Moving Right Along

We are down to just a few bricks left to lay on the side wall and the back porch.  The brick should be finished by Monday afternoon and the brick guys will soon be starting the stacked stone on the fireplace!  All that is left to do on the exterior is to add the shutters and finish painting.  We are so happy with how everything is coming together.  The brick is so gorgeous and pictures just don’t do it justice!

A mortar will lighten up a good bit after it dries a few days!  Love our Savannah Ivory Mortar we went with!

The making of our porch steps….

The drywall is up and ready for the tape and mud process to give us our finished walls and ceilings.   This will take a good week given good weather to finish.  It’s amazing how much the drywall has opened and lightened everything up.  Now you can really walk through and see the layout of the rooms.  Everyone has told me the sizes of the rooms will change back and forth with each step.  I am thrilled to see some action on the interior, and can’t wait to see it all come together.

We put up our lovely mailbox yesterday! It has joined the rest of the family on the post!

Wednesday I will have the luxury of going to Triton Stone in Loxley to pick out our granite.  Triton is the source where Island Granite has their slabs sent over from.  They have a huge selection, and I’ll be able to pick out our actual slab.  Hopefully I can stay on track and on budget 🙂 I will also be finalizing our bathroom tile this week and feel pretty certain we have paint colors picked out!

Can Hardie Wait: Board and Batten

  

The back porch is looking great! We plan on spending a lot of time back here! This is probably Don’s favorite part of the whole house.  He can’t wait to mount a TV and make this a place to fry some fish and grill on the egg! I can’t wait to entertain and have good friends and company over!

The Dormer is finally up!  This has been the missing piece to the puzzle!  I wasn’t too sure at the first stage, but it totally completes the house! I just love my little window up there!

Zac asked me if I wanted to see a sample of our exterior paint colors before they got started.  Even though we’ve seen these on our inspiration house, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to see them again! It didn’t take long to assure me we made the right choice.  The Gettysburg Gray is a perfect blend of Gray with a hint of green undertone.  The creamy white trim color looks so clean and crisp.  It will tie in nicely with our Savannah Ivory mortar on the brick.

It didn’t take long the start priming and painting! Now everything is really coming to life.  I love the board and batten and we can’t wait to see the rustic brick finish off the exterior!

Our electrician has been a busy bee! He and his son have managed to wire the entire house in just a few days!

We also got our duct work up for the AC this week!

Brick & Mortar was delivered! They will start laying next week after the AC guys finish up!

Super excited about my soaking tub!  My best friend just recently built a house with the same tub and she loves hers! I can’t wait to relax after all of this!

I went home to my hometown of Laurel, Mississippi a couple of weeks ago for a friend’s baby shower.  It was a quick trip, but I managed to get in a little time with my Mama!  We have the best time together and could literally sit and talk for hours. We even pulled out all of my wedding gifts and things she has put away over the years for our house. While we were going through all of the fun stuff and getting ideas of what to put where, she said I know what you need to do before they finish the house.  She told me when they built their house, they put scriptures in the studs before they came in with Sheetrock. We both had tears in our eyes and were so touched by the idea of God’s word in the walls of our home. There are so many wonderful scriptures that I could fill the entire house with God’s encouraging words.  These are a few that I added.

My latest project has been interior paint colors.  We will keep everything neutral throughout the house and a blue/gray in the laundry room for something fun! Here are the Sherwin-Williams colors that I’m loving!

SW6210-Window Pane

Next time we should see some brick walls!