This house is starting to come together!  The carpeting is in and the wood floors are all newly polished and look beautiful!  We are working on detail work now so this is the fun part!  Mike and I went to Country House Furniture in South Haven yesterday to meet with Brandon Cook about the furniture.  This is the part of doing a house that I really enjoy!

Here are the latest pictures!  I even took some pictures of the sunset and the tram tonight.  Enjoy!

Julie

 

We even put a Christmas tree in the house!

 

 

Here are the tram and the beach tonight!  The weather has been so nice I can't believe it's December!

Tomorrow the carpeting gets installed!  AND the wood floors are completely refinished!  We are almost done!!

If you have time on Sunday come out and support Hospice.  Our house (the one we live in) is on the home tour on Sunday.  Buy a ticket and tour the homes and make some money for hospice.

I'll have lots of pictures after tomorrow!  I think we might even have a Christmas tree in the Maple Grove house!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We had a very productive week.  The claw foot tub is in.  The shower is tiled and grouted.  The wainscoting is in the entry.  The wood floors are sanded and ready to be finished and the carpeting is coming on Friday!

Mike and I worked all day today - no Black Friday shopping!  Painting, painting and painting - and some grouting!

The wet bar is done and the gas meter is hooked up - we will have the furnace on next week which will be very nice. 

I can hardly wait to start furnishing and decorating now!!

Here are some pictures of our recent accomplishments.  It is really starting to look like a house!

OK I have the shower sideways!

The landscaping is done and it looks awesome!  The kitchen is almost completely finished and Mike and Harry have been working on the oak floors in the new living area upstairs.  Bruce and P.J. have finished the drywall and are now installing doors.  We have to hurry up and order carpeting and figure out this wet bar for the lower level! 

My next assignment is staining - doors and trim!  Harry and Mike will start tiling showers pretty soon too! 

It is all coming together and I think it's looking great!!!

 

Julie

The siding is all done!   The deck railing is up!  The kitchen backsplash is installed and the drywallers are getting ready to sand!!

Rosemont Nursery is going to get the landscaping in too!  I can hardly wait to see it.  Hopefully they can get some of the sod down before the remnants of hurricane Sandy start showing up here later. 

Here are the latest pictures:

Julie

What a beautiful day!  And the Detroit Tigers won last night too!
So many things have been going on with the house that I have hardly had time to post anything (and I lost my camera again). 

We have been painting and staining and building decks and the contractors have been building stairs inside and outside and installing siding and kitchen cabinets and getting the electrical and plumbing and mechanical done!  It has been so busy!!

Today the guys from Classic Stone Creations delivered and installed the kitchen counters.  I love them!  We had the stone leathered so it has an awesome texture.  The guys are also working on a new counter of carrara marble for the upstairs bathroom. 

Here are some of the latest updates! 

Here are the latest pictures!  Koops drilled the well, the electrical inspector was here and the lower level master suite, half bath, laundry room and utility room are all framed in.  They are working hard to get the new kitchen ready because the cabinets are in at Hannapel Home Center!  Things are starting to come together!

The stairs and decks are going up so it will be so much easier than going up a ladder to the second level! 

AND the furnace was installed today too!

I hope to have many more updates this week.  We have come a long way from when the house was moving down Blue Star Highway!

Hope you all saw the dedication of the Casco Nature Preserve in the South Haven Tribune this weekend and the picture of the Maple Grove Cottage!

Julie