The Final Countdown

Man oh man! I seriously cannot believe that this is moving week.  I am currently sitting in my bedroom that is missing two bookshelves, a chair, a table, and 90% of my closet.  It is beyond crazy that we are leaving this house so soon.


As you can imagine, we are in crunch time at both houses.  Our AMAZING workers have been putting in some insane hours in order to get the house ready.  Technically to get a living/residency permit (I used to know what it's called), you just need to have ONE functioning bathroom and a functioning kitchen.  As of now, we don't really have that, but by Friday when we get the occupancy permit (YES! Remembered it!) that will be done.  The workers will probably be at the house around two weeks after we move in finishing up some final things.  The basement is definitely not done, but it's a non-essential of us to move in.


Here are a bunch of random pictures from this past weekend and today.  Lots of little things are being finished, as well as a few big things.  

The kitchen faucet.

This is the little landing coming in from the garage.  It has tile and grout now.

This was from last week I guess. This is the start of the patio.  There is another picture of it later on that I took today (6/5).

The powder room floor. There is another updated picture from 6/5 later on.

The "stage" where the new fire place will be. Again, there is another picture from 6/5 later on.

The front room got painted! Tucker was really excited.

The master bedroom got painted too. It's a really pretty shade of blue.

The floor in the master bath.  The floors are heated...just in time for those nice, cold St. Louis summers.

The awesome master bath shower. It's much further along now and looks AMAZING!  I forgot to take another picture of this, but there will be one up shortly.

It's really hard to see in this picture, but this is the vanity for the upstairs bathroom.  Black wood bottom and a white marble top.

The floors in the upstairs bathroom. I think they're slate? I could be making that up.

The upstairs shower turned out so cool. I LOVE the black grout!

The upstairs used to be lined with closets, this is what remains.

I may have posted this photo or a similar one already, but this is the garden bed underneath the dining room window.

The view of the patio from the yard. The patio will actually have two levels when it is completed.

My new rug! I like it a lot. Surprisingly we got it at Home Goods.  That place is going to be dangerous when I move out.

The electrician came on Monday, so now we have really exciting things like outlet covers.

And light switches! No more sticking two wires together for lighting. It's the little things.

The fireplace in the front room. It's actually a gas fireplace, we just had new "logs" and a new door put in.

Evidently I should have taken a close up of this. This is the new wood stove. It's pretty awesome.  Grandpa always had a wood stove in his back room, and we really wanted to use his, but because of new fire codes/restrictions, it would have needed to be ridiculously far from the wall.  So we got a new one instead.

The powder room.  That's beadboard on the bottom.

The back room got painted today. It's a neat shade of yellow. I think it's called White Raisin. How do you get to be the person who comes up with the names of paint colors? I want that to be my next job.

The sink and cabinet.

Remember that patio wall I showed you earlier in this post? Yeah, this is it now.  They filled it in with gravel and eventually concrete will be poured on top of this.

In order to get started on the next layer of the patio (which has to be done before the concrete can be poured), all the dirt has to go away.  The backyard is going to look so weird when that's gone!

That's all the pictures for now.  I'm sure there will be lots more in the next few days.  Hopefully I can get another post up before the move, but I make no guarantees.  Our house is quickly becoming more and more empty.  It's kind of strange. The front room echoes right now.  My room is mostly packed or at the new house.  I'm house sitting for my boss starting Thursday, so I'm trying to get all my stuff moved over there before then so that there is less to do Friday and Saturday.  We'll see how that actually goes!