Prime Time! {part 2}

Here are the stair panels that David designed after they were primed. I think they look wondeful. :) The stair treads are covered with wood & tape to keep from getting sprayed too.

Prime Time! {part 1}

Our painter guy has been busy, busy down at the house getting it all caulked & primed. It's amazing just what having some color in there does for the place. After years of planning for this house to be built, the paint makes it more "real" if that makes any sense. We love seeing it all come together. :)

I'm separating some of these pics to make it easier...
Here are the interior doors set up in the bedrooms, after getting sprayed with primer. They are so nice & white now! :)

Check out our grill... ;)

I meant to post this a few weeks ago but then forgot. I wanted to show you the return air grills that we're going with.

Instead of the regular metal ones, we decided to go with a wood grill. We ordered them online and they shipped them out really quickly. They remind me of Florida for some reason, like the beach themed stuff you find in all the condos down there (I don't know why!) but I think they're nice looking & they'll be easier to clean regularly versus the metal ones with the tight little openings that hold so much dust.

above is the downstairs wood return air grill... and below is a pic of the regular metal ones just for comparison...

~Ashley

Sorry that I've been MIA...

Sorry everyone that I haven't updated here in 2 weeks -- oops! :) It's been crazy busy here and I've been sick with the crud. I'm feeling much better today... hopefully it'll stay that way.


Anyway... here are some new pictures of the stairs after the panels were built last week. I honestly wasn't too sure about them at first. This was another David design that he worked very hard on getting them just right. They're very nice but I wasn't sure how it'd fit in with the character of the house. But now I love them and think they are absolutely beautiful! Go figure. ;) Enjoy!

and just think... only a few weeks ago, they looked like this pic below :)

~Ashley

Sunday morning we woke up to this!

What a treat! We rarely get snow -- if anything, we get ice! So we were so surprised to wake up Sunday morning to this beautiful treat! We drove down to the "new house" to see how it looked all covered in snow. The funny thing is that the kids had begged me to let them stay at my moms house (15 minutes away) and they woke up with only a dusting of snow -- they were in snow heaven once they got back home to see all this! :)

Below is the creek that runs beside the house... isn't it just beautiful?

And here is the opposite side of the creek across the street...
We found fresh deer tracks going across our big field...

Here's looking out across the big field... it was so bright & white!

And here's a shot from the road; my favorite little field is straight back

Below is a close-up of my fav field with the mice shed to the right... ;)

The kids had fun in it; it was beautiful to look at; now I'm officially ready for Spring! :)

New stair pictures

Well, the stairs are almost finished... here are some pictures taken just a few days ago. Actually, I will be posting even newer (all done!) pictures once David gets home with the camera. ;) But these are good shots of the actual treads & ballisters, etc. We went with a very thick, straight ballister and I love how strong they are. They're plain with a bit of farmhouse character.

Here is looking from the living room...


And now we're standing on the landing looking up to the left...
took a few steps on the landing, now looking to the right...
and we're now upstairs looking down from the hall...

We're very excited on how well they turned out. And they're very sturdy too... I don't even mind standing at the top anymore {not that I've overcome my fear of heights though!}. ha ha :) What do you think?

Oh deer!

Early Saturday morning we had 2 hungry visitors come down to eat by the driveway. :)