Carol and Dick's Easter Visit 1.0

Sara's mom and her husband Dick were here visiting for the Easter weekend. Along with getting a chance to celebrate Easter with them, we were excited to get some of Dick's expertise and opinions on the construction of the house. And with a handful of key selections left, we were really looking forward to getting their opinion on all of the Village and lighting selections we are about to sign off on.

We hadn't been out to the house since Wednesday, and you will recall we were still terrified that we had made the wrong choice on the stone or the siding.

We went out the house to show Carol and Dick while it was still light out, and before we went to dinner.

We were amazed at what they had finished, and this was really the turning point for us on the stone.

You can see from the next few pictures what the stone, siding and shakes look like together after almost a week on the house.



With some minor tweaks that aren't even visible on these pictures, you can see they finished the arks and Hardi work in the section above the front door.





When we went in the house, we were pleasantly surprised to see that they had made huge progress already on all of the base and case trim work. And a handful of the interior doors have been hung already.

Here are Carol and Dick in front of the fireplace.


This is a picture of what will be our room with the first coat of primer paint on it. It looks a little bluer than it will be (it is a grey paint), but it is coming along.


This is the door to the pantry next to the desk just off of the kitchen and the mudroom. We absolutely love these shaker style doors. None of the paint or stain has been done yet, but this is the style of all of the internal doors.


This is the great room where they are doing a lot of the staging and cutting. There are boxes upon boxes of trim that they will continue to install for at least the next week.


We met the Laura and her son (and their cat) this evening. Laura is married to one of the Toms, and they have the home that was a model home by Accent builders just to the left of us if you are looking out our front door. We have run into Tom quite a few times now, including just before they decided to purchase that house, right after and while they were moving in. They seem like nice people (and while they don't golf, their two year old son was out with his little plastic golf clubs).

Laura was complimentary on the stone, and we've gotten other compliments on the stone, which has all been helpful. Our initial "eiwww" made us nervous that neighbors were just being friendly with their comments, but we're really coming around to the look, and it really has lightened up.

We were with Carol and Dick at the house for almost two hours, and then went out for a nice dinner at Bonfire which is fairly near the house.