Starting the Flooring

It was a little late Friday get out to the house with good daylight, so we had decided to spend some time there on Saturday.Early Saturday afternoon, we had our first chance to meet Mike and Erin's little Nils Krueger, who is just a week old. Very cute kid. It was fun to see Mike and Erin in their new role as parents.

Afterwords, we headed down towards Edina and the Galleria with the intention of looking at some closet and pantry options again at California Closets. We're still not sure the direction we're going to go on closets.

On the way, we (Sara, who was driving at the time) decided to stop at "The Container Shop." Little did we know that we'd spend about 2 and half hours there designing a Master Closet with a "closet consultant." They have a system called Elfa. It is somewhat custom, while generally less expensive and conveniently adjustable.

We now have three distinctly different options to choose from. I think we are pretty well set on setting up our master closet, pantry, mud-room closet, office closet and guest coat closet and dealing with the rest of them when we get in and settled.Today, Sara and I went out to the house to figure out exactly what size bar stools we're going to want around the kitchen island. We're going to wait a while before we get a nice kitchen table and chairs, so for the foreseeable future once we close, we're going to eat at bar stools when we get into the house. We'll probably do that frequently anyway even after we get a table, so we're looking for nice bar stools that go with the look and feel of the kitchen we're putting together.

Much of the flooring for the house is in boxes in different rooms around the house. They didn't quite finish painting Friday, but I suspect they will the first part of this week. Village starts laying tile tomorrow. This picture is the office, but the tile in there is for our Master Bath (the boxes in the back) and the other bathrooms upstairs (towards the front).


This is the small glass tile that will serve as a back splash around the tub in our master suite and an accent around the wall in the master shower.


This is some stuff that they'll use when they lay the tile (at least that's what someone told me).


This is a little hard to see because I didn't take them out of the box, but the black rod in the middle of this photo is one of the railings for the stairs (the rest of which are in the box)


This is one of the materials used in the master bathroom to install the wire mesh in floor heating. We're really excited about this.


We left the house and headed home after measuring all of the closets and the pantry to take back with us to The Container Store next weekend. Both of us really like the tree below and as we look towards the landscaping, we'd like one of these in the front yard.

Anyone know what it is?


Oh yeah, remember how the whole purpose of going to the house was to make sure we had the right measurements for the bar stools. That's the one thing we didn't do.