Framing Begins

Today the builders started to frame the main floor of the house. Weather continues to challenge us as we get periods of rain that then freezes to everything making it extremely slick. We are hoping this Iowa winter comes to an end quickly!

GULP!!!

We received our estimate on the plumbing fixtures! GULP - guess we will start making the determination between 'like to have' and necessity. Not sure $315 for a handheld shower head is in the cards.

Plumbing Fixtures

The part of building this house that I was LEAST looking forward to was having to pick out toilets, faucets, etc. I just don't find those things exciting - they are a necessity - just not exciting. Tonight we met with Nichole at Plum Supply to pick out all of these wonderful (HA) items. The process actually went very quickly. Our builder already had picked out items and we only changed a couple of things. Pretty slick - still not exciting! Now we will wait for the price tag - gulp!

The Rush is On!

As we have grown accustomed, the Iowa weather just rears it's ugly head with very little notice! The forecast for the weekend was for snow (3-6 inches). Since we were unable to get the basement floor poured, they wanted to get the floor on the foundation before all the snow was supposed to hit. Unfortunately, there was too much work and not enough time. Here are some pictures of the crew working to put on the floor.

Kitchen Layout

Finally, we feel good about the kitchen layout. Here is a view of the layout from the dining room. Now that the layout is done, we get to narrow down the million choices for the cabinetry!

Our Super Bowl Sunday

After allowing this kitchen thing to consume us for the better part of 2 days, we decided to go to Jay's Parade Home. We wanted to get an idea of the kitchen size in that home and if we could get our minds to open up to possible ideas. After boring Sami and Jessie for 2 hours in the kitchen and great room, we think this kitchen layout will work better for us than what we had envisioned before. By not having any partial walls separating the kitchen and the great room, we can created a very open-air design that will make both rooms not only look bigger, but be better suited for entertaining. Hopefully, our thinking is correct but we will have to wait till LeeAnn lays it out on our plans to know for sure.