Just a quick entry to note that we had the closing with the Bank yesterday, so everything with the funds is set to go. There has to be some changes made over the weekend to some of the final plans by BVB, and then the township will approve the building permit for the house! Here's to hoping that there will be a hole in the ground next week and the foundation will get going!!

Flooring and some lights

This past Tuesday Jess and I went shopping with Betty to nail down our flooring choices and move onto lighting selections. We were really eager to see how hard it was going to be to try to update the kitchen and nook flooring to the vertical Bamboo flooring that we really wanted. It ended up that we ditched the french door setup on the nook in exchange for a normal wooden sliding door and took that credit and with it were able to get the Bamboo flooring in the Kitchen, Nook area, and even in the Dining room! We also were able to upgrade our foyer to multi-colored slate in exchange for the pergo style stuff we had in our contract so were really excited that we stepped it up on the flooring downstairs, its going to be make the whole house become a lot nicer. Carpet was also picked out within about 20 minutes on the same day, we got the normal mocha colored carpeting style throughout the house where it gets carpet. Our stairs are Oak, so we wont be getting any carpet on those.



Tile was up next and Betty took us to a new place since we couldn't really pick something at the first place we really liked. Were getting the tile in the master bathroom, on the floor, the jet tub and were getting a tiled walk in shower. The shower tile is a bit darker than the flooring/jet tub tile. The picture of both are here, but they will both have different sized tiles but the same style. They will be bigger on the bottom seperated by a deco tile strip and then smaller on top.



After we picked out the flooring we grabbed a bite to eat and moved on to Stokes electric. The lights actually weren't that difficult to pick out since we (read Jess) knew the style that we were going for. We got some modern lights mixed with Tiffany style lights, should be sweet. I wish I took more pictures while I was there but for some reason I didnt, we looked through some books and saw some of them right in front of us in the showroom. Were basically at our budget on the lighting now but will end up going a bit over because were going to get a bunch of recessed lighting, oh well. The picture below is of the lights we will have hanging over the island where people can sit to eat and chill.




As of today our septic permit is done, our grading plan is approved, the building permit is being reviewed and will hopefully be approved this week (they only have 15 days from the 19th of March to get it done which is nice.) Our construction loan/mortgage closing is scheduled for the 27th of March, so were on schedule for a late March/early April start, cant wait!!