Would you like a tour?
Wow. We left off on February 25th where we'd just erected the walls on the main floor. Mother nature has certainly not been our friend through this build process, and a few days of extreme cold or snow have really slowed us down. But the first days of March brought some warmer weather our way.
We headed off on a family vacation leaving March 1st and returning today - March 10th. We stopped by the house on the way to the airport, and they were just starting to work on the second floor.
We returned home on March 10th, and drove straight to our build site. Imagine my surprised when we pulled up to an (almost) actual house.
Would you like a tour? This is my living room. The center wall (facing) will contain a fireplace. The entry to this room will be with two French doors.
This is my Dining Room. I didn't capture a picture of the ginormous dining room window. The dining room contains a pass-through to the kitchen.
This is my kitchen. It seems larger on the plans. Looking at a big open space for some reason makes it look smaller than I thought. The cooking area is approximately 14 x18 feet. The eating area (not pictured) is approximately 10 x 18 feet - so the whole kitchen is about 24 x18 feet. So why does it look so small :(
In the picture above, the big opening will house a pocket door that will pass through to the mud-room. We're planning some locker-style cabinetry for the mud-room. A full bathroom is also planned for the mud room.
I will have a nice big picture window overlooking the back yard. We've ordered sliding French doors which go from the eating area to the covered porch in the back yard.
This is our great room - the focal point of our house. The great room is accessible through the kitchen and the hallway. The wall behind the children should be about 20 feet high. The kids would have enjoyed seeing it lifted into place, but unfortunately this happened while we were on holidays. The wall was too tall and heavy to be lifted so it was built flat and then hoisted in place by a crane. The great room will be completely open to ceiling being topped with a cathedral ceiling.
Here you can see the foundation has been laid for the covered porch. Below the large covered porch are two huge cold rooms - one of which will hold the future wine cellar.
Shall we go upstairs? Here is a picture of the future guest bedroom.
It's looking a bit small, but hopefully once all these sheets of wood are gone, Sienna's bedroom will look a bit larger.
Victor's bedroom looks out onto the back of the house.
My dream laundry room. It took several rounds of fighting with my architect to get this room exactly as I wanted. I described in detail the laundry room centered on the upper floor plan with cabinetry on both sides, and a space for a built-in sewing desk. The first plan gave me a little closet of a laundry room in the middle of the house. The second plan gave me a slightly larger of a laundry room tucked into the side of the house. Several plans later, I finally had the laundry room of my dreams. Weird, I know. Who dreams of a laundry room? Here it is all framed in:
My master bedroom was also a design work in progress. The current master bedroom is about 15 x 21 feet and houses a large cathedral ceiling.
My master ensuite easily planned out according to my vision. It was one of the few rooms I did not have to fight my architect on. As soon as you enter is a water closet to the right, a two person glass shower on the left, followed by a makeup counter on the right, and a two-sink vanity on the left. At the end of the room will sit a two-person free-standing tub.
And finally, my walk-in closet:
It has taken a little over a month of build time to get to this point. I'm thinking a move-in of July is looking pretty doable.
