Well sorry about the lack of updates but here’s where we are now. I’ve still got a few minor things I’m working on finishing up but we are mainly done. We moved in back in October just to get out of our apartment we were living in.
The last 8 weeks before we moved in was a madhouse. We had to give a 2 month notice at our apt and 2 weeks into that I caught Covid which left me on house arrest for 10 days and with absolutely zero energy for 15 days, not ideal to lose 25% of the days I had left to get it ready to move in. Then, wouldn’t you know it, on the home stretch 5 days before we were moving out our crackhead neighbor caught her apartment on fire. Luckily we had already sold all our furniture that we didn’t want anymore and the firefighters got things handled quick enough that we didn’t lose any of our clothes to smoke damage.
In any instance here’s where we are now. Mainly waiting on furniture that seems to be perpetually backordered and I need to get some dead stuff hung up on the walls!
Exterior (still need to get my landscape lighting installed)
Kitchen/Living/Dining (have some decorative beams I still need to get installed in the kitchen pop up ceiling and dining room)
Master Bed/Bath
Game Room (wife still needs to pick out a light fixture of fan for in here but she hasn’t been in any hurry since we are still waiting on furniture)
Upstairs Bedroom/Bathrooms
Guest/Powder Bath
Some of the unique details
Built in Shade pockets that use the window casing as the valence. We wired for motorized shades at all locations but they are all manual for now. Covid crushed our construction budget.
3 panel dishwasher (left) to match cabinet on the right to further disguise the dishwasher
Pop up outlets on island
Strategically placed return air locations to hide them and reduce the amount of “stuff” visible on the ceilings
Recessed outlets behind all nightstands and TV’s so that furniture can be pushed all the way against the baseboard and not press against the plugs
All the bath vent fans have hidden switches relocated inside the vanities and automatically operate via motion detection or humidity detection. One less switch on the walls in all those locations.
Lutron Lighting control for the main living spaces. It’s nice to just press the “all off” button on the way to bed instead of having to make a lap around the house turning off all the lights. Also nice to not have large switch banks on the wall anywhere.
The last 8 weeks before we moved in was a madhouse. We had to give a 2 month notice at our apt and 2 weeks into that I caught Covid which left me on house arrest for 10 days and with absolutely zero energy for 15 days, not ideal to lose 25% of the days I had left to get it ready to move in. Then, wouldn’t you know it, on the home stretch 5 days before we were moving out our crackhead neighbor caught her apartment on fire. Luckily we had already sold all our furniture that we didn’t want anymore and the firefighters got things handled quick enough that we didn’t lose any of our clothes to smoke damage.
In any instance here’s where we are now. Mainly waiting on furniture that seems to be perpetually backordered and I need to get some dead stuff hung up on the walls!
Exterior (still need to get my landscape lighting installed)
Kitchen/Living/Dining (have some decorative beams I still need to get installed in the kitchen pop up ceiling and dining room)
Master Bed/Bath
Game Room (wife still needs to pick out a light fixture of fan for in here but she hasn’t been in any hurry since we are still waiting on furniture)
Upstairs Bedroom/Bathrooms
Guest/Powder Bath
Some of the unique details
Built in Shade pockets that use the window casing as the valence. We wired for motorized shades at all locations but they are all manual for now. Covid crushed our construction budget.
3 panel dishwasher (left) to match cabinet on the right to further disguise the dishwasher
Pop up outlets on island
Strategically placed return air locations to hide them and reduce the amount of “stuff” visible on the ceilings
Recessed outlets behind all nightstands and TV’s so that furniture can be pushed all the way against the baseboard and not press against the plugs
All the bath vent fans have hidden switches relocated inside the vanities and automatically operate via motion detection or humidity detection. One less switch on the walls in all those locations.
Lutron Lighting control for the main living spaces. It’s nice to just press the “all off” button on the way to bed instead of having to make a lap around the house turning off all the lights. Also nice to not have large switch banks on the wall anywhere.
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