- HERE IT IS & THE DATE'S BEEN SET... -

for june 20 - that's the date that comcast will be hooking up our internet service - you may think it's funny that we're planning this entire 'first move' on when we can get internet service, but with spike having his own business, he HAS to have it in order to keep working - he's also called & got the movers ready to move out the big stuff on the 20th as well

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we close on our current home on the 16th, but don't have to have everything totally out until the 26th as that's the day they're taking possession of it - i've been going over most every day & getting more & more stuff taken over, curtains bought & hung, all ahniér's clothes put where they need to be & bassinets put where they need to be, so we're getting there! - it's starting to look more like 'home' with the more things of ours we get pulled in [don't get me wrong, we'll be VERY glad to move out when the time comes as we'll be cramped, but for now... it's 'home']

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today spike & i were off very early [yuk] as we'd to leave our house about 7:30 - this' where we've to pick everything from tile, carpeting, brick, siding, front door color, cabinetry, countertops, lighting, toilets, etc.

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here's some of our picks [keep in mind there's fluorescent lighting in the studio, so some of the pics are sort of blurry...sorry]

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we're building this house through rylandhomes.com & click here to view the house we've chosen & you can take a virtual tour as well - when you go to the site, click on 'elevations' as we've picked the 'craftsman', but ours will be flipped compared to the layout you see on the page [our garage will be to the left]

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something you'll not see in the pictures, that we chose to do was a 4' bumpout off the back of the kitchen for a bit of a 'breakfast nook', chose siding color 'sierra' [dark tan/light brown], chose brick color 'barnsley tudor' & chose all our door hardware & faucets throughout the house 'bronze' [looks black as you can see on the front door below]

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front door etched glass & also the color we chose (black)

entry way chandelier

[this lighting fixture also comes in smaller sizes

& we'll hang 2 of the smaller ones at either end of our dining room table as well]oak cap with white spindles, plus wainscoting
gourmet kitchen

[these are the exact cabinets we picked] another view of the kitchen

[note: we're not having the 2nd stairs that you see in the background]this' the tile that we picked out, except in a different color

we'd narrowed our choices down to just 2

[1] rusty brown & slate blue/grey [that you see below]

[2] rusty brown & olive green [our pick]

if you can picture 'olive green' in the slate blue/grey areas, that's what ours will look like!all bathroom countertops
all faucets

[not in this color, but this' the design we picked]

grids on all windows

berber carpet

sheet vinyl in both upstairs bathrooms

kitchen countertop

[can't see really well, but it's a 'chocolaty brown' background,

with black, off white & carmel flecks in it]