Outlet finds

Another trip to the Outlet and another thing or two marked off our list!

We got a chair for the desk we currently own that will go in one of the guest bedrooms.

Its the Willoughby dining chair from West Elm and is exactly what I was looking for.  If the legs weren't so dark I might have thought about using them as the dining chair they are meant to be.

We also found a 15-piece set of the All-Clad Copper Core cookware at the Williams-Sonoma Outlet.  We already have three pieces of it and wanted to add more but buying them separately is so expensive.  So getting the employee discount on top of the outlet discount on top of the set discount made it a price we couldn't really pass up.  

Now I have no choice but to learn to cook....

Looks like a prison

Wouldn't you agree?  :)

The forms are completely off so now we can go inside the safe areas. 

We didn't intend to make the entire back part of the basement "safe" but it ended up that way.  We wanted a safe room so that I would have a place to go when tornado's are threatening (I say "I" because I don't expect Brad to ever step foot in it). The rest of it is all under the front porch so it just turned out that it would be safe too.  The actual safe room is on the right, the Mechanical room is in the middle, and the door on the left will be Brad's gun room.  That room was supposed to be the closet for one of the bedrooms but we made some not-so-slight changes on Wednesday so now its going to be his gun room.

I'm standing in the closet looking through the mechanical room toward the actual safe room.

Standing at the safe room door looking through the mechanical room area into Brad's gun room.  

They were filling in around the basement walls when we got there on Tuesday.

The front and side right side are now completely filled in.

Basement walls

The huge pile of rocks sitting in front of the house is gone!  And we have exterior basement walls poured, as well as the tops to the safe areas.  There is still a huge pile of dirt sitting where the kitchen will be.  I didn't get a photo of it but it should be gone by the time we go back up there.

If you notice Brad standing at the opening of the basement it makes the house look huge.  It doesn't look that big in person.  Must be the wide angle lens??

The forms are still up on the safe areas in the back (or should I say front?  The front of the house seems like the back of the basement to me!)

The area around the basement.  I am standing at the exterior corner of the king bedroom closet looking at the actual safe room in this photo.

While we waited on Paul to get there we did a little work by the creek.  Brad cut up part of an old Cedar tree and it smelled so good!