Monday, April 1, 2013
Blessed!
Hello everyone! We are so happy we closed and moved (slowly) into the house. The kids were excited but my husband and son were worn out from all the lifting. Moving in on Easter wow...next time ( if we move again) we will hire a moving company LOL! There are still things at the old house that need to come over but they can fit in our truck. And no refrigerator until Wednesday. Ugh! Does anyone have the LG Door-in-door fridge? That's what we are getting. We got a sweet deal that is still going on at Home Depot. The more you spend the more you get off. We bought our fridge and practically got our freezer for free. We got a 14.7 deep chest freezer from GE (good ratings) for $69 when it was all said and done yay! And since they still have that offer I hope they have the Samsung front load washer and dryer I want. That would be sweet! Sorry this is long just wanted to give you all an update. No pics yet bc we don't have wifi yet :o( I am typing this post from my phone LOL! We are all blessed!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Guess what....
WE GET OUR KEYS IN 1/2 HR!!!! YAY!!!!!
NVR started moving fast to get us closed before the first of the month! So here I am telling you all before we walk out the door to sign. Sorry its been a while since I've blogged, but I will be back to tell you how it went.
Once again GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!
NVR started moving fast to get us closed before the first of the month! So here I am telling you all before we walk out the door to sign. Sorry its been a while since I've blogged, but I will be back to tell you how it went.
Once again GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
God is good all the time!
I will repeat the title of this post again by saying GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME! I say this because unfortunately we were unable to close on our scheduled date because of extreme circumstances not of our own cause. We had a major setback that could have cost us our home that we put so much effort and love into (but GOD is good) and we will close early April.
So these are all the pics that I was able to take at the time with my camera. I hope to be able to get back in the house with my husband so he can see or he will have a reveal day :o( he is too anxious LOL! Our inspector came in and was conducting a radon test so our PM couldn't open the windows to show me how they operated. (But windows are simple I see how they latch and open, no biggie) He left the radon detector downstairs and it should have been taken out yesterday so we will have to wait for the results.
We were very disappointed but extremely grateful that prayers are answered and blessings came. Even when we posted the pictures from the previous post we were still uncertain of the outcome of our home. But now we can say with great joy that we will be in our house.
We do not know the actual day we will be closing because we are waiting to see if an extension was granted and if (hopefully) our lock rate will still be the same. So once again we have the waiting phase. I did the walkthrough with our PM and everything looks great. My husband was working (thank God) and so I went with my mother-in-law and viewed the house. Once again "I love it" LOL! The funny thing is I took our camera but was unable to take pictures because I really don't know how to use it LOL! My husband always fiddles with it and basically learned it and kept telling me that I should use it and practice with all the different settings...well...I didn't. The settings were off and I didn't know how to fix it and then I thought I made it worse. Crazy! I finally was able to somewhat fix it but then it was on some delayed timer from when I pressed down the button it took about 10 secs of countdown before it actually snapped! I was done! So I didn't want to go back around the house snapping and holding my arm out until it took the picture. Here are the pics I took.
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| My stove and microwave from the side. Kinda dark though...settings ugh... |
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| A better picture from the side. I love my gas stove. I haven't cooked on one in a long time. Can't wait to use it! |
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| View of the kitchen into the great room. Paperwork on the island saying a radon test is being conducted. |
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| Kitchen again. The wood color changes depending upon the lighting in the room. I love that! |
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| My fireplace. This was a must. We have a huge wood burning fireplace in our current home which I love so had to have this. |
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| View of the floor and carpet |
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| Kitchen view. My mother-in-law is standing where the refrigerator will go. |
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| View going upstairs. Will apply Liquid Gold on my banisters to make them shine! |
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| My morning room! |
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| These are the doors to the office. I will be replacing them with glass paneled french doors. |
So these are all the pics that I was able to take at the time with my camera. I hope to be able to get back in the house with my husband so he can see or he will have a reveal day :o( he is too anxious LOL! Our inspector came in and was conducting a radon test so our PM couldn't open the windows to show me how they operated. (But windows are simple I see how they latch and open, no biggie) He left the radon detector downstairs and it should have been taken out yesterday so we will have to wait for the results.
I am so happy for everyone who closed on time and got your keys. I haven't been posting on your blogs but I will be. :o) Your homes are beautiful!
I have learned that a lot of people (definitely devils in disguise) will love to steal your joy and blessings but God is able and above all! We are truly blessed and loved from the many family members and friends (including my amazing SR and even our amazing loan officers) who offered words of encouragement and prayers! God never let the devil defeat what his blessing was for us! God may not come when you want Him but He is always on time! Truly blessed and grateful! I hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed day! All smiles in the Hill household!
Monday, February 11, 2013
It's been awhile, but WE'RE BACK!
Hey everyone sorry it's been awhile but we have been busy, busy, busy! Lots of new pics to show you of the progress of our home. A lot has been accomplished in the last 3 weeks.
January 28th
February 8th
February 9th
January 28th
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| So this is the basement in the drywall phase. |
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| You can see the stairs coming from upstairs into the basement. |
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| This is a view walking upstairs from the basement. And to the left you can see the textured ceiling. |
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| Morning room, drywall phase. |
January 28th & 29th
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| This is the tile in the laundry/mud room. |
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| This is the master bathroom tile. |
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| Yay for our hardwood floors going in! |
January 30th
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| We now have railings!!!! |
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| Another view of the railings. |
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| Nice view looking down from upstairs. |
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| Cabinets for our master bath. |
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| Kids/Guest bath with granite and tile. |
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| The doors are up!
February 6th
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| The house is prepping for the stone. |
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| My kitchen! Yay! You really can't see the granite but it is beautiful with the cabinetry. That is my PM measuring for our refrigerator space. |
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| My kitchen :o) |
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| Here is the fireplace. Love it! The french doors to the left lead into the office. They will be replaced with the glassed paneled ones. |
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| The dining room with the chandelier. |
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| The master tub. Keeping the ceramic tile simple, basic white and pretty trim. |
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| My shower. It is kinda small but workable! No taking showers together LOL! But my husband says he will make it work. SMH LOL! |
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| Stone coming along nicely :o) |
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| Side view of the house showing the stone with siding and bay window. |
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| Finished product of the stone exterior. It is beautiful, the pics do not do it justice! LOVE IT!
So here are all the pics of the progress of our home. The house is surely coming along! Oh and by the way for those people here in NE OH we also went to the Home & Garden Show! There were a lot of good ideas. Definitely going with some of those companies!
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Steadily Chugging Forward
Things are moving along nicely, they have completed the siding and are now back on the interior. Due to the extreme cold that we are having right now, they are holding off on installing the stone veneer until middle or late next week. Our new PM contacted us last night in response to a request from me for a progress update. So he gave us a run down of the next week or so, as I said before due to the cold they are holding off on the stone and are focusing on the interior. Yesterday the dry-wallers finished the mudding ( I guess thats what you'd call it ), the filling of all the seams and covering of all the screws used to secure the drywall to the studs. Today he has a crew in the house doing all of the sanding and finishing of the wall surfaces in preparation for the paint crew to come in and apply the prime coat throughout the house. Which he has scheduled for tomorrow. He caught me off guard with that, it seems that for the second time during our construction we will have crews onsite working on a Saturday. He plans to have crews in Monday through Wednesday installing all of the hard surfaces which we happened upon, being stored in the garage of the home on our latest visit the day before yesterday. The hard surfaces are the flooring, hardwood & tile. I am uncertain if the carpet is included in this phase. They will also be installing the cabinetry. I am assuming that at that point he's planning to bring in the stone crew to put in the stone on the front of the house. As alway we have lots of pictures for you guys. But I need to talk about the prime coat that I mentioned earlier. We decided to go with a prime coat because ryan homes only offers one color option for interior paints, we liked the color that they were offering but decided against it because we want to customize our home. Yes it would have been nice to move into a home thats already painted, but we felt that paint is one of the cheapest and most dramatic ways to customize our new home, so we're going to choose a custom color and have it painted ourselves.
Autumn Beige in the Sun
Autumn Beige in the Shade
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
:-) Siding.... HAH, WE HAVE SIDING!!!
Autumn Beige..... Ah, Autumn Beige, so little love so much distaste. I thought hate might be a little strong, not by much just a bit. My poor wife, she was soooo worried. Through her exploration of numerous blogs she became so very concerned with the "pink" nature of autumn beige. Me on the other hand... I could give a shit less, "could give a shit" might be a little aggressive... aww hell I don't put much stock into what the next man or woman thinks. I liked it when I picked it and that wasn't going to change till I decided for myself that I hated it, and I am glad to say I am not disappointed.
Huh, whats that you ask? Have I seen it in full on unobstructed sunlight..., ahhh well sort of I guess. It was overcast with the occasional break for a quick burst of sun. Aww who am I fooling no I haven't seen it in full on sun but I don't need to! I Love it!!! It has character, a tan that seems deep till you see it has a pinky, peachish hue to it that gives it depth and character.
Huh whats that you just said there fellah??? He must be gay!!! Now thats uncalled for don't ya think?! A man can't like pink? Hell the younglings are all sporting it or were not to long ago, I tend to not follow the latest trends to closely, I think this rapper started it a few years back.... But if you really have questions, test me. }:-)>
Ohh how I digress, seems that my surly alter ego Tbone, Worm or Hollywood Hill (he goes by a number of names), came to the surface damn it I thought I had him on lockdown. LOL , here are some pictures of the siding going up this was all done in about seven and a half hours.
Huh, whats that you ask? Have I seen it in full on unobstructed sunlight..., ahhh well sort of I guess. It was overcast with the occasional break for a quick burst of sun. Aww who am I fooling no I haven't seen it in full on sun but I don't need to! I Love it!!! It has character, a tan that seems deep till you see it has a pinky, peachish hue to it that gives it depth and character.
Huh whats that you just said there fellah??? He must be gay!!! Now thats uncalled for don't ya think?! A man can't like pink? Hell the younglings are all sporting it or were not to long ago, I tend to not follow the latest trends to closely, I think this rapper started it a few years back.... But if you really have questions, test me. }:-)>
Ohh how I digress, seems that my surly alter ego Tbone, Worm or Hollywood Hill (he goes by a number of names), came to the surface damn it I thought I had him on lockdown. LOL , here are some pictures of the siding going up this was all done in about seven and a half hours.
We have Elevation C with the Stone Front.
Sorry everyone, over here trying to multitask and screwed around and did something to the post. Heck I don't know what I did, I must have deleted it. But luckily I was able to hit the back arrow and bring it back up and rebuild it.
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BTW--What color brick did you choose?