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The Cabinets

Jenn

It's Like Getting Up From the Table at a Restaurant

The moment you do, boom your food comes.

So I wrote the nasty post about the house and boom shack-a-lacka, we have cabinets and a possession date. Sept 26th, we'll be sleeping in the new house =).

I'll post pictures of the cabinets shortly.

YEAH!!

Jenn

They Are There!

The good news is the cabinets are there!!!! Pictures to follow

Complaining

So I don't know if anyone actually looks at this blog anymore because it has been abandoned, but I ma going to refer to it from my original blog, so here is my complaining.

So the reason there have been very few updates on the house is because basically NOTHING has happened. We have been waiting for our cabinets ALL SUMMER. In mid June they told us it would be 4-6 weeks before they were delivered, then another 6 weeks to finish up flooring etc. And we would be in the house. That would have been this week. So the cabinet company is at least 6 weeks later then they said they would be. So we call once a week to check with our builder, Cardel, they contact the company and say oh it's coming next Tuesday or on Friday or whatever excuse they come up with at the time. The thing is I don't know if the cabinet company is feeding us a line or the builder.

The big problem is our house now is up for sale. Who knows when we will get an offer, and if we take it, we may have no place to live. (Which is not necessarily true, but I don't really want to move twice)

So when our builder calls us this week we are going to go postal and demand that he do is job and find us a proper date that these cabinets are coming. He needs to talk to the people who are making them, or the people who are shipping them. Go down there himself and look at them, because this is ridiculous.

I'm usually pretty nonchalant about stuff but enough is enough.

Till Next Time, and hopefully a better update.

Jenn

The House is Up For Sale

Well after a cleaning weekend bonanza here are the pictures for selling the old house. Here's the living room. Notice our designer's lovely mantle and they encouaged us to get lots of plants. Also the TV is on the opposite wall of when you come in.



What use to be the playroom is now the dining room. Notice Darryl's lovely table and chairs. Plus our favorite paintings that were moved to this room.



The den with the huge red chair in it. Which picture do you like better # 1 or ......
# 2........


The main picture of the front of the house. =)



So much hard work. Hopefully it sells quickly.

Jenn

News and Pics

Good news in regards to the house. The cabinets should be delivered in the next 2-4 weeks. Yipee, another 6 weeks after that and we should be ready to move. Yeahhh!! So we are looking at about August 15th =) Now it's time to get into gear with selling our place now. Here are some pics of the house, which has not changed in two weeks, and probably not for another two weeks.

Here's obviously the front of the house. Yeah for brown, will hide the dirt better then the yellow we have now.


The stairwell with the paint color that will give my parents and Darryl's parents heart attacks. Chocolate brown. =)


The living room with the stone fire place.
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This is from the back corner of the lots, which may not seem like a big deal, but if you live in any big city it is. Yeah for a big lot!!!

Jenn

Jeopardy Theme

The Jeopardy theme is playing in my head each time I think of the new house. We are STILL waiting to hear about the cabinets. I am going to call tomorrow and ask about it. Hopefully there will be an answer and we'll know when the current house can go on the market.

Do, do, do, do, do , do do, de,de,de,de,de,de,de

Jenn

To Bad You Can't See...

more through the front windows. The door was locked today as we stopped by. Tomorrow there will be a better update.

Jenn

Updates

Well we are STILL waiting to hear about the cabinets. In the mean time they are working on some of the other "stuff". Painting, siding and staining. Here are some pictures.



From the side of the house. The little window on the left side of the picture is our "mountain" window. As in you can see the mountains from this window.



The living room with the mantle. I love the contrast of the dark wood and light paint.

In the meantime we are also working on "staging" the house. We moved the huge red chair into the den to make the living room bigger and are cleaning out toy room to turn into a formal dining room. We're taking the beautiful table Darryl made and putting it into the dining room to make a good first impression when someone walks in. I also bought matching lamps for the bedroom upstairs. By the times it's done it should look beautiful.

I'll post pictures of our "staged" house soon =)

Till Tomorrow

Jenn

Answering Lori's comments

Quoting Lori ...

"
... Is the closing day very far away? Never having built a house...I have no concept of how long it takes.
"

The losing date is unknown right now. All we can hope for is sooner rather than later. The current 'guess-timate' from the builder is mid July.

A couple other comments about the pictures. All the railing, door frames baseboard and whatnot will be a dark walnut stain colour when their finished to match the walnut flooring, which unfortunately won't happen until after the kitchen is installed. It's the kitchen that is throwing the schedule out. We haven't got confirmation on the delivery date of the kitchen and once that's received, it's probably another 3-4 weeks until it's delivered and installed. The builder mentioned that it's generally another 6 weeks following kitchen delivery/install until possession.

A few camera phone shots.

Some Shots from this past weekend.

What to Do

Well there is a delay on the cabinets of our new house. So now we are sitting and waiting..... Mostly I appriciate the extra time to get the current house ready. There is still a bit more painting to be done and lots of little things in each of the rooms. What do you notice most when you go into someone's house?

Jenn

Quick Update

Darryl and I went to the house and were happy to see the progress. The walls have a coat of primer and the door are hung and framed. And we have a basement floor and a tub.

Yeah, it's nice to see things moving along. I'll be sure to post some pictures soon.

Jenn

Pictures

Here are some recent pictures of the house. As you can see the drywall is up. It is starting it look more like a house, and quite possibly bigger then my house now.


That is Darryl and Alexis in our living room.



And here is a picture of the skylight. I couldn't be happier that we put this in. We did lots of things in this house that I have never had before (hardwood floors, walkout basement) so I'm not sure how I'll feel about these things, but standing in the stairwell it is the only nautral light. And as Mom pointed out, it will save us money because we won't have to keep the light on as much.

Till Tomorrow

Jenn

A Video Walkthru

Drywall

So Darryl and I walked through the house this weekend. The insulation is all in so it's starting to feel a little more like rooms and a home rather then a lot of wood. Although still similar to a lot of wood. We are starting to get on selling our house. Painting, cleaning up junk, taking everything off the fridge. It's good feeling to get rid of "stuff". How far in advance should you put a house up for sale? We are in a sellers market, if that make a difference. Darryl also did a video walk thru so that will be posted in the next day or so.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Jenn

Walk thru

Today we had our framing walk through. Which was interesting, and a little boring, but mostly interesting. Having Darryl to build a house with is quite an advantage becuase it's like a walk through everytime we go through. He is quite knowledge about all the colored wires and why somethings have extra framing. We did meet Scott who is our contact as the house is built and he was quite knowledgeable as well. He was quite helpful in giving us information about when things would be done and which trades would delay our moving in. Hopefully things with the kitchen cabinets will be good. They have switched our cabinet company because Classic Kitchens were taking a long time. He also said the siders have been taking a long time, which hopefully doesn't mean lots of spring rain in our house.

Next is the insulation then the dry wall. There will be more pictures then... right now it's just new wires.

Jenn

Few changes, sorry no pics

Sorry Lori! (I'm a poet and didn't know it!)

Sorry everyone for being such a slacker! Unfortunately I don't have any pictures that are any more recent than what Jenn posted last. You can picture this though, it's the same as those except the electrical is finished and we have a concrete front step (one of those pre-cast ones) and a garage door.

At the moment we're in a waiting state. We're waiting to be booked for our framing/electrical walk-through but we can't have that until one more contractor has been there. That contractor is the company that will do the network, phone, cable, and speaker wiring. It's causing us to be pushed even further behind schedule. In this case, no news is bad news!

In my recent walk-throughs I've noticed a couple minor things that need attention. Minor in that, before drywall goes up these things can be easily changed. What's wrong you ask? The electrician missed a pot light over the island (directly over the sink) and centered the 3 outlets for the hanging lights over the center of the island rather than more towards the extended counter. The central-vac rough-in isn't complete in the basement either, needs to be connected all together yet. Oh well, these are the things that the framing walk-through is supposed to cover anyway.

In the meantime, the pause in progress is allowing Jenn and I to start our plan for the spring to prepare our current place to be sold. Lots to do on that front. We're patching little dents and knicks in the walls in preparation for painting. We've scheduled Home Depot to come in and replace the playroom carpet as it was peed on by Emma a long time ago. Starting to go through shelves and what-not to figure out what's to be moved, sold, recycled, and garbaged.

Someone's gotta do it

No worries Jenn, someone's gotta keep this blog going and I'm thankful that you are, since I've been a slacker on the blogging front as of late. I do think I have a bit of a good reason to be slacking off, which is, I've picked up some extra programming work from a friend of mine in south western Ontario and I've been trying to get the kitchen table done. I know, excuses, excuses! But I think their pretty good excuses all the same. :)

A few more notes about the house.
Some more of the things that are done are: The shingles are done, the central-vac rough-in is done, most of the plumbing is done (they just have to tie everything into the water and sewer pipes in the basement, the ducts and cold air returns are installed, and most of the furnace.

Next up should be electrical, data/phone/cable/speaker wiring, insulation, vapor barrier, then drywall. And on the exterior, siding, stone and raised deck.