Colors chosen and more

Fast Freddy is still working...

Now the fireplace is trimmed out. We still need to fire up the Jotul before we move in. I hate that it got dust all over it during the trim process but it will be vacuumed and recovered in plastic when it comes time for painting.

The much anticipated decision: interior paint colors! Sharing the colors I've chosen for the inside of the house feels a little like sharing the name of a child before it's born. With both of our boys, we opted to wait until they were born before we named them. But in this case of building a house, it makes sense to go ahead and share the colors we have picked out (after a long time of looking at so many different shades of tan and gray!).

So without further ado, our picks (Benjamin Moore colors):

Left to right:

• Lewiville Green (for the laundry room and bathrooms except the downstairs half-bath)
• Hazy Skies (for the majority of the downstairs living space, including kitchen, living room, dining room, guest bedroom, hallway, stairway. And the upstairs landing). This is the sample you see painted beside the woodstove in the picture above.
• Coastal Path (for the master bedroom, half bath, and two upstairs bedrooms).

Two doorknobs have been installed--the exterior ones! And note that the doors are in the correct locations now :o)

My 2 1/2 year old took a few pictures. This one is from one of the front windows, looking into the living room and back to the dining room.

Another Levi picture...up close with the HardiePlank. I love how it looks just like wood!

Our brick chimney.

Back to my pictures...we also have leaf guard gutters now. The original drawings of this house have exposed rafter tails but we decided to go with the gutters to shield us from downpours when we walk up on the front porch! It's raining right now and I wish I could hear the drops hitting our tin roof. Soon! Soon!

And Ashley is still grading the land. It's amazing how the yard has transformed with a few days of dirt moving.

View from the kitchen side of the house. The yard is much more level (dirt was moved from the back to the front to make this possible).

And what better way to celebrate this week than receiving our first tank of gas (and the accompanying bill).

Other things on tap this week...Freddy is finishing up (we hope); the plumber came out yesterday to go over a few things with Perry; the granite countertop installers came and measured; and we're finalizing our lighting and fan order. Whew!