Building our Dreams: Two weeks left!

Well, it has been a long road from when we started this project almost five months ago. It has been an awesome experience to take the things that I pictured in my mind and have them built in front of me. This project has been quite the learning experience for me, should I ever decide to build again. I have truly enjoyed every step along the way and we are more excited then ever to have the home completed so that we may move in and enjoy it!

Thank you for sharing in this excitement with us and taking the time to look at this blog as updates were made. I have had a great time managing this blog and it has turned out to be a great way for me to involve friends and family that are out of town and not able to see our home as it is built.

Please take one last look at the final build update photos of our home. The next round of photos will be of the completed project. We are shooting for a completion date in mid-Janruary. Enjoy!

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The only thing left on the exterior to do is the trim around the hardi and the columns on the porch still have to be painted to match the white soffet trim and the shutters for the windows still need to be installed. The sprinkler system is in place and ready for the final lot grade and sod.

I didn't like the exterior lights that were provided with the home so I picked out these lights from Lowes and had the electricians install them instead. I really like the way they look on the house.

Front doors with their final stain coat


View from inside the home

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This photo was actually taken the day before they stained the front door but I like it because it shows some of the different colors in the house.

I took this to show the detail that is in the columns and the crown in the dining. I am very please with the way this all turned out.

Looking out the dining room window


View with the chandelier installed

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Last Wednesday, the flooring guys went to work on our hardwood floors. This is by far one of my favorite features of our home. Luckily, they took great care to ensure that the floors were not damaged during the final weeks of our build and they covered all the wood with brown paper to prevent scratching. It will be like opening a giant Christmas gift when we are ready to move in

In the office.


Hardwood floors with foyer lighting

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The granite countertops were installed on the same day as the hardwood flooring. I absolutely love the way these tops look with our cabinets. We chose different granite for the three bathrooms.

Here you can see the hardwood (covered up with the paper) in the kitchen and the countertops. I had the doorway widened which I am happy with now

This is a view of the master bath countertops. It is difficult to see from this photo but it is a different color of granite than the kitchen counters.