Photo overload and catch up

A lot has been happening the last couple of weeks......

This is the marble shower base for the master shower.  It looks way to big to fit into the spot, but I'm guessing their measurements were correct.

And this one is for the shower in the basement.

Trim boards for the windows, cut and ready to be put together.

Finished window casing for the laundry room window.  It's interesting to see how big they look when they're just laying on the floor.  The window in that room doesn't seem all that big but it looks huge like this.

Several window casings stacked up in the kitchen.

Sunroom window with the casing in place.  We love the simple style.

***I'm not liking these beige walls at all.  I'm pretty sure we're going to have to paint them a different color.  I think they're the reason I was having trouble with the gray in the master bedroom and study.

Master bedroom.

The doors in the basement.  We love them too!

Same doors from the outside.

It rained really hard while we were there again.  The creek was way up afterwards.

View of the house from the creek.

They painted the interior side of the front door.

And put a coat of stain on the exterior side.  I think they said it would probably take at least five applications to get it as dark as we want it.

Bead board/tongue and groove for living room and porch ceilings.  I LOVE bead board but it just isn't the right look for this house so we'll use the smooth side.  Kind of sad to hide that bead board....

They got the ceiling in the great room put up.  They stained each board with a pecan stain and then painted a light coat of Oyster over it.   We really like it!  But it didn't help me like that beige any more.  In fact, I'm starting to hate it....

For the porches, they mixed these two colors to get the right shade of stain.

We like the color it turned out. 

The cement siding arrived.

And they started putting it on last week.

It looks good but I can't wait to see it painted.

They also got a couple dormers trimmed.

I discovered these two bricks on the front porch.  I wonder if they're what we're going to use.  Our bricks will be painted so it doesn't matter what the bricks they use look like.  They just need to be paintable.  The painter told us that he'll have to wait around 30 days once the brick is laid before he can paint.  And the brick hasn't even arrived yet.

Mudroom bench

I've been trying to figure out what to do in the mudroom for a while now.  At one time I liked the cubbies that you see in a lot of mudrooms but then I saw too many of those and decided against that. 

Something a little less cluttered than the image below is what I have in my head.

We found the bench below at the Pottery Barn Outlet and I think it will be the perfect piece to work around.  

It's the Terra Bench from West Elm and the one we got is longer than the one pictured (ours is 72").  I didn't know there was a cushion available to go with it but I grabbed one at the store that was marked $35 and am going to try to make a slipcover for it.  It's about 3 inches too long but real thin so I think it's going to work just fine.  And the one that's pictured with it is $100.

It reminds me of a very modern church pew! I like the straight lines, but I may paint it.  We didn't pay a lot for it so it won't bother me to do a little work to it!

Rainbow

Last week while we were at Coppercreek, we got a ton of rain in a short period.  

Afterwards we had a tiny hint of a rainbow!  

Paint

They have everything painted except the main room in the basement.  

I LOVE this color!  Both guest bedrooms are painted this color as well as the main room in the basement.  Its so dark and rich and warm and all things I want in a paint color!  Brad really liked it too.  

***The first guest that calls it a cave will never be invited back.

I knew I wouldn't really like this color.  Boring beige.  But I want neutral and I want a lot of gray accents in the main rooms plus gray cabinets so I had to pick a color other than gray for the walls.  

This cooler gray is in the study and our bedroom.  I'm not sure about it but I'm not loving it.   It looks blue in this picture.

This is the same color but in the bedroom.  It doesn't look as blue here, but it does from certain angles.  I'm thinking incandescent lighting will soften the blue some, but I"m not sure I want to wait to find out. 

We may be back to the drawing board on the grays upstairs......

Exterior doors, soffit, and texture.

They put a couple exterior doors in this week.  All of the doors in the back look like this one....

This one is between the mudroom and breezeway.  Notice, no room for a pet door....poor Spatz.  Brad said absolutely not!

The giant chimney is not visible from the front so it took us a couple days to notice it.

They put the texture on the walls also.  We wanted a very light orange peel and that's exactly what we got.  We like it.

They're still working on the soffit which is so boring to me.  I'm ready for them to be finished with that and move on to something a little more exciting.

I like the almost-white trim.

We heard from Brandon late this week that there is paint on the walls!  We can't wait to see that!

Guests

Karey and Jerry were in Mountain Home Saturday and came out to Coppercreek to check it out.

They participated in a two-day ride that circled the state and knew months ago that the group would be spending the night in Mountain Home.  So I've been looking forward to them getting to meet us at the house since I found out about it.

I certainly hope its not their last time at Coppercreek!!!  Especially since I've already got a long weekend trip planned for us including, but not limited to, their boat and our guest room.

And I hope Karey wasn't reminded of Mountain View while she was here.....  :)

Interior paint colors

Lauren and I went from this......

.....to this....

...in just a couple hours! 

Paint colors have been selected and I will not waste another moment thinking about, or second guessing, our choices.