Weekend with the family

Thanks, Mom for the following guest post and blowing my cover. Okay, so I don't work on the house EVERY weekend, but Adam was there picking up my slack.



Here we are at Bahama Breeze.....Stacy came in for the weekend....We had a fun time....We started off the day with an hour at Jazzercise.....the girls could barely keep up with their mama (yeah, whatever)....and then off to lunch(the fish tacos were crazy good) and then shopping at the mall(I actually bought a bathing suit.....)...Does it get any better than that?....I think not!

Plumbing & Window Sills

There has been a lot going on at the Harris house the past couple weeks.

The foyer and master bath tile have been grouted. Here is the foyer. We also sealed the grout, which should keep it protected.

Here is the Master shower & tub, complete with shower heads. This has grout, but I’m not quite finished with the caulking around the edges/corners. We are getting pricing for a glass enclosure.

Here’s our water heater. We have our electrical final scheduled for tomorrow. We needed the water heater installed for this inspection.

Our kitchen – notice the tile is not covered up and the faucet is installed. We also have the garbage disposal hooked up.

Our dishwaster . . . just kidding, Mom. Thanks for helping out this weekend, Mom & Dad.

Okay, here’s our real dishwasher, hooked up and ready to wash.

Let me show you the rest of our plumbing fixtures:

Double sink in the Jack & Jill Bathroom.

Under one of the sinks. We have to fix the toilet in this bathroom and then we should be ready for the final plumbing inspection.

The vanity and toilet all finished in the Hall Bath. These are now functional and we got our portolet hauled away – yippee!

The Master Bath Sink – this is one of two and the faucets are goosenecks, which is fun.

Master Toilet

We also finished the door going to the toilet room. This door gave us quite a bit of trouble, but it’s all fixed now.

The window sills are all in – thanks for helping us out, Nels!

Guest Bedroom. We kept the edges long in case we ever want to add casing around the windows later.

Dining Room. We ran the sills across double windows to make one large sill.

Our fireplace. This has been installed for awhile now, but it’s been covered up until recently. The hood in the bubble wrap inside goes over the blank spot above the doors.

There was a lot of painting and caulking completed this weekend too. Thanks to Adam’s dad for helping us out so much!! Up next: dirt and concrete for the front yard.

Tile & Plumbing

We finished laying the tile in the Master Bathroom and the Foyer. I think it turned out great. They both still need to be grouted, but hopefully that will be taken care of soon. Now, the only remaining tile is a small patch in front of the fireplace. We’re happy to have it almost done. Check out our work:

Master Tub.

Master Shower. The glass walls and door are going to make this area really come together.

Adam starting the foyer. We did the same layout as the kitchen, a diagonal brick pattern.

The completed foyer.

We also finished installing the interior doors. Here are the doors to closets off of the Master Bath.

Here is our laminate wood flooring. We have all the material delivered and the plan is to install it after the landscaping and driveway are complete.

We are officially not doing any more cutting inside the house – I don’t want saw dust on my new granite. So, we cleaned out the living room.

And we moved the saws into the garage. Here’s our new work station. We cleaned up the garage a bit, so this was a very nice improvement.

We began installing the plumbing fixtures yesterday. Here is the shower/bath in the Hall Bath. We also installed the sink faucet, but I forgot to get a picture.

And here is the Jack and Jill bath. The water heater is also installed. We should have the rest of the fixtures in soon.

We need to complete the tile, casing around the doors and plumbing fixtures. Then we’ll move outside to the irrigation, landscaping and concrete work. 