From the Ground Up

Friday, March 21, 2014

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Powder Bath!! :)

I feel like I've been dragging y'all along on this house stuff, and here we are still not moved in. Thanks for tagging along!

This house building is an ORDEAL! But, at least we are doing it, and won't ever have to do it again, Lord willing. What's even worse is the MOVING part. I am just tired of packing boxes and taping boxes and digging in dumpsters for boxes. And sorting, bagging up trash, burning endless bags of trash!

Anyways, we are moving out of our house tomorrow, and the plan for today is (it's changed everyday this week) to move into our new house, but ONLY on the kids side. Circumstances have it that we need to get out of this house, so we will set up the kids rooms, and basically just sleep there, and hang out at the parentals for a while.

Here's the problems:

1. Finally the door for master bath came --> they stained it the wrong color.

2. Ordered wrong tile to finish the master tub, so we have to wait another week for that to come in and get done.

3. the painters have arrived, but they are really useless. I don't mean to be mean, and I've been really pleased with all the other sub-contractors, but not this painting company. It took them 2 months to paint and stain our house. They are finally back to do the baseboards, touch ups, and paint the dining room, and all the outside painting. And they only bring 2 guys EVERYDAY. I don't know if they don't have a crew or what. And they leave at 4 EVERYDAY. I don't expect them to work til 8 or 9 at night, although some crews did if they were behind. But, they could at least stay until 5; that would be considered a normal work day for everybody else, and during busy seasons, you might have to stay until 6!

So, I just have a really bad feeling the painting is going to take a month to finish the inside, and then 2 more weeks for the outside. I don't know if that's true, but I'm just preparing myself.....

Feeling frustrated with these guys. :(

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Wallpaper!!

Wallpaper is done in the powder bath!! And I love it!! Although I have a feeling this will be the first thing I want changed! :)

Concrete poured for sidewalks and driveways!!

Thursday, March 6, 2014

More Progress

A month ago I made a list of "things left to do." There were 15 things; it feels good to mark off 6 of them!

Hardware is on the cabinets!

A Doorbell!

And a front door!

Glass top Desk

Mirrors are put in, in all the bathrooms!

Master bathroom floor grouted, but they have not re-tiled the bathtub surround.

Trim kit put on refrigerator/freezer! This better hold all the food we need!

9 Things to Go!

Shutters installed.

Paint the garage.

Tile the Tub Surround and Vent-a-hood.

Paint the baseboards, and touch ups.

Paint the trim outside, and stain the decking.

Lay Wallpaper in Powder Bathroom.

Do landscaping.

Pour concrete for sidewalks.

Finish wood floor/carpet floors.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Gas!

Our propane tank was put in a couple weeks ago, and as of yesterday, they hooked up the gas under the cooktop! Maybe we'll be cooking pancakes, as Jaxon says, before we know it!

The wood is coming along as well; master bedroom left to do, and the carpet will be put in tomorrow, in the kids rooms.

The lights in the kitchen are so big, sometimes I don't like them, but then sometimes I just don't even notice them!

And a setback. The tub that was tiled all the way around already. When they went to put the tub in it didn't fit! So the ripped out all the tile and frame work, and have re-built it. So now it is ready for tile work again!

Monday, February 24, 2014

Tile and Wood

Tile has been working hard this past week. YAY! We have tile in the kitchen, hallway, laundry room, powder bathroom, and craft room. They are nearly done with the floor everywhere. They also started and finished the backsplash!

And as of this morning they were grouting the backsplash and the floor that they had done!

Starting to really look like a kitchen!

They also did the white subway tile backsplash in the laundry room!

The wood guys actually came and started a couple days.

And the master bath....... Still working in that pesky shower! And finally starting on the tub deck and walls. Still no tile on the floor in the master bath!

Small steps!

Monday, February 17, 2014

Accepting the Facts

Gosh, it's hard accepting the facts that the move in date keeps getting pushed farther back. I mean there is no "move in date" per say, but when no one cracks the door of the house for 6 days, working days, it's not likely you are going to move in soon. I just don't understand the building process. One thing I do know is it is full of lies.

So, this weekend, we had to accept the cold, hard facts, again, that it is just not even possible that we will be in the first of March. With that being said, it causes some problems with us needing to go ahead and move out, so Jason's brother can move in. Where do we go? How long will we actually have to be there until it's done? This means we have to move our stuff TWICE.

Luckily, things are going to work out for us to stay in our house one more month. That's what it's been for a while now, just one more month.

The good thing is the kids don't have a clue of all this stress, and are just happy go lucky with everything. Which reminds me, I just need to let it go.

Both kids bathrooms showers and floors completely done and GROUTED! For some reason, adding the grout makes it just look so much prettier!!

Ready for toilets!! :) And the base boards still need to be painted.

The lady glazing all the cabinets is pretty much done. She finished in the laundry room, and just has to come back to touch up. It looks so good. I'm telling you, the laundry room is going to be fancy, smancy with a chandelier and everything!

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Tile Progress & More

Jaxon's Bathroom and the girls bathroom tile floor and showers are all done! Everything is glued down; now, they just need to grout it!

The master shower and bathroom is quite the hold up. Why? I don't even know. Seriously, hardly any progress to report after a week. :(

The playroom is striped!! I love it! And a ceiling fan!! Yay!

But, other progress was made. The security system and air conditioners units were put in!!

What's left?

1. Finish tiling master bathroom, and kitchen floors.

2. Wood floors and carpet floors.

3. Paint the trim outside, and stain the decking outside.

4. pour concrete sidewalks/driveway outside.

5. Install the propane tank.

6. Rock the Vent-a-Hood in the kitchen.

7. Paint the baseboards, and touch-ups inside.

8. Paint the garage.

9. Glaze the Laundry Room cabinets.

10. Put Hardware on.

11. Install appliances.

12. Finish hanging lighting fixtures.

13. Measure and install mirrors for bathrooms.

14. Lay wallpaper in powder bathroom.

15. Do some landscaping.

Can it be done in 3 weeks? :)