Ceiling

Entry way ceiling

Paint

The painters are done...the walls are painted and the woodwork and cabinets are stained. We have an artist painting our entry way ceiling right now, and the electricians are there doing their final stuff. Our hardwood floors are being finished next week. We're getting soooo close to being done!

stucco/stone

They aren't quite done yet, but the stucco/stone guys are getting close.

more finish carpentry

Below is the media room ceiling. Nick has a vision for it, and I can't wait to see what he comes up with.

My Closet

Nick is almost finished with my closet organizers. He spent way more time than I expected building me an amazing closet...and I love it! He's just getting started on the organizers for his closet.

Media Room doors/wood floors

Nick has been working so hard the past couple of weeks on the finish carpentry. Most of the trim is up, and the interior doors are hung. This is a picture of the media room doors. They're pocket doors that slide into the wall to open up the room if we want to. Nick was thankful that our brother in law Ben showed up to help hang the doors. He's been great to help out! Our wood floors are in as well. They still need to be stained, but I love them!

Progress update...finally!

I've been terrible about updating the house blog. We've been so busy! Progress on the outside of the house is moving slowly due to a lot of rain, but we're hoping to have stucco soon. The roof is done, and it looks great.

The sheetrock is hung, mud and taped, and Nick is ready to start laying tile tomorow. Our entry way is probably the coolest feature of the entire house. I love the ceiling.

A view of the family room from the kitchen.

Upstairs game room

Our front door is in, and I'm glad we decided to go with the double door.

Stay tuned...tile, wood floors, trim, paint and cabinets are all going in during the next couple of weeks. We're still hoping to be done in about 6 weeks.

The Framing is Complete!

The picture below is a view of the back of the house from 131st Street.

Setting Trusses

My dad came out and helped Nick set trusses. He was SO nice to take another day off of work to help Nick. Nick also has two guys who have been helping him the past couple of weeks, plus a really awesome guy from our church volunteered to come out and help. It definitely took all of them to get this project done.

Upstairs and Entry Way

This is a view from just inside our front door looking at the entry way. Nick had an idea to make this cool ceiling. The dome on each end is made out of half of an old satellite dish. I couldn't really understand what he wanted to do when Nick was explaining it to me, so I trusted him and let him build it. I'm glad I did because I love the way it turned out.

Last week Nick built all of the upstairs walls. The kids were super excited to see their bedrooms. They all have mini-suites upstairs with their own bedroom/bathroom/closets. This is a view looking down the hallway towards Grant and Brady's bedrooms.
This is the exercise room. Can you say indoor boot camp? Yea!

This is Drew's room.

This is the upstairs game room, and the little room you can see Nick and Brady standing in is the upstairs storage room.

More Framing...

Nick and 1 other guy have been working non-stop to frame our house. I can't believe how much they've gotten done. It's only been 2 weeks since they started framing! My dad has been so nice to take off work and help a few days, and some awesome guys from church have stopped by to help a couple of days, too. It hasn't helped that the temperatures have been over 100 degrees many of the days. Nick is wiped out by the time he gets home at night. He's been working on the framing from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every single day.

Above is a picture of our family room, and below is a picture of our kitchen.

Above is a picture of the media room, and below is our reinforced safe room.

Ok, the next picture down is my favorite...it's my closet! Nick has his own closet, so I get this one to myself. I'm SO excited.

Heading upstairs...

This next picture is our guest room, so all of you out of town folks start planning your next visit!

This is a view from the dining room looking into the walkway that goes to the kitchen.

The boys and I stop by every day (usually a couple of times a day) to check on the progress. The kids have been fascinated by the construction process. This day we happened to have some friends with us.

Here is Brady standing where his new room will be. Check out the view of our backyard from the 2nd floor.

We had fun watching Nick be carried around by this forklift.

It's starting to look like a house...

The outside walls on the bottom floor are done, and it's starting to look like a house!

This is our reinforced safe room. You can't be too careful in the middle of tornado alley. It's also going to double as a storage room.

Yikes!

We stopped by one day to bring Nick lunch, and he happened to be doing some work with the track hoe. Grant asked if he could drive, and to Grant's surprise (and mine) Nick said sure. He put him up there, told him how to work everything, and turned him loose on the back of our lot. Grant had a great time digging up our back yard.

We have a foundation!

We've had lots of progress this week. We now have underground plumbing...

and a foundation!!! Framing starts tomorow!