Color me happy

This week marked another eventful week at the Younker house. We have color on the walls! And trim! And doors! Not to mention stained wood in some places as well.

Ted and I opted to have painted interior doors and trim instead of stained (see pictures below). It was cheaper. And we liked the look (don’t get me wrong, would love stained doors and trim like the early 1900 homes, but corners needed to be cut somewhere…maybe someday we’ll win that lottery…or maybe in the next house!) I’m not really sure what the name of the color is, but was told it was a “pearl” type color. So it’s not white. More like an ivory. It’s beautiful. As beautiful as doors and trim can be.

In a previous post I talked about the paint choices we made for our home. And this week we got to see them in person! I have been really scared of the grey and how it would turn out. Grey is a hard color. You can get a blue grey, a purple grey, a brown grey, a green grey. I wanted grey. Just grey. So we went with Sherwin Williams Pewter Cast for the living room, stairwell, hallway and one of the bedrooms. And. I. Love. It.

Up next was the kitchen. We had a lot of grey elements in the kitchen (sink, counters, and appliances), so we weren’t sure we wanted the entire kitchen to be grey since there was already so much grey in it. So we opted for Sherwin Williams Stolen Kiss. And it turned out great next to the Pewter Cast.

Next we decided what color we wanted in our room, the hall bathroom and the other bedroom (aka my office). We opted for something neutral, so we went with Sherwin Williams Mexican Sand. What I wouldn’t give to be out of this Nebraska winter and in the Mexican sand right now.

The next three pictures really are all the same color. The lighting makes a big difference in all three.

And last but not least, the laundry room and master bathroom. We wanted to go with blue, because it’s one of our favorite colors. We were envisioning a slate blue type color. So we picked Sherwin Williams Resolute Blue.  Holy brightness!!!! Needless to say, blue is hard to pick out. Because what we got is exactly what we told them, but going off a small swatch of color to an entire room of it is two completely different things. It’s going to take some adjustment…but I think we’ll learn to like it. And if not…it’s paint so it can always be repainted right?!?

       

       

The camera makes it look more mild than it is in person. I am learning to love it…or at least warm up to it. I’m sure with the fixtures, accessories and mirrors in it’ll help transform the room. And if not…well, I’ll either deal or go to the paint store!!

And because this post is all about color…here is the start of our stair rail…it’s looking so good!!!! We wanted this stained to match our cabinets. It’s a little darker than I imagined, but I’m hoping with the lighting fixtures in the house it’ll help even them out.

Coming up next: countertops, exterior stone and hopefully interior stone for the fireplace. Also the deck railing will hopefully be installed so I’m not afraid to go on our deck!!

 

What a week it's been!!

Ted and I were extremely pleased with the progress this week. We haven't seen much progress on the inside of the house since mid-October when they finished dry-walling, so we've been a little frustrated. The heartache joys of building, I guess.


We've been working since then on getting the rooms tiled that needed to be and we are almost done with that. Our master bathroom is taking longer than we thought, but when it's dark at 5:30 it doesn't leave much time for progress to be made on the weeknights and weekends are usually full of things to get done. Luckily we are almost finished with the master bathroom...hopefully next weekend we will be all done. (hopefully).

On Monday, the 2nd, we met with Justin, the trim carpenter. We discussed the shelving that we wanted in the pantry, linen closet and the bedroom closets.

Our master bedroom walk in closet inspiration:

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HA! Yea right! This is the closet that Big built for Carrie...what I wouldn't do for a closet like that. Unfortunately I'd probably go bankrupt trying to fill it!!! (If you do not know who I'm referring to, you really need to watch Sex and the City :))

This is actually the real closet inspirations:

Our master bedroom will have this type of shelving on all three walls Source

The closets in the two spare rooms (Source)

We also discussed with Justin what our locker in the mudroom will look like. This is what we are going for:

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Justin started working on the trim and doors on Monday. When I got to the house at 3:30 that day to discuss our plans for the shelving I could hear the air gun blasting away as he hung up trim. It was music to my ears because it meant things were finally happening in the Younker house again.

In the past week we've had the stone delivered. Both the stone for the exterior of our home and for our fireplace. Here they are:

Stone for the fireplace - Sunset Ledgestone

Stone for the exterior - Blackhorse

And the biggest excitement for us this week - - - - the cabinets are IN!!!

I will apologize in advance for the photos. By the time we arrived at the house, the sun was setting, so the limited lighting in the house made for some poor quality of photographs.  But regardless, I snapped away with excitement.

Laundry room/Mudroom

Laundry room/Mudroom

The kitchen

The kitchen (that's Ted checking out the pantry)

Close up of our cabinets. I love them. The color is mocha

Close up of our island

Hall bathroom

Hall bathroom

Master bathroom

Ted's vanity

Our linen closet

My vanity (yes I get the bigger vanity :))

 And our doors are in!!! Here is a pic of our master bedroom door. They will be painted later to match the trim throughout the house.

Our pantry shelving is the only shelving that is done as of right now. The rest will be finished next week hopefully. I don't think we are going to have a problem finding storage space in this bad boy.

I love the pantry door. It's a frosted glass door. It is going to look great once it's stained to match the cabinets.

Ted, my dad and I also put up our mantel over the weekend. I LOVE how our mantel turned out. We ordered the wood from a reclaimed wood supplier out in Utah. Then we had our good friend Ross stain it and round the edges. Ross is a carpenter and has all the tools that we don't so we really appreciated him doing this for us. He did a fantastic job!

Our fireplace

Close up of the mantel. And we tested a strip of stone on it just to get the feel of it all!!

This coming up week we are hoping to see even more progress. The wood floors will be going in, as well as the trim carpenter will be continuing working on our closets and mudroom.  I'm hoping to see the fireplace stone and exterior stone up soon (I can't wait to see what the exterior stone and siding looks like together). And if all goes well the painters may come towards the end of the week as well. So we are trucking right along, my friends.

And yes, I have begun my countdown. 42 days!! :)

Thank you all for your kind words regarding our house and this blog. I appreciate them all so much. And thank you for all the support and assistance we have received from our family and friends. We can not express how much it means to us to have you there during this exciting time in our lives. And we can not wait for it to be finished so we can share it with all of you when we have our big house warming party next spring.

Until next time!!

We have doors! And trim! And a driveway! :)

More changes coming to the Younker house!! Our doors came in as well as the trim. They are just waiting to be installed. We are hoping that the trim carpenter is coming next week to start on everything. In fact, we have meeting with him Monday at 3:30 pm to discuss our plans for our closets and pantry and locker for the mudroom.


Our doors and trim waiting to be installed. I can’t wait to see what they look like on the walls!!!


Ted and I also started tiling the master bathroom. So far it looks awesome. I’m in love with the tile we selected.

Here it is as we started dry-fitting the tile.


Here it is grouted and dry. I LOVE it.
As we were laying the tile, two men showed up and dry walled our garage ceiling. They were done in no time at all.


Last but not least, we have a driveway, walkway and patio!!! They also came and graded our lot to even out the ground…it made a big difference.


Our patio!!





Our driveway!! The rest will have white rock (see below)


The walk way and steps to the house



The driveway!!!


The lot all nice and graded/leveled out.



Love how everything is coming together. The last thing we need for the exterior is our stone, which hopefully will be soon!

Next week we are hoping to continue tiling the master bathroom. We will be working on the shower since the front and back of the tub will need to wait until the cabinets are installed (hopefully soon).

EXCITING NOTE: We were given the green light to lock in everything. Estimated closing date is January 153, 2014….one month more than we originally were told, but that means approximately 48 days left in this apartment!!!! Woo Hoo!!