A chilly week brings a finished fireplace

Our built-ins are complete and the newly finished floors look fantastic! We've had some very cold nights recently and can't wait to snuggle by the fire! 

Less than a week to go!

First dinner in the house! A family picnic on the floor in the study. We needed to stop by and check on things after a busy afternoon of swim lessons and thought it would be fun to enjoy dinner while at the house.

Our cherry top was installed on the island. Soon it will be oiled which will bring out the red cherry tones. Other recent additions to the kitchen include: appliances, stainless steel pot filler, kitchen faucet, and kitchen fan.

Yesterday the subway tile backsplash was installed.

Wainscoting in mudroom is now painted.

Kids' bathroom pedestal sinks. Next steps: backsplash and mirrors.

Master bath sinks with backsplash. Mirrors on their way!

Stairwell lights.

Winter Wonderland!

November 27, 2014
Thanksgiving day brought us 8 inches of fresh snow. The views as we drove into our neighborhood were breathtaking -- rolling snow covered fields with beautiful snowy balsam trees scattered throughout. Our neighborhood used to be a Christmas tree farm, so there are quite a few perfectly sculpted balsams that have grown tall over the years.

Big sky! 

Cedar shakes started going up on the barn.

December 1, 2014
Today the granite went into the kitchen and master bath. We love it!

Master bath granite and one of the two sinks.

An impromtu ballroom dance party in the kitchen.

We have railings and banisters!

The heaters are now in. We installed European wall hung heaters, which are very energy efficient.

The furnace went in too. The manifold is impressive, it's like grand central.

That tiny box on the wall is our furnace. All of the men who visited our house this week spent a lot of time in this part of the house enjoying all of the pipes and knobs.

Elliott chilling on the porch.

Elliott enjoying a snowy snack break.

Ollie's new hideout under the porch.

The back deck went on this week, off of the dining room. This is the view of our "bavarian forest" from the deck. We can't get enough of the beautiful snow covered trees!

Two and half weeks to go!

The crew is focused on finish work now that we are two and a half weeks away from our move-in day (Dec. 10!). It's very exciting to watch everything come together!

Our farmers sink arrived this week. We love it!

The crown moulding is going in.

The preliminary structure for the island was built. It will soon be a large cherry farmer's table.

Our mantle was installed. It's a reclaimed board from an old barn. Barn boards were also installed above the mantel; they will soon be painted white.

The kids' bath is now tiled.

Master shower tile

Banisters are starting to be installed and the treads went down on the stairs.

The outlines for wainscoting have begun. Soon much of the downstairs will have wainscoting.

The ceiling of the porch was installed.

Cedar shakes are starting to go up on the garage and shed.

The septic was installed and they've begun bringing a lot of fill into the lot to level it off with the road and bury the septic. More fill is on its way!

More Progress in Kitchen and Bathrooms

The "mail center" was added to the mudroom.  The door to the right goes to the garage. 

The space under the mail slots will be perfect for charging our devices.

Kitchen Pantry -- shelves are in.  It's good and big, we'll have to figure out how to use this space best.

We're excited for the new kitchen.  Lots of good storage!

The built-ins in the living room are in.

Laundry room floor and shelf 

Tiles and floor is in in the Kids bathroom.  We love the cork floor and glass stripe in the tub.

Starting the tile work in the master bath

The centuries old barn door arrives!  This will be on a track and will be the door for the study.
A beam from the barn and finished the same way will be the mantle over the fireplace. 

Lots of character in the barn door

Kitchen!

November 12, 2014
The kitchen cabinets have arrived! They were custom made in Yarmouth.  This week they will be measured for the granite countertops, which will arrive next week. Once the floors are sealed, they will install the island.

November 12, 2014
Our bathrooms and laundry room have cork floors, which you can see being installed here. This is a view into the laundry room from the upstairs hallway.

Flooring, siding, trim, and a digger!

November 8, 2014
The siding is starting to migrate around the house. Seeing the siding up makes our house feel more like the home that it will soon be.

November 8, 2014
The back of the house. Soon there will be a deck off of the sliding doors (dining room), where we know we will enjoy many happy meals.

November 7, 2014
We love the flooring! A view from the kitchen (to be installed this week!) to the dining room. The chair rail is starting to go up, soon wainscoting will be installed under the chair rail.

November 7, 2014
A view from the dining room to the living room. Soon wainscoting will be added to this room as well and there will be built-in bookcases on either side of the fireplace. 

November 8, 2014
A view to our dining room from the living room.

November 7, 2014
This week the benches were built in to both of our mudrooms. They have great lift-up lids and we can imagine storing all of our mittens and hats in them.

November 7, 2014
A built in bookcase which we added to a nook on the upstairs landing. Our future "children's library."

November 7, 2014
Built-ins are being built all over the house this week -- this is the beginning of the build-out in our master bedroom closet.

November 8, 2014
A digger showed up -- always an exciting sight! We think this means  that the septic will be installed soon and that the lawn grading will be finished.

November 8, 2014
Our study, which has lots of great light (you can see the light from the bank of windows that aren't visible).