Friday, November 18, 2011

Sooooo close.....

Okay, so I think at this point, the Septic guys think I'm a complete psycho (and the LC building dept may be right behind them in that thought!)  I've been stalking my builder and the septic peeps for the status on the design for about a week and a half now. Fortunately, I think they finished up everything 3 days early!!  Of course, they probably rushed through it so they'd get rid of me.  And, frankly, I'm fine with that! So, that's good news!  The design is now with the LC health department, and once they say "ok", we should have a building permit within 24 hours.   Well, at least that's what the lady at the building dept told me as I hovered over her shoulder the other day looking at the status of my permit application.  Fortunately, the building department has approved everything, and they are just waiting for septic to say ok.  Since neither department seems too busy right now, I'm hoping the design is good and we can start digging the week after Thanksgiving!

My builder is getting things moving as well.  We "slipped in" a huge truck on the property today to begin creating the driveway.  Not sure if that was allowed, but if asked, I don't see any trucks out there now, so I don't know what anyone is talking about!  The driveway is carved out and I think they are going to try to get the parking area in front of the garage as well as the circular drive created as well.  It's a loonnng driveway - a bit over 350 feet, so getting the space for the real trucks to get back there is needed.  This way we can start digging & hauling dirt once we get the permits are squared away.

So, I continue to pick out plumbing fixtures, cabinetry and close out designs on the house.  Getting all this done before we even start building should leave me plenty of time to stalk my builder when we are finally moving along with the house!

Here's a sneak peak at the 2 color combo options I'm debating between for the kitchen....





Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Still waiting for permits.....

So we are still waiting for the septic permit to be completed.  We ended up bumping the house over about 10 feet last week so that we could put the tanks on the side of the house.  Now we are just waiting on the grading, design and permits to be completed.

In the meantime, I have a few more designs completed for the inside of the house. 

Boys Study Area

The boys have a small loft area near their bedrooms upstairs, and we decided to put a built-in desk there along with small couch, etc.  Here's the desk with shelves...it will be a black weathered finish, which I think will look great with the reclaimed wood floors!  And then a couple shelves above with a cork board (or something to put up a calendar, reminders, etc)




Family Room

We've been round and round on what to do with the family room fireplace.  I finally found a picture of a room to model everything after.

Here's the link to the picture...

http://www.houzz.com/photos/193103/Crisp-Architects-traditional-family-room-new-york

And, here's the drawing for our family room.  There will be rough wood beams for the trim and across the ceiling (similar to pic) and then the wainscoting throughout the room to match the wainscoting in the foyer/hallways.


Kitchen/Family Room Desk Area

So, this space started as a built in desk, changed to a closet, and is now a desk in a closet!  Actually, I think it will be a really cute space.  Just big enough to check emails, drop "junk" but not be in clear sight.  And, it will have this great barn door to slide shut when needed!





Basement Bar

Again, another space we've gone round and round on.  The designer had this fantastic idea to do a stone wall in the basement.  So, we'll have that, with a closet and refrigerator on either side of the back bar...and then the front bar in the same rustic oak cabinetry.   Here's a 3D shot of the bar...



And here's the shot of the back bar wall...




I forgot to mention last time that the Dining Room paneling is actually going to be built-in closets, too.  So, the wall will appear as thought it's just a paneled wall, but there will actually be doors/storage behind them.  Hope it turns out!