ALL THE THINGS! (Part 1)

So yeah, it's been 2 weeks now, oops! Don't worry, things are happening, lots and lots of great things! We've just been super busy, so I broke this up into 2 posts because there's just too much! This post: Granite - check. Paint - check. Tile floors - check. Exterior final paint - check. Let me just catch you up on the how's and when this all went down. (Or just scroll and check out the awesome pics.)

The granite guys came first thing Monday after the last post (5/13) and were there until after 7 working on squeezing in the kitchen apron sink to fit just right. They installed all the other sinks too and did such a fantastic job, with just a little setback. When they came to make the templates/take measurements, the cabinets had JUST been installed and the little decorative pieces on the pull out spice racks weren't on yet. So when they brought the pieces that go next to the range top, it didn't fit over those. Ooops. No worries though, they were back on Thursday with new pieces cut perfectly for them and it's all great now!

Giallo Ornamental granite - looks great on both the dark and white cabinets in the master bath, closet and utility room.

Kitchen island and Jack/Jill bath

The painters also finished up painting all the rooms (except the office). If you know me and my decision making skills (or lack of), these tile/paint decision making weeks have been a nightmare. Pinterest/Houzz narrowed it down quite a bit...still wondering how people built houses before those sites, and internet in general...but anyway, our painter uses Sherwin Williams paint so we just started searching, and searching, and pinning, and searching. Pretty sure I ended up with 50 paint chips, and finally settled on a few we liked enough to buy the small samples cans. 

Few = umm...10. But 2 of them were blues that we were looking at for the Jack/Jill bath and master closet. One of them was a darker gray that's in the utility, master bedroom and half bath. And the other 7 were "main area" beige colors. Yes, that's right. 7 beiges. So we put them all up on the walls and compared them with the tile color and the dark stain we picked for the cabinets. Also, I have to thank Mrs. Cole for convincing me we needed to do a few areas with a darker color on the ceilings because her house looks fantastic with it! All of the trim is extra white, except the stain grade trim in the office. Super fancy. Also, to remind you what the floor plan looks like too - here's all the paints and their rooms. 

Loggia and Sandbar look close to the same color here but Sandbar is in the Jack/Jill rooms and hallway, Loggia is everywhere else. Rob still needs to decide on the office color too, but we're leaning towards a gray color.

I posted the Jack/Jill bedrooms and bathroom and media room last week. So...ta da, here's what the rest of the paint looks like in the other rooms!

Master bedroom & bathroom

Silver Sage in the Master Closet - perfect.

They also finished the final coat of exterior paint, including garage doors and stained all the cedar and under the patio ceiling. 

Once the painters were done, it was time for tile! For the Jack and Jill bath, we found a really pretty (and great priced) tile at Seconds and Surplus a few weeks ago so we snagged that up. It looks awesome with the white cabinets, granite and paint color...couldn't be happier about this bathroom!

The kitchen tile stumped us. Nothing really called out to us except some travertine we saw with rough edges in varying sizes laid in a pattern, BUT it was so far out of budget it just wasn't going to happen. The rough edges and pattern make the installation price go up quite a bit, so we set out in search of some tile we liked just as much. Everything we looked at just didn't compare to the travertine, so we settled on a single size 18x18 travertine without rough edges so that the installation price would be the same and the material price would be just a little bit more than what we had budgeted. The tile is still really pretty and and there are so many other focal points in this space (have I mentioned the amazing cabinets??), that I don't think we are losing much by taking out the pattern and rough edges. 

We'll get to the master bath tile fun in the next post...and TONS more updates to come. Really good stuff. Check back in a bit for Part 2...maybe tomorrow. We'll see. It takes a while to get through the hundreds of pictures I take each week, but I love having it all documented. :)

Remember that last panorama shot??

And now this! Woohoo!