So here is what has been suggested as the best option for our house. The appliances are all stainless steele as in the picture (stove will be in island not counter). The cupboards would be an off white with no antique and the island would be a cinnimon color (same style though).

Thoughts?

I will gladly cook anyone supper who can identified these items displayed below :)

This first picture is the color of our granite counter tops - tan/brown

This second picture is the kitchen floor tile on the left and our hardwood (for the living room) on the right.






















This fourth picture is the color and style of cabinets I would like to go with. The style is Shaker (flat door with a flat trim around the edge.) There will be no glass in the doors anywhere. The color is an off-white (would be the same as all the trim in my house).


















Iam polling the general audiance for opinions. Some feel that white makes it look too "cheap" others think it makes it look "open and clean".

The floor plan of the house means that when you walk in the front door you basically can stand in the living room and look all the way across the main floor to see the kitchen and island.

Other options that have been expressed is to do a cinnamon color to make it feel warm. Or a mocha (dark brown) to match the countertop.

You can click on any of the images to enlarge them. Please vote at the poll on the top left of this page.

Each little bit counts

I have not posted in quite I while, I am aware. However, each day only a little progress on the house has been made and I did not feel there was enough progress to post.

Then I decided to log on to see when the last time I posted was - I noticed that there has inface been A LOT of progress made since my last pictures!

So here we go: we're done framing, and completely passed our framing inspection (thank you Gary!);

we've got windows upper and ground level (dad is putting the finishing touches on the basement ones);

we have stairs going BOTH up and down (we only had up for several days); and we've got roofing!

It's a house!

It almost looks like a house!

The framers are making great progress. Every morning at ten to seven they are here unloading their tools; they have been faithful in working through wind, rain, and sun. They are just finishing up the second floor today and tomorrow should start the trusses on the roof!

I know the pictures just make the house look like a maze of 2x4s. This picture is standing in theback of the house on the main floor looking out the front picture window.




Here you are standing on the east side of the main floor looking at the stair well and the back bathroom. Where I am standing take the picture is where my kitchen will be and the window to the right will be my kitchen sink.



Look out the front again.




This is standing on the second story looking down the stair well. The framers in Sask don't actually build their own stairs. They get a special guy to come in and measure the openings and then goes and makes them at his shop - ships them here and tacks them on. Seems like more work than just building them on site.... prairie folk...

This day didn't make as much a difference :s

What a difference a day can make!

What a difference one day can make! I left for school this morning and all we had was a flat - level - uninteresting house; when I got home today we had WALLS!

The view is from the back of the house standing in the middle of the yard. The jut out on the left is where the main floor bathroom will be and the window on the right is my kitchen window - so I can watch the puppies play all day long.

The boys were having a little fun and decided to through up one of the second floor walls just to see how tall it was going to be. Yes, everyone was right, it is going to tower over the neighbours!

I know that I have not been updating this blog as often as some people would like. School has started again! I am working (although I have been there only four hours this week). And now to boot I'm sick! Oh well. In all of that blog and email have fallen to the way-side. Also, to this point significant little has happened on the house in the past week. Inspection and pouring of the basement floor. After that dad has been earning his keep digging a ditch in the great Saskatchewan dirt - if anyone wants to really harass Kim on his trip home (next week) please bring up the topic of how much you love the soft, rich soil of B.C. :) He used a shovel, axe, and some other instruments to dig his ditch at the rate of approximately 5 feet in two hours (that's slow when you have to go 30 feet.

The next few weeks should be interesting development on the house so I will try to post at least a pictures each day.

Los Cabos anyone?

We had to dig a tunnel through our pile of top soil to burry our electrical line. Dad took the liberty of creating art while on the job.


This is the basement.

These are my dogs sun tanning in the dirt.

This is at the start of day one framing.

This is at the end of day one framing. We have our bomb shelter back!