Getting Moved In

We are getting closer to being moved in.  The bedrooms and guest room are unpacked. The kitchen is unpacked, but I'm still moving stuff around. Living and dining room have new furniture.  I haven't put any pictures up throughout the house, so it doesn't feel quite complete yet.  Basically, we have the office and the 5th bedroom (studio) that haven't been unpacked at all.  The basement is even mostly put together with the exception of the stuff in the storage part of the basement.  Here's a few pictures of how things are coming.  Other pictures are on my phone, so I'll upload those in another post.

Kitchen: we haven't yet decided how to cover the sliding doors. I also would eventually like a new, coordinating table for the dinette.

The area to the left of the fridge has become my catch all. A rare clean moment here.

I haven't yet organized the pantry; but there's food in it!

Mudroom: I look forward to being able to build something to better organize coats and shoes. The closet in the mudroom is still a disaster.

Master Bedroom: complete with kitty cats.  The dresser/desk in the corner was my grandmothers. I've recently refinished it. I may post some pictures of that in progress at some point.

Master bath

Master Shower.  Not sure why my husband put the scale there. Lord knows I don't want to step on it right now.

Master closet, my half. This is remarkably cleaner than it was. I can't wait to get a better shelving system.  It's not quite working for me yet.

It's hard to believe we have our 30 day walk through scheduled for next week.  We have a large memorial day party each year, so that's been our motivation to get so much done so far. 

Kitchen Choices

We made so many choices this weekend that I think it's best to break it up over a couple of posts.  First I'll start with the kitchen.  

The flooring in the kitchen is an engineered hardwood.  This will be in the kitchen, dinette and foyer.  The wood type is Hickory and the color is called Fall Canyon.  This is the same flooring they have in the Ryan model home and we really like it.  

Armstrong, Hickory Fall Canyon Engineered Hardwood

We changed our cabinet choices, we originally had selected a cherry cabinet. We didn't particularly like the way it looked with the flooring. This year we put a glaze on our current cabinets to make them a Java color.  We really like it. With that in mind we decided to go with darker cabinets in the new home. The color is Maple Espresso. The cabinets are made by Timberlake Cabinetry and the product line is Scottsdale. 

Scottsdale Maple Espresso Cabinets

There will be granite in the kitchen which I'm pretty excited about.  I had researched the choices with Ryan ahead of time and found plenty of blogs and images for the granite choices.  I had an idea of what I wanted.  Bob and I both agreed on the Santa Cecelia Granite which seems to be one of the most popular.   It has a lot of variation in grain and color and offers a lot of warmth.  

Here is an image of them all together.  

Our appliance package is GE appliances in black.  I have information on them, I will post links for those later.  The kitchen sink will be a stainless steel under mount sink.  We didn't really care for the faucet options, so we are getting a very basic faucet which we will replace later.  All of the lighting and plumbing through the rest of the house is in Oil Rubbed Bronze, so it's likely that we will find a faucet in this finish later.  We chose not to have Ryan do our black splash either, so we will do that at a later time.