Daily Update, August 20

Refrigerator and wine/beer cooler came today, but since the cabinet hasn't been fixed yet, they're sitting in the garage in their boxes. I'm dying to see them, but will resist the temptation to open the boxes until they're ready to put in place. Only a few more weeks now. But very likely the week after labor day.


Gary has started on the fireplace. He's got quite a lot of figuring to do and I guess these are his notes and practice runs with scrap wood.

More lighting fixtures. And I can't resist posting pictures of Amber's room. Miles is already tired of the pink and wondering when we can paint it.

Hall fixture lights.

Tyler's room.

Cory's room

Master fan.

Master shower. The tile is grouted and it looks awesome.

Linen shelves in the master bathroom.

Tile entry. He just set this today so the tile is dirty and hasn't been grouted. It's amazing how much better the tile looks after the grout is in.

Greenbelt

The boys wanted their rooms to be 'Greenbelt'. That was just too bright, so we went with Artichoke. They like it, but keep asking me if it's Greenbelt. Do I tell them? Regardless, they love it and I love it, so it's a win-win. (See Amber's room down the hall?!)

Cory's Room Update

Also after a lot of back and forth and debate, we finally decided to frame in Cory's room and made some changes to his outside wall and his bathroom and closet. In order to break up the big wall view from the great room, we decided to add a built-in book case and an art niche. These changes shrunk his room 15 inches along the north wall. In order to get some space back, we made the bathroom a little smaller and made the closet one with regular bypass doors instead of a small walk-in.

Unfortunately, the cabinet had already been made for his bathroom, so we'll need to put that in the basement and ordered a new one for the bathroom. Kind of a bummer, but I think the changes in the room are worth it.

Upstairs

Now that there are stairs going up, I can get up there and take pictures. Here's a view of Tyler's reoom from the top of the stairs. Cory's wall and the hall wall are not framed yet.

View from Cory's room over the arena and Grammie and Bumpa's house.

Cory's Room

Now they have Cory's room framed in. I guess they did get a lot of work done today despite the wind (again!).

And also the cool window over the stairway.

And some of the sheating on the master bedroom.