  So they need to be painted, along with some additional painting, before the floors can be finished for the final time.  Obviously the floors need to be 100% done before we can even consider moving in.  Fingers crossed!

Kitchen!

Since most of the rooms need furnishing before I can take more pictures, those might take a bit.  Luckily we will have electric power soon so I can take some photos of the small details.  But for now, I have some kitchen pics!  It's not 100% done since we are waiting for a hose for the stove, but otherwise it's done.

What you can't see in any of these pictures is the island, it would be against my back in the first picture below.  But since it had the stove sitting on top of it - it wasn't ready for the photo shoot yet.
Forgive the lighting, it was dusk outside and we only have some lights inside so far...

The backsplash over the stove.  We wanted something that was contemporary, not too traditional and not too modern, and of course that matched and wasn't anything crazy.  Kinda hard to see, but it's a small mosaic tile mix of glass in tans and grey/browns and stone.  You can obviously see where the missing stove needs to go...

Here is the close-up of the backsplash we took in the tile store with our granite sample...

Close-up of the sink area.  Luuuuv my farm sink.  Glad it got put in correctly on the second try!

And close-up of the faucet with the small appliance "garage' in the background.

What's left, you may ask?
- Refinish floors in downstairs bedrooms (miscommunication with the flooring guy and he didn't do them)
- Install all fans and lighting fixtures
- Install stove
- Paint front door
- May need to rip out and reinstall some tile in master bath (don't even get me going on this one)
- Acid wash floors in downstairs den bathroom
- CLEAN

I think that's it.  Estimated move time... 2 weeks?