Choices, Part I
The four of you that read this blog are going to be SO sick and tired of hearing about the house by the time it's all finished. And probably after it's finished, because we'll still be busy making the lawn pretty and putting in that garden that I just started seeds for...you know, because we have nothing else going on, I think that I'll grow some pumpkins this year.
Anyway, backtracking. Hans pulled in on Friday and was done by lunchtime, so I picked him up and we met Joycey-Baby at the new house. Joycey-Baby is our realtor and I call her that because I swear my Grandpa Fritz had a lady friend and called her Joycey-Baby...so every time I say Joyce, I hear him saying "Joycey-Baby".
Weird, weird tangent. I know.
Anyway, Joyce met us at the house and I really wish I had gone in first and had the camera trained on Hans' face when he got his first look at the mess. Priceless. But I think that by the time we left, I had him convinced that it's going to be good. Maybe not 100%, but 85% convinced. We'll get there as the work progresses.
They started in earnest today and hope to be done before the deadline of 4/30. As with all flips, they want to get out from under the mortgage payment as soon as possible. I am praying for a slightly earlier date as well, since it will be tight with closing on 4/30 and us out of this house all on the same day.
Spent the weekend picking out paint colors. We get a nice neutral throughout, so I picked "Buff" as our general wall color. All trim to remain white.
Kitchen cabinets will be dark cherry and countertops will be St. Cecilia granite--I went to the factory today and picked my sheet of granite--an interesting experience. The different varieties of stone out there are incredible. The company had a couple of sheets in their showroom that cost upwards of $65K per sheet. I'm thinking St. Cecilia is probably more on the "bargain" end of the granite spectrum. Can you imagine spending that kind of money on countertops? Yikes!
Kitchen color will be "Silvermist", kind of a pale blue-gray-greenish.
Master bedroom will be "North Star", a pale slate blue and homage to our home state.
Annika also chose a pale blue, "Iceberg" for her room.
Oh, and I got to choose the front door color--it will be "Stolen Kiss", a dark cherry red.
So...those are the choices we have had to make thus far and they have been relatively easy. I had four granites and four cabinet finishes to choose from. I knew I wanted a red front door and Annika had chosen her wall color. So far, so good.
Next up: floor tile for the kitchen and probably carpet for the third floor bedroom. Oh, and plumbing fixtures and drawer/cabinet pulls for the kitchen. I could see, in our HOUSE TO END ALL HOUSES how one could get sucked down the million different varieties of products out there and (a) have trouble deciding; and (b) spend thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Anyway, backtracking. Hans pulled in on Friday and was done by lunchtime, so I picked him up and we met Joycey-Baby at the new house. Joycey-Baby is our realtor and I call her that because I swear my Grandpa Fritz had a lady friend and called her Joycey-Baby...so every time I say Joyce, I hear him saying "Joycey-Baby".
Weird, weird tangent. I know.
Anyway, Joyce met us at the house and I really wish I had gone in first and had the camera trained on Hans' face when he got his first look at the mess. Priceless. But I think that by the time we left, I had him convinced that it's going to be good. Maybe not 100%, but 85% convinced. We'll get there as the work progresses.
They started in earnest today and hope to be done before the deadline of 4/30. As with all flips, they want to get out from under the mortgage payment as soon as possible. I am praying for a slightly earlier date as well, since it will be tight with closing on 4/30 and us out of this house all on the same day.
Spent the weekend picking out paint colors. We get a nice neutral throughout, so I picked "Buff" as our general wall color. All trim to remain white.
Kitchen cabinets will be dark cherry and countertops will be St. Cecilia granite--I went to the factory today and picked my sheet of granite--an interesting experience. The different varieties of stone out there are incredible. The company had a couple of sheets in their showroom that cost upwards of $65K per sheet. I'm thinking St. Cecilia is probably more on the "bargain" end of the granite spectrum. Can you imagine spending that kind of money on countertops? Yikes!
Kitchen color will be "Silvermist", kind of a pale blue-gray-greenish.
Master bedroom will be "North Star", a pale slate blue and homage to our home state.
Annika also chose a pale blue, "Iceberg" for her room.
Oh, and I got to choose the front door color--it will be "Stolen Kiss", a dark cherry red.
So...those are the choices we have had to make thus far and they have been relatively easy. I had four granites and four cabinet finishes to choose from. I knew I wanted a red front door and Annika had chosen her wall color. So far, so good.
Next up: floor tile for the kitchen and probably carpet for the third floor bedroom. Oh, and plumbing fixtures and drawer/cabinet pulls for the kitchen. I could see, in our HOUSE TO END ALL HOUSES how one could get sucked down the million different varieties of products out there and (a) have trouble deciding; and (b) spend thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Buff, Silvermist, North Star, Iceberg and Stolen Kiss on top (obvs)
