We have a house!

Well, at least it's starting to look like a house.  The house was "dried-in" by December 22, and we stopped by on Dec 23 to have a look.  Most of the interior framing is also complete, and you can start to see how everything is going to lay out.  We did find a few glitches, which should be easily remedied - two barrel niches that were supposed to be arches, a pair of windows not aligned to one another, and the sill between the walk-in shower and garden bath tub in the master framed too low.

 The room with the bay window will be David's study. You can see the mis-aligned windows on the right on the front porch- the bottoms are framed about 6 inches different from each other.

 The back porch off the Great Room and Master Bedroom.  The patio will be under that pile of rubble, and the pool just beyond that.

 Mackenzie on the porch outside of  Ginny's office.  This is at the very back of the house, around the corner from the main back porch and patio.

 The Great Room corner fireplace.  That square-shaped niche on the right is one of the spaces that should have been framed as an arch.  The ceiling will have a two-step "pop-up" - you can see the framing for this at the top of the picture.

 The Kitchen....well at least the framing for the counter which will have the sink and dishwasher and face into the Great Room.  The cabinets with the oven and range will be on the wall to the left in this picture, and the refrigerator will be on the wall you see on the right. The Pantry is in the center back of the room, around the corner behind the refrigerator wall. I love this floor plan, as it has the Kitchen at the very heart of the home.

The Master Bedroom - view to the back porch (will have french doors).  You can see that same pile of rubble that marks where the patio will be.  The ceiling will have a curved pop-up.

We also had some floor stains to review, but we didn't like any of the test swatches, so it's back to the drawing, or should I say "staining", board on that.

This week:  finalizing all the design details, including picking out the granite slab for the kitchen counters and designing the tile work for the kitchen and master bath.