Looking more and more like a house!

Things have been happening fast over the past couple of weeks with the outside of the house. They finished the siding, stone and deck, which we are really excited about! We can't believe how much this is staring to look like our house...the one we have been picturing since the day we bought our dirt!

Here are some pictures of the outside as it has progressed over the last couple of weeks.

Here are some pictures of the deck. I can't wait to get a little patio set for it and hang out on it during the summer. Of course, by the time we move in it will be chilly, so we will have to wait until next summer to really enjoy it...go figure!!!

Siding the house. The whole siding process maybe too four days. It looked like really hard, tedious work, but I was surprised on how quickly they got it done.

Prepping for the stone.

Putting on the stone! I love it! We are the only ones in the neighborhood to pick this stone color and shape. We are both really happy with how it turned out.

Of course I had to get us to pose with the "sold" sign!

 

SOLD!!!

This weekend we finalized all of the electrical outlets and lights in the house. That was not so fun for us. By the end of it, I wanted to tell the builder to just add in plugs and lights where the hell he wanted! But we stuck it out. Stuff like that is less fun to me. We also picked out our appliances, which was in Boston...I mean really??? Boston? We were not thrilled about driving into the city, but we had fun picking out the fridge, stove, dishwasher etc. I love a stainless steel appliance! Next weekend we have to pick out tile for the bathrooms and actual light fixtures for the house. We did do a lot of recessed lighting, but the bedrooms and dining area will need fixtures. We walked briefly into the lighting store on Saturday, looked at hanging lights for about 2 minutes and then walked out. I think we were beat down from appliance shopping, so we threw in the towel on lights for this weekend. Fail! Next weekend we will get it over with. I can't be the only one that thinks light stores are ridiculously annoying? I mean how many fixtures can you shove onto the ceiling before they all start blending together? I just need a catalog PLEASE.

We have 2 months to go! But who is counting. ;)