Bathroom, cabinets, lights

The master bath is coming together... here you see the double walk-in shower (half-tiled) and hot towel bar...

The guys from Valley Cabinet came back today to deliver the bathroom vanity, the dining table base, and Michael's work surfaces.
This will be Michael's desk... need a glass top for it... but the overall box is tall enough so Michael can return to working while standing up...
Kitchen island in place... you can start to see what this will look like with the steel baskets.
You can see a bit more of the stairwell coming together... starting to get the low voltage lights in.
This is the master closet.

Nice fall day...

So Fall is starting to come to the lake... I bet the trees and the view will look even better in the coming weeks... This is the view from our lakeside deck...

Some progress in the media room... the framing around the media rack is complete (and a couple additional decorative built in shelves now included as well)
Some of the interior doors are in...
And the flooring in the great room is about done...
And the 1000 gallon propane tank is buried.

A quiet Saturday... another Penn State win...

We spent Saturday at the house watching Penn State beat Purdue... we do not have the satellite connected yet... but as we have the internet connection in + a SlingBox - we watched the game... did the traditional grub - wings, taquitoes, fried mozzarella, beer, chips & dip... before the game we took more pictures.

This is the great room... fireplace in... painting about done here... just need to have the television wall finished (trimming the lower part) and getting the flooring down...

Kitchen island... we are using these stainless steel baskets instead of drawers / doors...
A look at the master shower... painting on the ceiling is done... lighting is in... tile already done on the floor... so just need tile on the walls...
A look at the house from the norteast corner....
And Sara wondering "How much longer???"

Paint, flooring, cabinets, septic, and fireplaces!

Wow - lots of updates... more painting complete.  This is a view of the master bedroom (the silver part of the built-in headboard on our bed... and you can see the black wall of the master closet behind that)...

More of the interior pine flooring is down...
And a look at the kitchen...
More progress on installing the cabinets...
The septic install is well underway...
And the fireplaces are getting installed... this is the wood stove in the great room (which is large enough to heat the whole house apparently)...
And a more modern gas fireplace in the master bedroom which looks nice but provides no real heat whatsover :-)

Painting, more on the kitchen island, heavy equipment

The painting is well under way... it's predominantly a mix of black and silver on the upper level (and we heard a lot of "we've never done a house like this" from the painter and the GC :-) )... the colors are looking very very nice though...

The cabinets are partially set in place (although they had to be shifted a bit to accomidate the large dining table which is coming later)...
And the excavating / septic / backfill work has resumed...

Roof and kitchen island

Roof is almost done... it's a gray color (looks even better in person!)

More roof...
Cabinets were delivered today from Valley Cabinet... 
And here's part of the finished product (before being installed)..

Doors & Tile & Floor

Shower floor for the master bath is in...

Tile in place so that the wood stove in the great room can be set....
Some flooring down (a small amount to enable the install of the fireplace in the master bedroom)... and that fridge is just temporary for now...
And the interior doors arrived on site...

HVAC, data network

Sara and Michael took the day off today to spend the entire day at the property doing some catch up things.  Much of the work was getting the cabling for the data network punched down and cleaned up. 

Meanwhile, Rommel is very excited to see the new 7.1 decoder for the media room... she's enoying it now in the hotel room as she heard these things run very warm and this is like a built-in warm cat bed.

Also good news is Frontier Communications finally got on site to put the DSL and voice lines in.  The tech from Frontier was quite impressed (or maybe it was stunned) at the size of the data network for the house.  He told he's not even seen a business infrastructure room wired so cleanly and thoroughly... I guess Michael's years of managing infrastructure in all those field sales office is paying off :-)

Also very exciting for the day was seeing the HVAC ducts get installed.  To build the industrial / loft theme in the house, we are going with full exposed stainless steel duct work through most of the house.

Hoping to see the drywall folks back on site on Wednesday to get that finished... and ideally seeing roof and septic in place end of this week / early next week.

Tape, mud, and Saturday breakfast

We spent a late Saturday morning / afternoon having breakfast... pancakes, sausage, homefries, juice, coffee... our first semi-formal breakfast in our new home... we were surprised to find this yellow truck in our driveway (and all our things missing from the garage).  We then found out that there was a guy there to do taping and mudding on the drywall.  And the stuff from the garage was moved into Michael's office as the drywall in the garage is getting finished.

The second Rinnai hot water heater is in place (one was not going to produce enough hot water).
And evidence of the taping and mudding getting finished.  This is part of the master bedroom.
Sara pondering how much longer...
The elevated platform in the media room is in place.  There will lights facing out from the steps on both sides.
Sara inspecting the operations of the cat litter box access panel.  Now we need to figure out how to get Rommel to use it.
Also have an extra beam in place in the gym to hang the heavy bag from.

Getting closer on the showers

So the concrete is finished in the shower floor...

And one of the shower panels has made it upstairs to the master bath... so hoping to see it hanging on a wall sometime soon...
More work completed in the kitchen... this area is where the double wall over will go + built in shelves for the cookbooks, microwave, etc...
Closets are getting drywalled as well...
And, on a sad note... the first damage during construction... if you look closely they even left a nice little note that a new window was already ordered :-)