It Is So Beautiful!

Have I told you how much I love my contractor, John Lunetta....I have his number if you need work done, he is the best!!! Here are my new photos... almost done!! But then we do have Emma's bath remodel and her closet construction (if we have any $$ left!!) It is beautiful!! I LOVE it!!!!

"Houston, The Kitchen Cabinets Have Landed"!

No words needed!

Photos As Promised!

Alpacas, Emma and Charlotte, Bath cabinets and granite, bath floor, wood trim stained, wood floors all re-done!

Alpacas and Sheep and Dogs, Oh My!

We are holding down the Peavey Farm, alot of work!!!
3 Alpacas, 2 sheep, 3 dogs, 6 cats (one is ours!) 1 rabbit, and 2 guinea pigs (ours) and fish! Poor Princess Cat was having a nervous breakdown, so we brought her home and locked her in the office with food, water and litter box today. She can be set free in the house about 2 pm Sunday, when the wood floors will be walkable!!
We did peak in on them today and they are beautiful!!!! 3 days, 3 sandings and 3 varnishings! We did more of a matte/satin finish instead of shiny varnish, and I love it!
Hopefully Monday they will finish the master bath tile and put in the granite! Bath floor is in and it is beautiful! Kitchen Cabinets are due in Monday too...so hopefully by Tuesday they will be being installed and template for granite being made! I can feel the end is near! Well, before we start phase 2 (emma bath remodel and closets in her room!)
But for now, enjoying the farm, with no list of a million things to do...I hear
Rudolph playing in the living room, I think I may read the paper!!
Photos Sunday, promise!

We Are Moving Out!!!!

No photos till we get back Sunday....camera is packed! But my WHOLE downstairs is EMPTY! It looks like we are moving! The wood floors are getting done Today (Thurs) thru Sat. We should be able to walk on them by Sunday afternoon! What a production though!

Tonight we are staying at the Marriott in Quincy, so I can have an easy commute into Boston for work Fri am! Then Dave and Emma will hang there, swim, eat and play till about noon. Then they are heading to our friends house, The Peaveys, who just so happen to be in the Bahamas this weekend seeing the Jonas Brothers at Atlantis! So we are the farmers/caretakers for the weekend!!

They have 3 Alpacas, 2 sheep, 6 chickens, 3 dogs, 5 cats, a rabbit and some fish! Plus we are bringing our 2 cats and the 2 guinea pigs!!! (I guess the varnish they put on the floors is pretty toxic!) I have packed my jeans and Muck boots, ready for farming and fresh eggs! Emma is going to show me how she rides the alpaca!

So check back soon, like Sunday, for wood floor photos and bath and kitchen tile photos. Cabinets and granite are going in the kitchen next week!!!!!

We Are Plastered!

Starting from the top: That box is my heater, instead of baseboards in the new addition we did 2 small ones of those! Petty cool! They will be under 2 cabinets. The next photos are all my bath tile, granite, cabinet colors, I can't wait to see it all together! The others are of my my huge closet (I have no closet space in this house, so I am psyched!) My new wood floor ( we are slated for 12/11 for 3 days of sanding and varnishing! We are moving to the Quincy Marriott for a few nights! Then some other photos to view! The next 2 weeks are going to be crazy between the wood floors finishing, paint and trim staining of everything, tile kitchen floor and our bath, cabinets, granite, and all the faucets in thekitchen and bath...I must go buy those this week! Dave is off to Chicago till Thurs night, so he will see a huge change when he gets home! More photos this week!!! Have to finalize paint colors tonight to give to painter Monday!

Spray Insulation In The Nick Of Time....Burrrrr!

Thank goodness they did the spray insulation today, the house was getting kind of chilly with no insulation in the addition, and just plastic walls up to protect us!! But it is all in, what a messy job! They even had to crawl under the crawl space under the addition outside to do the floor insulation! I hope they pay him well! Enjoy the photos! Inspection and more A/C ducting tomorrow, blue board and plaster Friday. Painting next week....yikes! The top photo is of my new desk space that is next to the fireplace in the kitchen. We decided to close it in on that side since we have so much open space!!

Addition Moving Along!

No photos this week, unless you want to see a ton of wires and pipes. This past week they did all the rough plumbing, electrical and a/c venting. Tomorrow and Tuesday we are getting inspected. Lisa and I (ok,more Lisa) picked out my granite! It of course was $$$$$$!!! Lisa and I have good taste! It is beautiful! Luckily our builder is a friend and he is getting us good deals! Thanks John!!! So hopefully this week, after the inspections, we will be getting the spray insulation done. Then comes blueboard and plaster...I will post more photos when insulation and blueboard are getting done! So all cabinets are ordered, including the bath! Just have to get granite for the bath next. We did have a small change in that we need to tile in the kitchen/work area d/t the old house is very uneven and for them to match up the wood would not have worked. There would have been a slant, so we are tiling. They can "mud up" the floor as to meet the wood, where as they cannot do that with hardwood! Have to pick that out probably tomorrow!! Dave is home tomorrow, so we may take a field trip to the tile place! Photos to be added soon, I promise!

Halloween and Spooky Boo!

Happy Halloween 2008! Emma and Charlotte went for the scary outfits this year: Emma as a Goth Bat Girl and Charlotte as a Vampire! They had a blast trick or treating (Charlotte comes to our neighborhood!) and they made out like candy bandits! We had about 75 kids at least this year!! I ate way to many tiny candy bars!!! Then our friend Clarke found a baby kitten at his job, and we took this one in since they now have 5 cats! He found her on Halloween, she is all black with a little white on her belly! We named her Spooky Boo MacCutcheon! She (or he, we are not sure yet!) is the cutest. Already litter box trained, sleeping thru the night and eating kitten formula from a bowl. She also likes wet food! She is little piggy!

My Kitchen is Gonna Be HUGE!

I am so excited, my new kitchen is going to be so nice! It is double the size of my old one!! Cabinets were ordered today, 3 weeks they should be in...we had to do some minor changes since we went $6000 over budget on them (like not glaze them, that saves $3000 right there!) Yikes! Both us and the builder under-estimated the amount cabinets! Next week the plumbers, HVAC, electricians come and then spray insulation will be starting! Our new bath upstairs is going to be great! That is all framed and blue boarded out and the new big shower is all framed out! Here are some photos of the old kitchen looking into the new area and vice-versa! Then once this part is done we move onto the upstairs hallway bathroom remodel and then build closets and storage in Emma's room! But so far so good! My builders are great, John is a good friend of ours, so that makes it easier!!! Check back soon for more updates!