Welcome to Cabinet Town

What a transformation this week! I feel like I say that every post but wow...who knew cabinets and trim could make SUCH a difference? When we met with the cabinet maker about a month ago, he took measurements and then sent us the drawings I posted a few weeks back. We never even got a sneak peak at them the whole time he was making them and then Tuesday, they just...showed up. Are you ready??

The kitchen cabinets are AMAZING. The bathrooms and utility cabinets are great too but seriously, the kitchen is perfect. It had everything we envisioned - pull outs for brooms/mops/spices/trash & recycle bins, the most beautiful vent hood, hardly any "traditional" cabinets and mostly deep drawers that fully extend. No more digging for pots and pans!! Can't.freaking.wait. 

The trim guys also got started this week putting in all the interior doors, crown molding, baseboards, closet shelves and rods, and the box beam ceiling in the office. We had planned on them doing the beams for the living room too but they are so long and heavy they needed a lot of support so the framers had to come back out and put those bad boys in but they were super fast and got that done on Friday. They still have a list of things to finish, including a window seat in the master, beadboard in the half bath, trim around the living room beams and some more crown...because they ran out since I wanted so much. :) But here's what it looks like so far with all the cabinets/trim. 

Jack/Jill bath and bedrooms

Master bedroom and bath. Cady likes the patio view already.

The master closet, because everyone needs 3 tiers of hanging racks and 3 dressers in their closet.

There has been a HUGE pile of trash out behind the patio for at least a month now because the framers and the sheetrock crew didn't put it all in the dumpster. So...we had to either pay someone to come out and clean it or get to work. So today, we spent about 5 hrs out there cleaning all that up (after Rob relocated the dumpster closer to the pile) and filled up the entire thing with just what was behind the patio. Whew. It looks SO much better now though. I think my back is going to hurt tomorrow. I also mowed for the 3rd time in my life (all 3 times were on this lot). Hopefully we'll see that in the next time lapse video. 


They weren't able to start brick last week because the last job had some rain delays but they will be starting tomorrow morning!  I know I said I'd cover paint/tile in this post, but I figured I would wait until the next post for that since they're coming this week to start on both!! That way you can see it all on the walls/floors instead of just what sherwin williams tells me it's going to look like and a couple of tiles shoved together on the floor.

Ok...maybe a sneak peak of the paint. Just a little one. Hope that holds you over another week!

WALLS. BOOM.

So, you are going to be amazed at what the house looks like now. Because it umm looks like a house, a real house. There are now walls...all over the place...it echoes. Weird. If you are planning on going to sneak a peak without us, this would be the time to do it before we get it all locked up. Just wave at the camera when you go by. :)

Thursday (4/11) after last post, they started putting up the drywall. It took them Thursday and Friday to get it all put up on the walls, most of the day Saturday to tape & bed, and then last Monday the texture crew came in to spray it all down. Pretty crazy transformations. Hopefully you can now get a feel for what it's supposed to look like. It's looked like this in my head since the beginning though.

Top Row: Living room, and view from entry
Bottom Row: Front door (temporary) and hallway from bedrooms & media

 

 

 

 

Kitchen/Living/Dining room

Top Row: Master bedroom
Bottom Row: Media room

Bedrooms & hallway to get to them

Master bathroom (bottom row is the linen closet, toilet, shower, doorway to closet)

Last Monday the brick was also delivered and Tuesday we had our garage doors installed. Whew.

We also spent both weekends scouring the metroplex in search of perfect tile. More on that in the next post, paint too...get excited.  But those drywall guys were SO fast, we weren't quite ready for anyone else to come in yet so it was pretty slow last week. Things should get moving again this week though. We've got cabinets coming tomorrow morning, starting brick/stone and measuring for granite counter tops on Wednesday, and possibly trim this week too. 

After this week...just paint, tile floors/showers, wood floors, HVAC/electrical/lighting/plumbing finish out, security system, propane, hardware, landscaping, septic system, and driveway left to go...JUST those. It's now all picked out though (thankfully), we just gotta get it in there without all the guys running into each other. Home stretch, we can do it!

New Favorite Color....GREEN.

Finally. Last week, we had a few things to fix before the inspector would pass the house for insulation. The guys came Monday/Tuesday to get the list all fixed up and the inspector came back Wednesday. The framer installed the door frames for the all the pocket doors in the house too while he was there fixing things. 

Seriously gonna love these pocket doors!

Got a green tag on plumbing (woohoo!), but another red for more framing/pre-insulation stuff. Insulation guys came back Thursday and finished sealing up around the windows like they were supposed to, and the framer back on Friday, and voila...GREEN. The glorious green tag...even though it was still conditional on a few more support posts being put up, he'd come back and check that again after insulation. Oh and Thursday they delivered all the sheet rock for the house and Friday, they even put a little bit of it up because they needed some in between the kitchen/study/garage walls and the garage ceiling so they could spray one side of it with the foam insulation.

This week, the insulation crew came out Monday and Tuesday and sprayed that sucker down. All the exterior walls, roof line, and interior between the garage and study/kitchen. Spray foam everywhere! It's pretty crazy looking. They sprayed it all in and then scraped off where it stuck out a little bit past the studs after it expanded. It does cost quite a bit more than normal insulation, but we're hoping to save more on heating/cooling bills later on down the road. Plus we'll get a tax credit next year to help offset the cost a little. It practically pays for itself, right? :)

Marshmallow walls! :) After 1st day of spray foam

So the inspector came today for his last inspection before the final walk through for certificate of occupancy, and we passed again! Another green for the collection, boom. The energy star inspector came by to check it out too and said it looked great, so we're all set for drywall! 

Anyway...this is the last time we'll be able to walk in and see through the walls, so take a look, enjoy the little tour o' foam, and prepare yourself to see REAL ACTUAL WALLS next post. 
 

Little bit of rain, but look - green outside!

 

Floor of the walk up attic storage

Kitchen appliance wall

Breakfast/Dining area

Study/Office

Media Room!

 

Master bedroom

Master closet

Master bathroom

 

 

Foam close ups...ooohh ahhh.