See-through no more

Well you can no longer see into the master bathroom from the kitchen. Drywall is up throughout the house. They really moved on it this week. The whole house is taped, mudded and sanded (save for a couple small touch-up areas). Below is the view from living room into kitchen, the inset is the pre-drywall picture.

And here is the kitchen from the back wall of the house, again the inset is the pre-drywall.

I was really shocked to see how far they had gotten. But, I guess when it's 6 weeks until close, stuff needs to get done. Keep your eyes posted early next week for the first video to come out of 1017 Prairie Lane. Merry Christmas!

Closing time

We have a tentative closing date. As it sits right now, we'll close on Friday, Jan. 27 at 10 a.m. We'll have a final walkthrough the week before on Jan. 20 to make sure all is well and then closing.

New items in the house since last time:

• Insulation is in, preparing for drywall. All outer walls and the initial layer in the attic. They blow more into the attic after drywall is in.
• Drywall is sitting in a stack on the living room floor.
• Counters sitting in the garage.
• Pretty sure the heat is on in the house, the last time I went by there was steam coming from the chimney.
• We've also been told there's some boxes in the kitchen, but not sure what those are (maybe flooring?).

Think that's it for now. More to come.

Wrapping our Christmas present

New development Sunday... the house is sided. The area you can see that has no siding is waiting for stone work, which could happen this week. Also possibly happening this week is the start of the drywall period. Once they get drywall on, we should have a good idea of when we'll get in the house.

We are the only ranch of the six houses that are being built right now, so I think that has led to things getting done on our place first. It's happened with roof, siding, and framing. Maybe because it's easier to work on the ranch? Whatever it is, we're not complaining. It's very exciting.

We put up the Christmas tree at the VB's this weekend, so now the Christmas spirit is really alive and well!

The waiting game

Amy and I had our pre-drywall meeting with the site manager today. Basically we stood in the house in the cold for 45 minutes going through all the electrical, plumbing, etc. before the drywall starts to go up. Everything looked to be in good shape. The builder is very upfront, pointing out a couple of places that they still had to do work or repair that we wouldn't have even noticed, so that made us feel good.

Nothing really exciting to show pictures of, but latest developments include:

• The furnace is in, not running, but close.
• Hot water heater delivered and waiting to be installed
• Siding sitting in the garage
• Stone in front yard waiting to be put up

So what's next? Well Accoring to Jim (not the ABC show, our site manager is Jim), they should start drywalling in the next week. They have to get heat into the house first, but he thinks that should happen soon. Once drywall is up, they should be able to give us a pretty solid end date, but today he said we're on schedule for our original date of mid-to-late January. So really, that could mean only six more weeks.

Doesn't seem like a long time, but let me tell you, Amy and I are so excited to move in. We're loving the time we're having at the VBs and so thankful for their hospitality, but we really can't wait to get in the house.

Our friends Jesse and Ronni just moved into a house in the same area, so everytime we see their place and how they are getting settled in, it gets us thinking about our place.

Oh well, patience is rewarded in the end, mid-January will be here soon enough.

BTW, special shout-out to Rich for being one of the few non-Amy people to comment on my blog. Thanks buddy.