House has been painted!

Here are some pictures from the front and back of the house:





If you look closely, you can see the black fence and concrete pad at the back of the house.

We are unsure about the back still. The red that is there seems a little random...so we are thinking about painting the pillars (red inside with the beige border). We are thinking that this would then add more colour to the back and continue the red down to the lower level. Any opinions?

We've been in the house for over 6 months!

It's hard to believe that we've been in the house for over six months! The time has flown by. Initially it was simply crazy. It was so busy trying to unpack everything, some boxes that hadn't been opened for over 8 years, other boxes that had been in storage for over 2 years! And both Preston and I were working full time, and the Christmas season is busy for both of us! Plus we had numerous parties after we moved in and both our families came to our place for Christmas!

The following are a number of photos from the past six months:

Our living room before furniture, on the day we received the keys:




Preston, me and our house builders in our living room! We still talk to them and see them every so often, as there are still things to finish up!




Here's a picture of the house from the front with the concrete sidewalk/ramp completed. Because it was winter when the siding was put up, the house has not been painted. In fact as of today (June 18) it still has not been painted. I will take pictures and post them when that has been completed. I think it will make a huge difference!




And here are some shots of the inside at Christmas time. The dining room, stairway with paintings, kitchen (with Kate, Dillan and Joel and then Ian) that look into the great room:









There are many things happening again, now that I have time and can be around the house to let people in and to make phone calls! A few days ago the concrete pad (off the walk-out basement door) was poured...so now we can go out the basement door (before it was a drop to wet soil!) Yesterday we had the flooring folks in to fix a small section of the floor that had buckled a little. Today the house builders were by to measure for decorative shutters that are going to go on the front (dining room windows), he was also checking the concrete pad. Then we had a couple of people here fixing the elevator door in the garage (Preston is having problems closing the door properly). There are people from the Sage Creek development who are building the open fence that marks the back of our property (and divides our property from the walkway). Finally there is a guy from the gas company who is attaching our BBQ gas line to our new natural gas BBQ. I think I will take pictures of all these things in the next few days and get it posted to the site.

That's it for now!