i’m back! house progress

Okay, it’s been awhile. And it’s time for some major catchup. Like the fact that our house is almost done. It’s been super crazy, super exciting, and yes, super stressful. Things have been moving lighting fast, which means decisions have to be made lighting fast. Here’s a quick snapshot of where we are.

Kitchen:

• We’ve decided on an Ikea kitchen, it’s layout and everything that goes inside it – we bought it all on Tuesday and trucked it home.
• Kitchen tile (we decided to do a wood-looking tile and heated floors)
• Style of backsplash (my favorite, subway tile)

Bathroom:
• Bathroom floor tile (white hexagon, how I love thy)
• Shower tile (subway tile, yet again)House Walls:
If any of you are thinking about drywalling, I hope you have a lot of time and patience because while it’s not extraordinarily hard, it takes forever. I’m so thankful we don’t have a huge house. We ended up hanging all our drywall and doing the first and second coats of mud. Our wonderful contractor then came in (fixed what we messed up) and did a beautiful third coat. We’re so happy that we won’t have to texture the walls. Check out my vine of Billy taping our entryway.

Windows:

The basement and bedrooms got all new double paned windows! The basement windows were quite the headache to install (we had to deal with fitting them to concrete) but the bedrooms it was a breeze.

Stairwell:

I’ve convinced Billy that a pantry is needed. We live in a small house and storage will become increasingly needed. This however might have to wait until after we move in.Today:
Right now I’m contemplating paint colors and light fixtures. Our budget is near depleted so I’ve been hunting in second hand building supply and thrift stores in the hopes I’ll score big!

I plan to blog more soon. And can’t wait to share pictures with everyone!