5 Days and Counting!

Five days from right this very minute (it's 9:24pm), we'll be living in our new house! We're happy dancing and cheering! This weekend, the electricians worked to put up the light fixtures, hook up outlets and switches, etc. They're not done yet, but here are some of our faves.

The foyer light. It's a drum shade--love this pretty thing.

And a more real-life size for you.

If you stand in the foyer and look towards the back of the house, you'll get this view (minus all the stuff once we move in!):

The kitchen island leading into the dining area.  And look at the gorgeous girl hanging over that dining nook! Here's a couple more shots of this fixture--our absolute favorite in the house.

Looking at the dining area from the other side of the island.

A close up.  So gorgeous!

No photos of the recessed lights in the living room or kitchen area--those are just your ordinary recessed lights.  Same with most of the other lights in the house--nothing special.  But here's the master with the ceiling fan/light installed

It's nice looking, for a ceiling fan, don't you think? We will actually be installing a few fixtures ourselves because the cost for the electricians to do it was insane.  So we'll hang the ceiling fans in the kids' bedrooms and the office.  We'll also be hanging the pendant lights over the island once we're moved in.  

As for other things happening with the house, well, some of the painters' things have been cleaned up. No more plastic covering most of the windows or the trim, but there's still a lot of "stuff" all over, as you can probably see from these photos.

Stuff everywhere! So hard to walk around!

At least we can show you what the kitchen cabinets are starting to look like, with some of that junk out of the way.

I love how these are turning out--just the way I'd pictured in my mind.  Yay!  Same thing for the fireplace--adore it!

However, the painters still have some cutting in to do around ceilings, as well as lots and lots of touch up work to be done.  The electricians need to finish their stuff.  We still don't have any plumbing fixtures (toilets, sinks, faucets, etc). The counters in the bathrooms and laundry room need to be installed.  All of the closets still need to have the shelving put in.  And there are about a million other details to do (like putting the doors back on, putting up the railings, putting on the cabinet door hardware, etc.).  The carpet is being installed on Tuesday.  We have our final walk-through on Wednesday. And, oh yeah, did I mention we're moving in on Friday, which is in 5 days? This house better be ready because we're moving in no matter what!