Building a House: Frame Review

Yesterday we met with our builder and designer for our frame review. Basically this meeting was to walk through the house so far and make sure the rooms, lighting, cable, and outlets were all in the correct place and notate anything else that might not be correct before its too late to fix.

Through this process we asked anyone we met that had built a house what they did or wish they had done and multiple people said to take pictures of the walls during the frame review. I thought it sounded silly but totally makes sense now. Kevin has pictures of every wall in every room to see where wires are located in case we need to do any work later on down the road. Here are a few pictures of the interior of the house so far. Hard to really tell what things are but its more for us to look back on.

This is one corner of the kitchen where the cabinets, appliances, sink, and island will go.

here is the other side of the kitchen. The refrigerator and pantry. And the puddle is around where the island will be.

Living room. 

Master bedroom. to the left leads into the master bath

master bath which leads to master closet

downstairs bedroom

one of the guest baths

this was taken from inside the living room that doorway is the hallway to the stairs, guest bed and bath to the right and master to the left

In the original floorplan the living room had a two-story ceiling and we didn't like the thought of heating and cooling that so we made the second floor this bonus/family room where we will have the tv.

another view of the bonus room. leads out into the hallway with two bedrooms to the left and one bedroom to the right with a bathroom and stairs in the middle.

Here is the garage. we are most excited about this and how much back yard we will still have.

another garage view

outside pic of garage and back porch

front and leftside view

front and right side view. everything without siding will be the brick.

We were shocked at how much of the house was already completed. With the cold/snow weather then all the rain we had we didn't think there could have been much done but they work hard and fast on those nice days. While we were there they were putting on the roof and next up was the brick! We hope that everything continues to go as well as it has so far. We can't wait to move but also don't mind waiting to insure a well built house. 

Spontaneous Snow fun

We are in Nashville this weekend and lucky for us they got more snow. Us southerners get excited about a little snow. We didn't have snow clothes so we borrowed an outfit from my parent's neighbor. Even thought Lillian looked like the little boy from A Christmas Story she was nice and warm.

She didn't enjoy "sledding" but loved watching mommy go down in the laundry basket. 

sweet smile and little double chin

Aunt Nina fell out of the box

Nana got in on the fun too!

Our Yummy Valentines

Now that we have Lillian we don't go all out on Valentine's Day like most of the world but we do always try to do at least something extra special. This year Daddy came home from work Friday with a special surprise of fresh cut ribeye steaks and all the makings for chocolate covered strawberries and pretzels. Lillian loves to help in the kitchen and I thought it was so great that Kevin thought how happy she would be to make (and eat) these yummy treats. (The steaks were a treat for Mommy and Daddy). And of course I love any ideas that include taking pictures. 

Little sneak probably ate half the bowl of strawberries

chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate pretzel sandwich, and chocolate covered strawberry bites

Enjoying her hard work. (apparently she doesn't like pretzels so she just ate the chocolate off)

Kevin enjoyed a Valentines breakfast of Steak and Eggs and orange rolls.

And if you didn't see Kevin's instagram post, instead of flowers or candy we bought a mattress as our Vday gift. It's a memory foam mattress and after one night Kevin loves it and slept great but I tossed a lot so hopefully night two will be better. We loved our luscious pillow top but it had two dips in it from us laying in the same spot for so long so hopefully this new mattress will hold up better and be better support on our backs and hips.