Siding almost done

About 80% of the siding is completed!Imagine this with a poured cement front porch with white beams and railings.

Inside, the flooring installers have installed the vinyl flooring in the 2 bathrooms and are working on prepping the kitchen/dining/laundry/foyer floors for more vinyl early next week. Once the floors are done, the cabinets will be installed. They have all been delivered already.

We're getting close! I've purchased window treatments for the essential windows for now. I've also got the stools for the island and all the appliances.

We can't wait to get all our own stuff out of storage. It's now been nearly 5 months since we've slept in our own beds, sat on our own couch or eaten on our own dishes and we miss it all! Hopefully it won't be too much longer!

Fireplace Mantle help!

We are trying to choose a mantle style for this fireplace. We are in a country setting, but our deocrating taste is more classic than country. Here are some of the ones we're considering:

#2 is a quarter-cut log. I couldn't get it bigger. Try using the 100% zoom button in the bottom right corner of the screen, mom to see if you can get a better view.

Stone is complete!

The giant stack of trim. Much of this is now sitting in the house on scaffolding after having been painted.

Front view. Will be better when the mounds of dirt are gone!

Fireplace and painted walls. Glare from the windows. Still needs a mantel.

Front of the house-stone on master bedroom.

That wasn't paint!

They used a tinted primer! Here are the actual paint colors. We like the color in the living room (it's the same as the hall and bedrooms), but that kitchen/bath yellow is awfully bright! I picked it, so I guess I'll live with it for awhile. It might look better once the cabinets are in. The photo below shows the master bath. The cabinets in there will be very dark, so the yellow might look great, who knows? I can always re-paint later!

I talked to the masons today. They were just finishing up for the day when I arrived. They had grouted all the stone on the front of the house today and will finish the fireplace tomorrow. I don't have exterior photos yet because the area is tented with a heater blowing in there until tomorrow.

I wish someone would come back and work on the siding. It's not been touched in 2 weeks! (It's not a sub--our actual builder's crew is doing the siding.) So, siding's still about 25% done.

Stone! Paint!

Above: Painted living room wall opposite the fireplace.
Below: Fireplace stone prior to paint

We have rooms!!!

The drywall is all up! Every bit! We have rooms! We visited our house after work today to find all the drywall is hung! The builder's crew was there working on siding. The back of the house was almost done when we left.

From entry looking into kitchen.

From kitchen: On left is laundry, right is dining area. Looking into foyer and living room.

Master bedroom.

Living room and half wall to basement.

Back of the house!

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From the entry . . . the dining area and kitchen.

Tray ceiling in master bedroom.

Siding going on the back of the house!!!!!!!

The stone for the front of the house and the fireplace came in today!! Siding started going up today!!! Ceilings got drywalled over the weekend!

(I'm out of clever title ideas. Let me know if you've got one--I'll use it!)