Monday, September 22, 2014

Siding!!

Our siding was finished this weekend! WooHoo!!! I was so excited! We were originally going to go down on Sunday, but we couldn't wait that long, so we went down after work on Friday and just made it before the sun went down. We LOVE it! We personally think our home is the most beautiful on the street (we are a little bias I guess ... haha!).

Just a recap:

Siding: Sandy Tan
Shake/Accent siding: Pebble Clay
Shutters- Black
Door - Will be painted a bright red

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Center

Left

Close up!

Our PM updated us on Friday to let us know that the siding was done and to give us some updates on what will be happening this week.

Updates:
  • He wants to wait a couple extra days for drywall to dry (In a previous post I said our PM told us it would take 2 weeks .. apparently my boyfriend meant to say days (not weeks) when he texted me! haha! I thought 2 weeks was a little abnormal ...)
  • Trim will be added this week
  • Walls will be painted
  • Cabinets and counters will be installed
  • Flooring should be installed (since it goes under our cabinets)
  • He also wants to try and do sidewalks, the driveway, grading of the yard, and plumbing stuff
AKA .. They're doing a TON of stuff this week!

He also let us know that we already have electric set up! He was pretty excited about that because it sounds like that's normally a headache.


Trim - Found these in the garage

Kitchen counters
We also measured the two dining room windows and the powder room window for some blinds.


Other than that, we hit up the Sherwin Williams 40% off paint sale and bought about 20 gallons of paint and a bunch of painting accessories (we needed everything because we've never painted a home before since we've been in apartment!). It wasn't a pretty price tag but it was much prettier after getting 40% off (Paint was 40% off and supplies were 30% off)! Today is the last day if you're interested in the sale!

We also looked at some Refridgerators and washers and dryers.
We're in between a high-end GE (The sales guy at Best Buy said GE is one of those brands that isn't that good in the lower end models but their higher end models are really nice) and a Samsung for a fridge, and we're in between LG and Samsung for washer/dryer (I think we're leaning towards the Samsung on this one though).

Hope everyone else had a nice weekend!

6 comments:

  1. Woooooo on the paint! I printed a bunch of coupons and did seperate transactions! We got 20 gallons too. I'm so happy that we were able to get such a good deal!!

    We went with the LG washer/dryer. We had them at the old house and they were a great set. So I didn't want to tempt fate. Lol.

    The siding looks AMAZING!!! Love the colors!

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    1. Haha I printed some coupons too! Thank gosh for 40% off!

      The sales guy recommended the LG washer/dryer but we saw some reviews saying that it becomes unbalanced really easily so we didn't know what to do! We'll see!

      Thanks! I'm loving the siding!

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  2. Absolutely love your siding choices! So classic! You'll love it just as much 20 years from now!!! We've got a lot of the same stuff going on this week at our house too - our PM didn't mention that our floors would be going in, so I think that will come later for us.
    Now I need to decide ASAP if we are going to do the paint purchase - what kind did you get?

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    1. Thanks! I hope we still love it! haha! Because it's staying up there!

      For paint -
      Basement - We Cashmere in Flat since it's not a really high traffic area and it's still a washable paint.
      1st Floor - We got their Emerald paint in a Matte finish. Emerald is their most expensive paint, but it's great for high traffic area and scrubbable so we thought it was worth it.
      Garage - We got their low end Exterior paint.
      Garage floor - We got their "Shield-Crete Epoxy Concrete Floor Coating." so we won't have to worry about staining the floor or anything like that.

      The guys at the store were really helpful and kind of guided us to our choices.

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  3. Thanks for your blog. We are building a Ravenna Elev M cottage style & your color choices helped us make our decision. :-)) We are gonna go with a darker red door though. I really wish RH would offer a virtual app for Buyers!!

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  4. Thanks for your blog. We are building a Ravenna Elev M cottage style & your color choices helped us make our decision. :-)) We are gonna go with a darker red door though. I really wish RH would offer a virtual app for Buyers!!

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