Cabinets are in and floors are stained

Master bedroom wardrobes waiting to be installed and master bath vanity

Master shower

Master bath floor

Kitchen cabinets - view from dining room

Mudroom wardrobe with the custom piece to cover the support post (the black door is chalkboard paint) An orange door will cover the post.

Overall, we LOVE the floor color and the cabinets really stand out in the house. Its taking shape....just in time since the parade starts on Sept 6th.

Many thanks to Chris from City View Hardwood and Rich and Lori at Alpine Woodworking for their excellent work!

Floor sanding...and tile

CityView Hardwood sanding the floors

Preparing the floors by slathering on wood putty to seal all the open areas

Our master bath supplies arrive today. Dennis - the tile guy- had to pick up some extra shelf inserts as we all forgot about the shelf in the master shower.

Next week will bring huge changes! Cabinets will be installed by Tuesday or Wednesday, the floor will be stained and finish work should mostly completed. Can't wait to see the cabinets but am also really nervous...hopefully the colors will turn out. That's my worst fear...

Landscaping plan

In order to get the most out of our small yard, Jason and I interviewed a few different landscape designers, all having more of a modern esthtetic. We settled on Phillips Garden design Tyler Grissman - a fellow northeaster - who seems to really get what we are trying to accomplish. Of course we weren't influenced at all by their incredible office space complete with a Wee House addition and custom metal staircase!

Since the Parade of Homes is rapidly approaching , we met today to discuss the front sidewalk which has to be poured with the next few weeks. Tyler's idea was excellent...it gives us some space to hang out in the front and an offset sidewalk to the house. The rest of the plan isn't complete yet, but its off to a fantastic start. Hopefully we won't have to make too many compromises on the front concrete plan due to budget constraints or can make it work with a "modular" concept of completion.

http://www.phillipsgarden.com/

Progress...

Not much has changed on the exterior but most of the siding is complete as well as the roofs

Mike, the siding guy, created a "dog house" to cover the electrical box that sticks out on the side of the house.

Here is the "dog house" with some possible exterior siding colors. I love all of them but Jason is not favoring the brown stripe in the middle. The green at the bottom works well with the brown....but the house next door is a golden yellow and i want something totally different than the immediate neighbors. So we decided to use the blue (ICI Skywatch) as the accent and a medium gray (ICI Icon Gray) for the rest of the house.

Floor is finished

The installers finished laying the white oak hardwood yesterday. It turned out beautifully! The dark color stain will come this weekend I believe. At least get one coat on this weekend they are hoping. We were set back by the cabinets not getting installed until next week so they wanted to get started on the floor now.