That Corner House: Less than 3 Weeks Til Close! Sneak Peeks!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Less than 3 Weeks Til Close! Sneak Peeks!

Oh my gosh... I was speechless walking into our house this past weekend. On Saturday we took the metro out to the 'burbs, picked up the car that my parents so graciously dropped off at a metro for us, picked up a couple Venti Starbucks drinks (Mocha Frapp Lite and a iced chai latte, lite ice) and drove out to the house. We had a tape measure in hand, knowing it was going to be a long day of measuring and looking for furniture (hence the venti coffees). Exactly 3 weeks from this past Saturday, we'll be homeowners, having spent our first night in the house! So crazy to think that. Even crazier thinking that and simultaneously looking around the apartment and realizing we do not look like we're leaving in 3 weeks... more on packing later. Let's get to the fun stuff!

We walked in from the garage, as always, and saw the cardboard coverings on the floors so we just knew they were protecting something...!! Our hardwood floors are in, and we are absolutely in love! Of course we picked up a piece of the cardboard upstairs and looked at the floors, and they're just beautiful. It's hard not to fall in love with everything Instead of starting in the kitchen today though, I wanted to give a tour from the front of the house which I've never done.

Right: Study

Left: Dining Room
That chair rail I told you about last post... Love!

Straight Ahead: Great/Living Room

Powder Room

Love how the mantel and fireplace turned out
Above the mantel is the pre-wire for the TV

Just a sneak peek of the kitchen :)

I can't wait to share more about our appliances once they're all installed. The refrigerator itself is pretty darn sweet. Now, we didn't pick out the appliances ourselves, they were part of the "Chef's Package" we opted for, which included the 6 burner stove, the hood you see in the picture, and the upgraded appliances. Say you're making dinner and you need 1 3/4 cup of water. Choose that measurement on the touch screen on the front of the fridge, and out comes 1 3/4 cup water. Do you need it warm? It can do that too. Fill up a water bottle without you telling it to? Sure. Want to display cute pictures of your dog as the screen saver? Plug in a USB and upload those pictures to the fridge. Not even kidding.

Anyways, we then went downstairs and it looks great. OH, I forgot to say that all the power was on, as you might have seen so far in some pictures with the lights on. So we got to step inside the bathrooms and see what they really looked like without using the flashlight app on my phone. And we turned on the recessed lights in the basement, too and were able to see what it was going to look like.

The whole basement will be carpeted

So you see the window well in the second picture, but none on the other side of the room in the first picture. To add one more window well was going to be $2k. And we had the option to add two of them to the other side. In hindsight, we both said out loud that we wished we had at least one more, but we decided to prioritize other things in the house instead. At least we have one, and it was going to give us that basement feel which we were expecting. It's going to be our lounge-area and movie/show-watching room (cause that's all we're going to be able to afford after all this is said and done!!!) so it's a good thing we have a good space to do that in. We have plenty of natural light upstairs too, so that really makes it all okay for us.

So this is one of the unfinished rooms that will, if we decide down the road, be a bedroom. We had the window well added in case we decided to convert it, because it wouldn't be considered a bedroom if it didn't have that window, and it would be super expensive to add after the fact. We think this is what it will look like when all the construction is said and done. If I turn to my left, there's another room just like this without the window that will be storage. In between those two rooms is a roughed-in bathroom that you've seen in a previous post. Someday we'll finish that bathroom but it's definitely not in our five year plan.

Now to take us back upstairs to the bedroom level... the biggest change from last time was probably being able to see the vanities uncovered and how all the colors are coming together; also, the shelving systems in the closet. Now, to pick which one will be mine!!