Rock ROCKS!

The exterior rock is done! For those who know rock, we chose a Harristone mix of Chief Joseph and Uintah in the Cape Cod color. The rest of the exterior will be covered in a deep maroon/red board and batten except for the gables (the triangles above the front door) which will be light tan shakes. Interested to see that? Me too. We're excited!

Sheet rock ROCKS, too. Our house feels more like a house with the walls up.

Above is the kitchen: picture a sink under the middle window on the left (kitchen sink view in above picture... ladder will be removed), the gorgeous white cabinets along the sink wall, all along the back wall and continuing on the wall on the right in a desk area. In the middle of the kitchen will be the island in a dark walnut stained wood. The cooktop will be in the middle of that island facing the camera, and we'll have about 6 barstools on the other side of the island in a half circle facing the cooktop. The kitchen area will be painted in a light blue while the rest of the house will be "packing nut" (a shade of tan).

Here we have the girls' room. On the top is their bedroom-- the little cubby holes on the left are some built in 'night stands' where we'll put a shelf for their stuff. Beds will come off the wall on either side of the 'night stands', the room will be a sky blue and the ceiling white. The other picture here is taken standing in the girl's closet. It's the thing that's raised on the right. We'll figure out shelving of some sort in there, as well as along that back wall and on the left. On the bottom of the back wall we'll have a mini cabinet door covering the little opening... opening to what? Why, a fun little secret play room, of course! (it's the little room pictured here with the sloping ceilings.) Once we got the trusses on we saw there was a cool little room here, but the only was to access it was through a little crawl space (if we cut any other opening, the house might have fallen down). So we decided to make it a fun little space for the girls!

The rest of the house just looks like walls. While I love it and everything, it didn't make such great photography/blog material, so I'll get those in when there's more to show. Thanks for checking in on us!