Saturday, August 8, 2009

Friday Updates

friends coming over today to help either load the
Uhaul or moving in their own cars. Thanks everyone for the help!!!

We had to blow mulch on any soil that

was disturbed by our house construction.

Side view with new mulch covering
We are hoping that we can take down
the orange fences post Temporary



Bridge will be finished today and painted.
Ran out of lumber yesterday. Railings are clad and
color will be same as trim on house



Thursday, August 6, 2009

More Thursday updates

Front area from other direction-
mulch will be applied to all
exposed dirt in front and sides of the
house tomorrow morning.
Can't wait to see that.
Pic of new fridge and


we are loving the new hardwoods in the kitchen


Carpet and bamboo risers on all stairs in the house


Rock fireplace- flip of a switch and waaalaaa.





Natives in the back planters
with cistern in-between.
Planting these were a tough task for
Scott's mom and I but we did it.









Thursday updates


So tomorrow was suppose to be our 2nd change at
the final occupancy walk through. Yet again there were issues.
This time a structural engineer has to look at calcs on
bridge railing for we changed design to use wood
instead of metal. Of course the guy was
have used is out of town, so we are in
scramble mode. New tentative date
is Tuesday. We have 3
inspections tomorrow for stormwater items.
We are moving our stuff in Saturday for our
apartment is rented as of Monday morning

We planted some Natives in the side planters

in hopes of passing the inspection on Friday.

Side view of bridge- hoping to be built
and capped tomorrow. Asmir
and Enrique have been a huge help to us.

We have railings now on the stairs





Upper driveway is finished.
Not driveable yet but walkable.
Rockwall inspection passed today

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

More from Tuesday

Bottom of driveway being poured
For plumbing inspection had to have a backsplash on all sinks.



Tile in kitchen finished by tileman Scott

Tuesday update

Driveway poured this morning. Last week it was too hot to work on this

Kitchen Sink/Cutting board and
soon Instanta Hot Water tap will be installed :)

Tile behind cook top added/grouted and finished


Oven and Microwave installed




Top of driveway