Finished floors
The last couple of weeks have been spent finishing the floors - sanding, coating, etc. We went with a clear, water-based finish (not the kind that leaves the glossy look) on the brazilian cherry floors and they came out beautiful - deep tones of red, gold, and brown with some irridescent undertones in the afternoon sunlight. Absolutely stunning! The stairs look a little dark in the photo above because I actually took the picture from outside through the open french door. But they are beautiful too, especially with the fir bannister and the green walls!
There's still a lot of lighting to be completed. What I REALLY want to be able to do first and foremost is turn the lights on in Baby Girl's room so I can see what they look like! They've been installed for some time now, but the switches are not yet. Our bathroom lighting fixtures finally arrived last weekend but still need to be installed and there are many switches, recessed light trims, light bulbs, and our dining room and stairway chandeliers left to install. The lighting had to wait though until the floors were finished. So we are hoping to see those in soon!
Our punchlist walkthrough with our builder and architect is on Tuesday although Tim and I did a preliminary one today to help save time.
While we were out there today Tim also mowed the new grass for the first time. It was in dire need but we had some logistics to work out first. We were instructed by the hydroseed company to not mulch for the first mowing or two. Unfortunately we don't have a bagger for the riding mowers, so that meant Tim had to drag our regular gas mower out to the property and mow with it (emptying the bag frequently, obviously). He made a pretty good dent in it for the time we were out there. We'll be back out tomorrow :-)
That's it on the new home front. I'm assuming we're still on track for August 12th unless we hear otherwise - it certainly seems so with what's left to do.
I'm looking forward to being able to start getting the nursery set up ;-)
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