More importantly, three weeks from today Sara WON'T be at a coffee shop doing homework. I'll hopefully be preparing an omelet and strawberries for her, maybe to eat on the front porch if it's nice out (we won't yet have a deck).
Sara and I went to Gaytee Stained glass yesterday afternoon for our second trip. TJB puts a piece of stained glass in all of their homes. It's one of their trademarks and part of the deal if you want to build with them. We'll have a custom designed stained glass window in the transom between the foyer and study in the front of the house. It's an odd place (maybe that's to be expected at a stained glass store in Uptown), but the people are very nice and they had our design all sketched out and ready to go. We picked out the pieces of glass we're going to use for different components. It took us all of 20 minutes and we were on our way. I didn't take pictures of the sketch to add here, but we're going to like it. It is simple and reflects some very important values of ours. The types of glass we were able to choose fit the theme too, which I think will really add to that part of the house.
After picking up Sara's graduation cap and tassels from the U (see above regarding the homework issue) we enjoyed some Punch Pizza at the U and then headed up to Blaine out to the house.
With the exception of the carpet, fridge, vessel sink, mirrors and a couple of lights (oh, and US) basically everything is in the house now. For the next few weeks it is a matter of all of the little details, and making sure there were no mistakes. We have a couple of walk throughs to make sure everything is perfect.
The lights and the water are now functional. We arrived at the house early enough that we could still look around without them, but it was fun to see everything functioning. You will recall that we did the electrical walk through months ago when we literally walked around the house with the electrician and told him where we wanted every outlet, light and light switch. Turning lights on in the house last night, I think we generally got it right.
We're still debating on what to do with the light we put in the foyer. We really like it, but it might hang down just a little too far. We still have one chain link we can remove, and it is right on the edge of being just a little too low.
This is the light in the the study with a view of the side wall. It is cool to see these up and working.
Here is the chandelier in the stairs on the way up to the second floor. You can see this is one of the little details we need to take care of. (One of the lights is out). I'm hopeful that it is just the bulb he installed and not one non-functioning light on the chandelier. Either way, it will be fixed. We're really happy with the family of lights we picked out throughout the house.
The next two pictures are in the master bedroom. We took a lot of liberties here to make it just the way we want it. There is soffit around the vault where, as you can see, we have lighting that turned out awesome. We'll eventually put speakers up in the corners as well.
The garage lights are all working too, and as you can see they built in the stairs up to the door. At the bottom of the stairs is all of the paperwork that the inspectors need to sign off on as they do their inspections. Looks like we're on schedule to have everything inspected and approved.
And this is what the house looks like from the street with the outside recessed lights in, and the chandelier on. We had purchased 100 watt "day light" CFL bulbs for the outside recessed lights. The ones that were installed are soft white and don't really give off enough light outside. We'll have to get that changed. Other than that, I think this looks great, and it is fun to see a lit up house from the street.
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