Dig Date

We have a dig date!

October 9th

Big process

Almost done!

Another step...HUGE step

What a difference a day makes! I am starting to get really sad about leaving the house. Here is the latest addition:





I feel so bad for Allie in not getting the kitchen done sooner. I hope that she will forgive me in some future time. It is looking really nice. I am really excited with how it is turning out.

A big step

I went over to the woodshop last night and brought home a cupboard for our kitchen. This one goes to the left of the window above the sink as noted in the picture:



This is just the beginning. I am planning on bringing over quite a few more on Saturday.

Speaking of Saturday, we have a friend of a friend coming over and taking a look at the house. We had someone look at the house yesterday. They seemed pretty interested, but it is hard to read people. Even though our house has "been on the market" for 30 days, we have been happy with the response that we have received from just listing it with KSL classifieds.

I am giving us one more week to complete everything that we need to do in order to get it ready to sell. That includes the kitchen and the bathroom. Everything else can be done in the interim while it is "on the larger market."

Our house is still in the dirt

I know, I know. This hasn't changed too much. I just wanted to say that as our house is progressing, we are going to take pictures from the same angle and put them all into a movie. It will be like the cool fast-motion-documentary-type of a movie that shows things at different stages. Here is the first picture:

Design process finished

We found an interesting fact yesterday while we were doing the final designs for our home. The design center is not owned by Woodside Homes. We found this out almost near the end or our process so I think that had something to do with some of the pressure that we felt when picking out our stuff.

Our design lady was really nice and really helpful. I could tell that she had a good eye for things (maybe it was that she suggested something, say for instance our house paint color, and I would like it). But she helped us out a lot. I guess my only feeling was that she really tried to upsell everything she could, instead of look after our best interests - getting into a nice house the least expensive way. She really didn't want us to put in the standard grade vinyl flooring. Our refute was that we were going to just replace it with hardwood later on. "Are you going to do it in the near future - like within 6 months? Because if not, I would HIGHLY suggest upgrading." Well, that kind of made us feel stupid, because "we weren't getting the BEST STUFF for our house." I kind of just played along with her through most of the stuff - lighting, plumbing fixtures, etc.

But we survived with our original thoughts on upgrades - and even escaped with lower costs. The fridge was lower cost, and we added a vinyl (not-so-near-future hardwood) walkway through the family and living rooms which lowered our costs by $1! SAWEET!

So even though I thought that the salesperson was just trying to up her commission, I am pleased with what I think is going to be the final version of our house.

How much longer do we have?

One down, how many more to go?

I finished up one of my many projects around the house this last week. It had been bugging me for quite a while. I cleaned up all of the cables in our media closet and now it looks pretty good. The telephone can cable go into that closet and is distributed throughout the house from there. There is also a DSL filter so instead of having a filter for each phone in the house, there is just one filter for the entire house. It has worked seamlessly while we have had it.

Here are a couple of pictures: