House Update

No new pics of the house, but they've definitely done a lot lately. The inside has been painted. They've fixed the stairs, put in the ballasters, handrails and starter step. All of the cabinets, baseboards, crown molding and countertops are also in. The fireplace mantel is also in along with the granite tile surrounding the fireplace. This past weekend, they put in the tile in the entry way, kitchen, family room and all of the bathrooms. It'll probably be fully grouted by this weekend. We upgraded to 18" x 18" tile in the entryway, family room and kitchen and it looks awesome! It makes a huge difference, but we didn't spring for the diagonal layout...but it would have been nice! The tile in our bathroom shower and tub is a lot darker than I remember it, but I absolutely love it! We're going to have to go with really dark paint in there just to match. The past two Drees model homes had master bathrooms in a gold tone, which I think would look awesome in our bathroom. I never thought that I would say that! They are also working on the backsplash in the kitchen, we spent forever picking it out, I hope that it looks okay! I talked to our builder last week and we'll be getting appliances and our lighting fixtures soon.

They've scheduled our close date as January 4, 2007, which I'm not really happy about. Basically, I'll be huge (7.5 months) and it'll be the start of busy season.

I was hoping to get in before Christmas because I bought all of these cute ornaments at Crate & Barrel at their after Christmas sale last year and I really wanted to use them in our new house this year. I guess I'll have to wait another year. On the positive side though, Steven is adamant about getting a 9.5' tree to put in our living room, which means that we'll probably hit up the Crate & Barrel sale again this year in order to have enough ornaments to decorate the monster tree! Hopefully, we can get the tree on sale after Christmas. Yay...I can't wait!