We have carpet!

Dad installed carpeting today in all three of the kids' bedrooms. It's a wonderfully dark tan color. I think it's perfect for a child's room. It should hide any stains nicely. 

Roll Bar "Full Throttle" is the carpet

Great Room lighting

This is the ceiling fan in the living room area of the great room. This fan is no longer for sale anymore.

The fan over the kitchen area of the great room.

Pendant light over where the sink will go. 

Flooring in the great room

Today we put down the flooring in the great room. After looking at the flooring in the master bedroom, we realized it was going to be too dark for the main living space. We went with a much lighter flooring in that area as a result.

Here is hubby putting the underlayment together. 

Great room all done. The flooring is called Chatham Oak. 

From the great room looking down the hallway.

Flooring, closets, and fans! (Oh my!)

The weekend has been a BUSY one for the house project. Not only did we paint the bedrooms, but we installing closet shelving in the kids' rooms, ceilings fans, outlets, and the flooring in the master.

Little Miss Sunshine's closet

LMS' ceiling fan

Miss Attitude's closet

Miss Attitude's ceiling fan

Little Man's closet

Little Man's ceiling fan

The flooring we chose for the master and the great room

Master ceiling fan

Paint!

Over the weekend, we painted all the bedrooms. We painted two on Friday and the other two yesterday. Today was a bunch of randomness for work.

 Little Miss Sunshine's room. It's as bright and sunny as she is.  Color is: Lemon Pound Cake

 Little Man's room. His favorite color is blue, so a blue bedroom it was! Color is: Snowdrop

 Miss Attitude's room. She wants a Minecraft theme room, so this is her base color. Color is: Cabbage Green.

Master Bedroom. We just adore the color of our one cat, so we wanted something close to his coloring. We found it. Color is: Classic Silver.

Master Bedroom primed and ready for paint!

The walls primed and windows masked off.

My Dad painting the ceiling. I love his spray gun!

More drywall installation

Yes, a DIY house rebuild takes forever. However, it also saves money. Lots of money. This is where we are currently on the drywall installation.

The hallway

Kid Room

Master Bedroom

Master Closet

Another Kid Room

Master Bathroom

The pit to the basement. This was entertaining watching the drywall be hung.

Drywall installation begins

Some of the posts I'll make are going to be primarily pictures only. This is one of them.

Part of the living room

Living room ceiling

Master Bedroom

One of the kids' rooms

Drywall was delivered

The drywall for the entire house was delivered today. It was so worth the money spent to have them deliver it and bring it into the house. Drywall is NOT light. My knees and back are thanking my wallet today.

Yes, that's all our drywall. Yes, they used a crane to bring it into the house. The entire delivery took about 45 mins. It would have taken us SEVERAL trips and SEVERAL hours to do this. Again, definitely worth the delivery fee.

As you can see, the drywall process has begun. Our first few sheets are up. These are 4x12 sheets too.

Playing catch up

It's been a while since I posted. Things have been going on at the build site, but rather than make a bunch of separate posts, I'm going to make one really big one. :)

 The insulation baffles have been put in. Attic insulation baffles are forms, typically made of cardboard or plastic, that create a gap between the attic insulation and the roof sheathing, allowing air to flow from the soffit vents into the attic itself. Baffles are secured to the roof sheathing near the eaves. They effectively prevent the attic insulation from covering the soffit vents, promoting airflow from the soffit vents across the roof sheathing to the ridge vents.

 Closets in the kids rooms have been put in as well. As you can see, we are going with swing open doors for their closets instead of sliding or bifold doors. Those styles of doors, to me, are just too easy to take off of their tracks.

 This is a view of the children's bathroom. As you can see, we went with an all-in-one bathtub/shower enclosure. This bathroom is roughly 5x11 and all three children will have to share it. We're going to be having a large vanity as well as a pantry in this bathroom.

 This is how we've been heating the house, since we don't have a working furnace, or duct work. It's an OLD Ford brand torpedo heater. This thing is older than I am, but works amazingly well.

This is the pit known as the stairwell to our basement. We currently use a large extension ladder to reach the basement. Eventually, we will be adding an L-shaped set of stairs into the basement. 

 One of our windows was put in to allow natural lite! We went with SilverLine windows by Andersen. These are double hung, double tilt vinyl windows with Low-E glass. I love them! They are also rather large in size as they are egress windows. The windows are roughly 3x5!

 Our ceiling light outlets are starting to be put in as well. If you look closely to the left of my Dad, you can see one of the recessed lights going in down the hallway. We went with 6" recessed fixtures.

 This is a shot of the walk-in closet in the Master bedroom. It's approximately 5x6 with 8 1/2 foot ceilings! I love this closet! We're planning on having a double set of rods, shelves, and other random goodies. Plus, I'm going to add a sliding barn to close it.

 This is the master bathroom. It's definitely smaller than the other bathroom at only 5x8, but hubby and I don't need a lot of space. We've lived in places with -much- smaller bathrooms. I'm just glad to have a tub in this one.

This is the rest of our windows that have yet to be installed. That cute little one in the front is our kitchen window. It's actually an impressive 3x3 window! It's going to make the kitchen so light-filled.

We have (more) interior walls (Part 2)

My Dad, Hubby's Dad, and Hubby all worked hard today in order to finish putting in the interior walls. They got them done though! It's amazing how putting in framing for walls makes it look so much more like a real house. We have a lot of bracing to put in, but next steps are plumbing, electrical, and HVAC.

 Building more walls.

 Putting the wall in place. Even Little Man had to get in the action.

 Little Man just loves being helper at the construction site. 

 Looking at the doorways for the bathroom (left) and the stairway to the basement (right)

 Building more walls!

 The kids' rooms!

The master.