Thursday, September 27, 2012

Finally, something to talk about

We've been in the house a month now and are still living without "normal" amenities.  You can't even believe how aggravating it is to live without a kitchen sink.  But Monday we started getting our kitchen cabinets and today almost all of the others!    I hope the appliances come soon!  
Kitchen from the sunroom looking at where the refrigerator will be.

Even though its far from being finished, I already love it!  The gray turned out PERFECT!!  We used Fulbright Cabinet Shop in Mount Pleasant and they did a fantastic job.  I didn't plan on having him build the vent hood cover initially, but it was more inexpensive to go that route and now I'm happy we did.  I like the plain look of it with the shaker style cabinets we went with.

It will still be a couple of weeks before we get the countertops and even longer for the island.  But it finally resembles a kitchen so I'm happy!
The pantry.  We should get the countertops for these tomorrow.  There will be a hutch-type shelf on the left for food and open top shelves on the right.  I wanted open shelves instead of top cabinets in the kitchen but Brad said no so we compromised and are putting them in here.

The laundry room.  They're not that exciting but I'm doing open upper shelves in here too and it looks good in my head!  The countertop for this room came in broken so we'll have to wait for that as well.

Island in the master closet. I really like how this turned out.  All of the cabinets need drawer pulls/handles but this piece is kind of screaming for them!  But I think all of our clothes will fit in it just fine. There are drawers on both sides and a shoe shelf for Brad on the other side.  The closet has looked oddly large but this makes it look perfect!  There will be electrical outlets on both ends and we'll probably have to put a glass top on it for protection.  

We have had the dryer hooked up to our gas grill gas tank all month so it was exciting to get the real gas tank today. However its going to be a while before they get it hooked up to the dryer for some reason.

I've been really bored with the little progress that's been made since we've lived here.  But the brick layers are finally gone (even though they still have some steps to do) and the rock looks great.  I'll try to get a picture of that soon.  Also, you can see in the picture of the gas tank that part of the house is painted and part of it isn't.  It looks crazy right now, but we're waiting for the 30 days to pass so the painters can paint the brick.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Ready or not, here we are...

The house is so far from being finished but we moved in the basement a couple weeks ago anyway.  It is not the most ideal living situation, to say the least, but we're trying to make the best of it.  

This sign was so unexpected and brought a big smile to my face when we pulled in on moving day.  Our friend Jennifer was in MH visiting her family and was so nice to make this for us!  And then she and Tom came over for pizza a couple nights after that.  They live in Providence, RI and its been way too long since we've seen them so we really enjoyed visiting with them!  I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the next two years that they'll move here after they finish residency.
I promised Brad that I wouldn't keep the sign because I have a bad habit of giving things like this sentimental value and keeping them forever.  I took it down and told myself to toss it, but then I noticed it was the perfect size to put on the fridge in the garage.  So that's where its at for now!