Vacation and House is done!

So we left for a 3 week vacation while the house was being finished.  I did not want to be gone during this phase.  We booked the trip before we found out the house was being delayed a month.  I asked our PM to please send me updates and especially photos of the outside BUT, he sent me nothing.  Super disapointing but, I know he's super busy too. 

I had a neighbor take this and send it to me.  I was dying to see what it looked like.  I like it but I'm not in LOVE with it.  It looks much better in person but not as grand as I was hoping for.  The house feels really big, open, and beautiful when you are inside but the outside, hmmm...?  Well, too late now, so I'm not going to dwell on it.  With landscaping and such I'm sure it will get better.

This photo was taken the first day we got back.  They were putting the finishing touches on before we closed.

SINK and GRANITE news!

It's been so long since I posted (life has been crazy) that I have forgotten where I left off so I'm sorry if some of the this is repetitive.  

So after being denied my single sink time and time again< I finally got a YES!  Hallelujah! 

So now we come to the granite.  I had originally chosen Venetian Gold and was told by the SR that I could go to the granite yard and pick out my slab.  So I went to the granite place and HATED the venetian GOLD, I mean HATED!  IT was way to yellow and had a TON of black in it.  Not the look I was going for.  SO, after a call to my SR she agreed to let me look at the other granites RYAN HOMES offers.  I didn't like any of them.  No surprise, right?

I left the granite place feeling terrible and went in to talk to my SR the next day.  I asked if I could pick a granite that wasn't RYAN HOMES approved.  She said she would ask and YES! I went back and chose

GIALLO ORNAMENTAL

it's very neutral with cream and flecks of brown.

 LOVE!

Drywall is Done

Drywall is Done

Reader beware, tons of pictures ahead!

 Tons of pot lights in the kitchen.

 Coffered Ceiling in the Dining room.

 Front Entry

 View from the front door.  Little man wanted to be in every photo. LOL

 View from the Pantry looking into kitchen/morning room

 View from the kitchen sink

 Door in the morning room that leads to the backyard

 View from the kitchen/family room to the front door.

 View of the kitchen from the Morning Room

 Archway into mudroom and view of the powder room

 DH is checking out the light switch by the garage door.  The mudroom closet is big, I'm so excited about that!

 Mudroom Closet

 Window in the mudroom

 View from mudroom into office.  There is a "vent" type thing above all the doors.  It has something to do with airflow and energy efficiency

 The office

 Family Room (with the center window removed)

 View from the stairs looking into the living/dining room

 From the dining room looking at the stairs, basement door (L) and small closet (R)

 Tray ceiling in the master

 Looking into the master bedroom and door into the upgraded bathroom

 Master bedroom closet door (we made the 2 into 1 big one)

 Looking into the bathroom from the bedroom

Small linen closet in the bathroom (on the right)

 Jetted tub I can't wait to use!

 I love the windows over the tub, so pretty

 view from the top of the stairs into the Laundry Room.  Hall closet on the left.

 View into bedroom 4

 Bedroom 4 has the largest closet

 Upstairs looking into the entry way

 Bedroom 3

 Bedroom 3 (there is an added window and extra sq ft with the elevation we chose)

 Closet in bedroom 2 and view into added bathroom

 added bathroom in bedroom 2

 bonus room

Sloped ceiling in the bonus room

 Bonus room

Bonus room door to bedroom 2's bathroom on the left.  Door to bonus room from the stairs on the right.

SO DISSAPOINTED!

When we picked the upgrades to our home we went over and over them with our SR.  We had asked for the side entry garage door to be moved towards the rear of the garage instead of the front (which is where it's placed normally for Ryan Homes).  She said, that shouldn't be a problem they move then all the time.  They get moved because having an entrance right next to the HUGE garage door is not practical.  Most people I know who have them towards the front don't use then and just end up putting stuff in front of them.  I could go on and on but I'll stop.

So I was suprised to see the side entry garage door toward the front and not in the back???  Apparantly the structure blah blah blah isn't made to have the garage door in the rear of the garage.  A bunch of made up excuses if you ask me...just say'n.  So I call the SR and ask if we can just remove it since it's not going to be moved and I could use the $900 somewhere else.  I recieved a short and snippy NO!  Nothing can be changed.

Well that's funny since you changed the location from the rear to the front.  So you can change stuff but we can't.

SO ANNOYED!

UPDATE!- Side door has been moved to the back.

My biggest gripe yet to date is the SINGLE SINK issue.  PM has tried but whoever is above him is not budging on the sink.  Because and I quote, "Your home is  new model and we don't want people walking through it to think that it comes with a single sink"...Um, excuse me!  It's not YOUR HOUSE!  This comment really upset me.  I apparently am going to get no where with RH so I'm going to talk to the granite guys and see if they can do a light install on the sink so changing it out will be easier.  I will give an update when I talk to them which should be in a week or so.

UPDATE! - Single sink has been approved!  Thanks to my PM and SR for working so hard for us...YEAH!!!

Framing

I can't believe how much gets done in a day!  I drive by at least twice a day when I take and pick my kids up from school.  The house is only a minute from the school so it's a easy drive by. It's fun to see the progress.  One day theres nothing and then there's a house...it's crazy fast!

 Wood, windows, doors...delivered

 Day 1 progress

 These are the I-Joist beams I mentioned here 

The kids are so excited to see what will be their new home.  They want to go to the house Every Day!  I don't blame them, I'm excited and anxious too.

 Days 2 & 3 first floor framed

 Days 4, 5, & 6.  Second floor and Roof trusses.

 My boys sat in the car for a long time watching the big crane lift the trusses up onto the house.

 By the end of a week / week and a half we were all framed