The trim goes on.

The painters moved right along today - until the massive thunder storm drove them to the new garage. We also passed the HVAC inspection, had more electrical completed, the insulation guys foamed up all the holes, and we tried to pass the electrical inspection. We corrected all of his from yesterday and got his new list of things to fix.

We've got the big doors and color!

The garage doors came yesterday. We can't use the openers yet. We need to get the outlets connected, but we can park in there and get away from hail and tornadoes!

They are also painting the house, adding the trim detail to the pillars on the front porch (brick will go on the bottom), and putting in smoke detectors throughout the existing house. We had the electrical and plumbing inspections yesterday. We didn't fare as well as Garret did in Kindergarten, but the changes aren't too big of a deal and should be taken care of in the next few days.

We are Plugged In... Almost

The electricians and plumbers have worked hard this week and we almost have power to the new spaces. They just need to finish tying in the new board to the old one and then we will have our electrical inspection on Monday. That means Brendan needs to pull or replace the speaker wire this weekend that he and John put in because it is not the right kind for the inspection. The garage doors should go in tomorrow and the painting crew starts early next week. Speaking of paint - (that's all we've been speaking about), we have a new color - High Tea from Sherwin Williams. It is a little green and a little brown. It really makes the Peppercorn look blue green which we didn't like. We are excited by it and look forward to seeing it on the house.

The Siding is finished!

Here is the front of the house with the siding finished. Does this help visualize one of the colors more than the other?

Paint - We are working on options!

OK - so the greenish color is Peppercorn and the lighter brown is Thatch. We had Peppercorn yesterday along with a grey blue that got nixed. We drove around town today looking at a bunch of houses and found an almost exact match for the green with a tan/khaki trim. It looked really good. Not too dark, but enough color for us. The lighter brown is new but we think we like it as well. It would have a sort of similar trim. We also like this darker brown for the bit of shingle detail we have around the house. I am not a good paint picker - my brain can't see the entire house from a few feet of paint. I'm nervous! Regardless you have to at least promise to love it (even if you don't) once it is done! HA!

We've got a driveway!

We got our new driveway on Friday and the siding was completed on Saturday. Big progress We also had DirecTV come out and relocate the dish and wire for the addition and new great room. Surprisingly enough, getting them here and to do their job might turn out to be the hardest part of the project. I was relentless on the phone Saturday morning and eventually two very nice guys came and spent the better part of the day with Brendan. We are excited for the progress!

Friday Frenzy

We had quite a bit of action up on the house Friday. The roofing crew replaced our old shingles and shingled the new space all in one day. The siding crew was here at the same time so they danced around each other and managed to get quite a bit completed. The framing is finished, so now the electrician and plumber go to town as well as the HVAC guys, exterior painters, and brick layers. The siding crew is working today and then everyone is off until Tuesday. It's going to seem quiet around here.