Opinions Welcome

We've selected our cabinets (rustic alderwood) and our floor color (Cola) and our Granite (Saint Cecilia). The pics posted are as follows: someone elses kitchen with alderwood cabinets (not our stain color), someone elses concrete floors with the Cola stain, our granite selection, and our stain choices shown with a small sample of our granite selection. In the next few days, I need to pick a stain. I know its not really the best representation of choices, but it's the best way I could come up with, given where those of you who are reading this are located in the world. So, if anyone wants to give me their opinion by comment, email, or phone call, I would welcome it.

Alderwood cabinets have a naturally knotty and distressed look to them.

Here is a cola stained floor (think brownish/red, like "old leather")
Saint Cecilia granite
These are the cabinet faces we are getting. This stain is called ginger.
This stain is called honey
This one is sage

Paint and an almost roof

I came home after sunset on Friday, but could tell that the house had been painted that day. That was a surprise as the framer had to finish a lot of little extraneous changes and/or repairs. Saturday morning when I woke up, I did not like the color of the house at all. It looks a little better in the evening sun and in cloudy skies, but in the morning light it has a pinkish undertone that I don't necessarily care for. Perhaps the paint dried a bit more thoroughly by the next day because I didn't mind it so much yesterday. The following pictures were taken yesterday near dusk. Left side - utility
Rear
Right side - our room


Side porch

Fireplace
Front corner
View of our bedroom, closet, and bathroom standing at french doors
View of living room, down hallway, to back door. Taken standing at the front door

Sam enjoying the front porch

What a difference a day makes

The people who do the siding were out bright and early yesterday. Actually they have been out bright and early the past several days, but had nothing to do. For whatever reason there was a delay in getting the material delivered for the next several steps. The framers had to come back out a few times to correct some things: putting missing headers up, putting an angle in a ceiling, replacing two 2 x 4s with one 4 x 4, replacing two cracked trusses in the utility room, etc.

Yesterday though, the workers managed to plywood and tar paper all of the exterior walls, plywood 90% of the roof, install the windows, and put in the cornice and fascia. We are still waiting on the temporary exterior doors, and our utility room door. The utility room door is a pocket door which needs to be installed before sheetrock stage.

Here are some pictures from yesterday

Front
of house Left side (far left window is our bathroom and other two windows are our bedroom. The vast expanse in between is MY closet!)


Rear of the house. You may say, "Amanda and Rich, you don't have any windows? How can that be?" Well, the answer is twofold. One, the view from the back of the house is very unglamorous. Actually, all you'll see is the garage. Second, the den, is now the "Media Room". We are putting in two rows of theater lights on dimmers and purchasing a big screen TV. That is actually the only room in the house that doesn't have a window (except, I suppose for the hall bathroom). The window to the far left of the picture is in the utility room.
This is the right side of the house. Window locations from left to right are front living room, guest bedroom, and guest bedroom.
This is me in one of the guest rooms.
Ongoing demolition.

Framing Done

Front of houseLeft side of house looking at porch and Amanda and Rich's bedroom
Rear of house

Right side of house looking at utility room and guest rooms View of front porch from side of house

Standing at back of our bedroom. Opening is where french doors to side covered patio will go
Half wall is kitchen. To the left of that is the breakfast "nook". I am standing in the kind of small front living room.
This was taken standing in the french door opening of our bedroom, looking at the large side patio.
Demo - have a new computer, so can't post a side by side of original view until I get those pictures off my old computer. If you look at the previous post where I am swinging a hammer at a wall - that was taken in this "room".
Beginning of Phase 2. Rich took down the siding covering the original mobile home and took out the windows.

I can't decide what to title this post

I lie, I was going to title the post something creative, like "Framing Started", but I wanted you to have the same sort of feeling of surprise I got when I came home last night. The framing wasn't supposed to start until today, so how exciting to see that it started early. This is the view from about halfway up the driveway. I wanted to take more pictures, but got so excited just looking at all the rooms. The front living room might be a little small, but all the others are just fine. The framing should be finished today. The framers were at the house this morning at 7:30. I will be sure to take pictures from all angles to share with everyone. George and Vicki left for one of his daughter's weddings in Kentucky yesterday before this work started, so they'll quite possibly come back to a fully dried in house on Sunday.