Wednesday we spent several hours walking around Washington and checking out the cherry blossoms. It was great to introduce Sara to Brock's new fiance Niki Thursday night. We spent the weekend we our friends Eric, Nicole and EJ. Saturday I got to see Evan, and then we went out with Scott, Brock and Niki, Meghan and Manny, Parker and Todd, and the Hoplins. It was a great night.
We got back home today and headed out to the house while it was still nice and sunny out. I was able to watch the progress while I was away via a couple of great blog updates by Sara. Still, it is amazing how much things have changed in just a week.
These first couple of pictures are of the whole house from the front in its current state. You can see that much of the siding on the front is up. The black around the bigger garage, on the wall under the two windows, and the two columns is where they will be adding stone starting this week.
These are a close up of where some of the stone will go. There is some sort of metal mesh and then cement here now in preparation for the stone. Sara and I are meeting the stone people from Condor early tomorrow morning to go through a few things so our vision of how this is supposed to look is clear before they start. It turns out its a little easier to change paint and lights if we don't like it than it is to swap out huge pieces of rock.
Not a whole lot has changed inside other than the fact that the whole place is now sheetrocked and mudded. They are getting pretty close to being able to paint.
The biggest change inside is that they installed the tubes for the Wirsbo in-floor heat and poured the cement in the basement. You can see here that the basement floor (which was dirt when I left for Dallas) is now all cement.
They made a lot of progress on the siding since I was last out here. They had done much of the front with the Hardi, but hadn't yet started on the back. You can see that we have a little darker shade of grey around the sides and back compared to the Hardi that is on the front. I really like the way it has come together. I think they will finish all of this up this week.
Our understanding is that it won't take that many days to get the stone up on the front of the house. I'd guess that by mid-week they might even be done. We're going to pull the trigger on our flooring and paint selections the first part of this week, and after that we will have made most of the remaining decisions.
We arrived back to our town home to have a box of cabinet hardware in the mail. Sara has been amazing about finding our selections either on-line or at a variety of stores and has been able to drive down the price of these little selections each step of the way.
Cabinets that will use these knobs and handles will be done and installed over the course of this week and next as well.
Less than two months!
Wow what a lot of changes since you were gone. It looks really nice. Thanks for the photos, we look forward to seeing all the stone. It will be really sharp.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you had a nice time in DC. Congrats to Brock too!!.
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