Enough about all that mumbo jumbo and on to the progress of the homestead. The siding is completely finished, and the house and garage are painted. Thank you Jose and Elias, because it was truly a two man show. Actually, Jose, Elias, and Simon have been the work-horses of the homebuilding endeavor. The three of them have recently completed and painted our interior trim and great room ceiling, assembled our fireplace, built the bases of our front porch pillars, and completed every other odd-and-in job necessary. They are now in the process of painting the interior of the house for the final time.
The great room ceiling.
Our fireplace is finished (although in the following picture it is still in process)! And it looks amazing! The rock guys have just a bit more to do outside before they bid adios to our house for good - like the front porch pillars and some rockwork on the back of the house.
Our fireplace!
Blue-eyed Keith and his dudes have reappeared to construct our deck, back door stoop, and the lean-to on the garage for Noel's lawnmower that currently is non-existent. This, of course, took them about a day and a half. We ran into them at the house last week after they completed the majority of the deck and happened to interrupt there break (aka beer time). Why didn't I opt to be a carpenter?! Build a deck, drink some beer. Build a stoop, drink some beer. Build a lean-to, (you got it) drink some beer. The deck and stoop will be complete once Jose (man of all trades) strings the wire for the railing. Our inspiration for this look, the HGTV Dream Home in Stowe, Vermont, of course.
The back deck (which now has steps on either side). All we need is some grass.
We got a quote on granite from another company out of Nashville. Indy uses this company in his homes. We received a better price from this company versus Aritisans Granite in Murfreesboro. So it's a no-brainer that we are going to use the Nashville-based company. I met with the the company's contact; Steve is his name, a little over a week ago at OHM (the granite wholesale company where Noel and I picked out granite in January). It's a good thing that this powwow occurred because it turns out one of the samples I had that was supposedly Sienna Bordeaux (the granite we picked out for the perimeter of the kitchen) looked not at all like the actual Sienna Bordeaux slab. Ooops! (Who knows what sample we have.) It's amazing how your memory can fail you. Nevertheless, Sienna Bordeaux is what we're sticking with, but instead of just using it on the perimeter of the kitchen, we are going to use it for the perimeter and the island. Crisis averted. On Friday, Noel met with the template guy who sketched out and measured the granite. Maybe just maybe we'll have granite in a week or two.
Stroop's (the geothermal company) is finally finished with their work, and Indy (Jose actually) sprayed the foam insulation in the subfloor under the house. This is important because once the interior of the house is painted. We'll fire up that geothermal unit to get a constant temperature in the house to lay the bamboo flooring.
On Friday, Noel was at the homestead to receive the delivery of our refrigerator, cooktop, and double-oven from Home Depot. Pretty sure the delivery boys were sweatin' it driving up our driveway. Noel got a good chuckle out of it. Then, Noel and Dad headed to Lowe's to pick up our dishwasher, so we've got all of our appliances now.
All of this rain has, of course, washed our driveway. Noel and Indy discussed placing a couple more culverts in the driveway. Indy wanted the driveway to wash before placing any culverts in order to see where they needed to be placed.
As you can see, we are in the process of tying up loose ends. We still have to choose lighting and plumbing fixtures and carpet. We should be nearing the end. However, there is still the money issue lingering out there. Noel is meeting with Indy on Monday to see how much more money we are going to need to finish this thing, because like the majority of people who build, we are over budget. Then, he is meeting with Lou on Tuesday to discuss the banking side of things. Poor Noel his 6-day vacation has been consumed by the house. (He did get a break on this warm, sunny Saturday to paddle, so there was some semblance of a vacay amongst all the business.)
Noel survived Clear Creek after two swims and an Eskimo roll!
Our periodic home inspector.
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