House Progress 1

We have been busy! Since we signed our contract there have been so very many questions...the first of which was which lot was best. There were not tons of options, but enough, and it seemed like each one had pros and cons. We finally weighed them all and decided on this one. It is a larger lot that will give us a big (for Colorado) backyard, backing to open space. We do have the one house you can see above us and this lot was not set up for a walk-out basement so I had to compromise there, but we feel so lucky to have got this one!

Sorry about the dark pic and the random cars in front...the huge pile of dirt is right where our house will sit.

Next we went to the Design Center to have our first session with our designer...we got a lot of exposure and learned a ton, but between sick kids and all the options smothering us, I felt like we didn't get too much accomplished in the first session. We did find out that you can upgrade yourself by thousands in no time at all. And I'm told I have expensive taste...hmmm

After that it was off to Utah for a little break for Thanksgiving...while it was a welcome break, it was hard to leave when things felt so pressing. It turns out the break was just what the doctor ordered and after returning home we have gotten right to business and we have almost everything picked out.

This is what we went with for the exterior (that is our stone on the counter next to me that you can't see very well. I know this isn't the greatest pic but do what you can with it.

I guess our first visit to the Design Center was more productive than I thought because when we went back we were totally ready to make decisions and things moved pretty quickly. We didn't get many pics but there will be more to come, I promise.

This is our kids and guest bath color scheme.

And our master bath.

We did end up going with the wood cabinets with the cocoa glaze instead of the white. I was definitely leaning the other way, but after much deliberation I decided we can always change them to white later if I still dream of a white kitchen. And we may do the laundry room cabinets white!!! For now, we are waiting on the laundry room because it is huge and it is a laundry/mudroom so we want custom cabinets there to make it more organized for shoes, coats,backpacks, and things.

We decided to go standard on somethings to save money and we will change them out hopefully just after we close, before we move in. The design center prices are a little inflated and we should be able to do better this way, despite the extra work.

Here is the hardwood we want...probably the biggest upgrade by far.

We still have to decide on carpet and granite, but that will come a little later since we are doing it this way. They also didn't have a fridge we were happy with so I am shopping around for one of those if anyone has any ideas. It has been a fun and stressful process so far. I love that we get to make our decisions but at the same time it really scares me that we are responsible for it all.

We Did It!

This is kind of old news if you are on Facebook, but if not...We are finally buying a house! We started looking a few weeks ago and to our surprise ended up in a new construction area. We wern't really planning to build, but after looking at our options decided this is the route we would take. We are so excited! It has been a long time coming. During the next couple of weeks things will be really crazy. We have to decide everything from exterior paint, shingle, and rock, to carpet and light fixtures, and everything in between. After that we just wait. The build out time is 5-6 months, so we are hoping spring but planning for summer. We will definitely keep progress shots on here so we can document this exciting journey for ourselves and anyone who is interested.

After we signed our contract, we got to put a little red monopoly house on our lot.