DAY 41

After arriving home from the most fabulous trip to Wisconsin, Skyler and I drove to the house to see the drywall going up. While I was gone, Skyler took a day off to do the pre-drywall inspection. We hired a home inspector to walk through with Skyler before he actually met with our project manager. Everything went well, and there were just a few things that our project manager said he would have fixed before the drywall went up. Walking through the house with actual walls up was very different. We were used to looking through from one room to the next, so this makes everything much more real. We are absolutely stunned when we look at how much work has been done since ground breaking day early in July. I think you'll agree! 41 days into the building process and here's what we have...

The brick exterior is complete!

The back of the house is ready for the siding to go up.

The garage is now housing our doors, cabinets, railings, etc. You name it...it's probably there. We also have a fully functioning garage door!

This is the family room (from the kitchen). The first door on the left leads to the laundry room, which is just off the garage. The second door leads to the office.

This is a view of the kitchen from the family room. The huge doorway on the right leads to the front entry and down to the basement. The door straight ahead is to the dining room.

Here you're looking at the dining room from the living room.

View of the front entry way from above.

Here I'm standing in the master bedroom looking down the hallway (upstairs) to the other bedrooms. The first door on the right is for our closet.

This is the fabulous closet in the master bedroom. I can definitely get used to it!

Master bedroom

Master bathroom

"Water Closet" in master bathroom. The door to this "closet" will never be closed as I would surely die of severe claustrophobia.

This is at the other end of the hallway looking at the master bedroom. I'm standing in the entry to the guest room. The next door is the bathroom, followed by the baby room.

I'll spare you from posting every single room, as they do tend to look quite a bit alike. :) However, this is the guest room, where we're hoping our loved ones will stay when they visit us! Please note the closet in here. It will not be filled to the rafters like our current and former guest rooms. Our dear guests will actually be able to hang up their clothes. Yeah!!

And, finally, the basement. Beautiful, huh? It will remain almost exactly like this, until we can convince my Dad and brother-in-law to come and finish it for us! They are both pros since doing their own remodels, so it should only take them a few days!!! :-)