Our Home in the Making
Here's a brief timeline of what has been going on.
*Mid-November 2009- we go "show-homing" with my sister and her boyfriend to check out new homes in a new community in our city. We fall in love with "The Verve II".
*Remembrance/Veteran's Day - we had the day off work so we went back to the house. Sales team throws some numbers together. Send everything off to a broker they deal with. The ball starts rolling.
*November 29th - we sign our lives away with sales team. Everything is in place.
*Mid-December - we might with brokers and sign our lives away there.
*Early January - we chose cabinets and exterior house colours.
*End of January - excavation started.
*Mid-February - we chose interior design. Granite, tile, paint colour, railing colour, carpet colour.
*The week of February 22 - the basement walls are poured (concrete) and we have a few walls up. Framing is just beginning.
*The week of March 1 - the whole house is almost done being framed.
*March 6 - we went to a lighting center and chose all of our lighting fixtures.
*March 13 - shingles were being attached.
*May 12 - tile flooring in the middle of being installed.
*May 17 - Granite installed, and subway tile in bathrooms complete.
I have kind of lost track of dates. I hope to update a little later. I am not including every picture taken along the way because we go on a weekly basis with just minimal things changing.
*Mid-November 2009- we go "show-homing" with my sister and her boyfriend to check out new homes in a new community in our city. We fall in love with "The Verve II".
*Remembrance/Veteran's Day - we had the day off work so we went back to the house. Sales team throws some numbers together. Send everything off to a broker they deal with. The ball starts rolling.
*November 29th - we sign our lives away with sales team. Everything is in place.
*Mid-December - we might with brokers and sign our lives away there.
*Early January - we chose cabinets and exterior house colours.
*End of January - excavation started.
*Mid-February - we chose interior design. Granite, tile, paint colour, railing colour, carpet colour.
*The week of February 22 - the basement walls are poured (concrete) and we have a few walls up. Framing is just beginning.
*The week of March 1 - the whole house is almost done being framed.
*March 6 - we went to a lighting center and chose all of our lighting fixtures.
*March 13 - shingles were being attached.
*May 12 - tile flooring in the middle of being installed.
*May 17 - Granite installed, and subway tile in bathrooms complete.
I have kind of lost track of dates. I hope to update a little later. I am not including every picture taken along the way because we go on a weekly basis with just minimal things changing.
Here are a few photos that we've taken along the way!
The piece of land that we THOUGHT was our lot. Turns out we were 2 lots to the left of this one. But, we'll just pretend that this is our lot... haha.
Here it was just a hole with cement walls at the middle of February
Basic framework on the go! End of February.
Here it is! With windows and doors and everything!
Framework.
Living room.
Most of the outside complete :) Don't mind the creep in the window
Kitchen Island. Back door and powder room to the left. Broom closet on the right.
Pantry and sink.
Island from the other side. Dining nook to the left, stove, fridge. Pantry just to the right.
Another kitchen angle.
Master Bedroom w/door to ensuite.
Walk-in Closet
Kitchen w/granite (photo taken May 17)
Kitchen sink
