Cabinets!!

My cabinets started going in today! I'm not sure how many days it will take them to finish, but the granite counters are supposed to be templated a week from today and then installed 2 weeks after that. These are the cabinets near the refrigerator. The angled cabinet on the right has 4 doors - all of them are hinged on the right. I want to see if they'll change it so the 2 on the left are hinged on the left and the 2 on the right are hinged on the right. The cabinet over the refrigerator is pulled out from the wall so that it will be flush with the front of the refrigerator and easier to access. There are 4 roll-out shelves in the bottom of the left cabinet. The sink wall (L-->R) corner cupboard, 3 drawer unit which will be for our everyday dishes, dishwasher opening, super susan unit, narrow tray cabinet, sink, 2 pull-out trash cabinets (one for trash, one for recyclables).

End cabinet and 3 drawer unit...
The beverage center area - these don't seem to be placed where they should be yet.
The family room floor is done and the office floor was also finished.
The bamboo flooring for my sewing studio, laundry room, and 2nd floor hallway is ready to be installed...isn't it gorgeous?
The KD also designed our master bathroom and his tile guy is on another job. He will show up next Monday to start the installation of our tile.

I think it's time to start packing up so more of this house so we'll be ready to move in a few weeks!

We LOVE the floors!

The tile floors are done and most of the Brazilian Teak was down, except for DH's office and some closet space in the great room. The floors are gorgeous! They still need to be sanded and sealed and then they will really be awesome! This is the family room, taken from the kitchen...
Here is the flooring next to the family room fireplace - I love the way they look together! The builder is running dehumidifiers in the areas where the wood floors are - that's the white machine in this photo...
Here is the family room, taken from the great room. The great room floors are also Brazilian teak, although the direction that the wood is laid changes between the 2 rooms.
This photo shows where the entry tile meets the great room teak. They are doing a nice job with the seams where the different materials meet...
Here is another seam - this one is between the tile in the hall near the stairs and the family room near the fireplace. The tiles have a lot of grout residue on them so the true color isn't really showing in the photos...
I walked around outside and down to the ponds. A flock of geese flew over...
We have yellow iris growing near the larger pond. There were 4 or 5 clumps of them...
I haven't posted photos of every side of the house in a while, so here they are...
The front...

The patio side, taken from the end of the garage...
The patio side...
The back of the house...
The office and guest room end of the house...
It was a gorgeous day out at the house today and it was fun to think that we might be living out there about 8 weeks from now! It's starting to seem like a real possibility now that the floors are in and the kitchen will be going in next week. I'm dying to see the kitchen go in - I'll be really antsy the next couple of days until we can get out there and see what it looks like!

And the changes just keep on a-coming!

There were quite a few changes at the house when we drove out there tonight.
The garage doors have arrived...
and the stone (El Dorado Meseta Fieldledge) is going up on the chimney...
and on the fireplace...(there will be verde butterfly granite over the black fireplace box that is still showing)
The tile has been laid in the guest bathroom (still needs to be grouted)...
The wiring is on our master bathroom floor, which will heat the tile...

The tile is also down in the kids' bathroom (also yet to be grouted)...
Stone is going up on the pillars that will support the covered patio area off the back of the garage. There will be wood pillars on top of these stone bases...
Here is a photo of the brick on the back of the house that is now finished (I remembered to take my boots with me tonight!)...
And DH used the tractor to pick up some broken concrete blocks to use to keep the tractor attachments off the ground to help prevent rust. I didn't get to drive the tractor because I injured my back at Boot Camp yesterday morning. I figured there isn't any hurry - I'll probably be driving it more than I want to once we get ready to attack the brush on the property!
The painting never got finished before the tile was started. It seems like it would have been a lot easier to paint without the need to provide protection for the floors.

Thursday doesn't look good for the kitchen cabinets to go in. The kitchen tile is there, but there were only 4 tiles laying on the kitchen floor. Even if they get the kitchen tile down tomorrow, they have to let the tiles set and then grout them. My guess is the kitchen won't be installed until next week.

The Brazilian teak for the family room, great room, and office is in the house so it can acclimate to the temperature and humidity conditions in the house. No sign of the bamboo flooring for my sewing studio, 2nd floor hall, and laundry room though.

I think we'll need to start going out to the house more often now, as the projects being done now make a really big difference in how the house looks. It's really amazing how fast everything is coming together now!

Let's go Pens!!!