What a Difference A Week Makes

Our foundation was poured about a week ago (last Monday) and what a difference a week makes. Today we got shingles! (construction material, not neurological disease).

We still cruise the neighborhood to check out the other houses, too. There is another model just like ours, but exactly reversed. I can't look at it too much, since I try to envision everything backwards. Another house on the other street has the coolest dark chocolate trim color. We love it! Ours will be a shade or two lighter, but still dark-ish. In 6 or 7 years or so, we'll probably bump that up to a super dark color. We only had like 6 choices of trim color in varying depths of color, and the darkest one was a bit too warm/reddish for our brick. So this way, in a few years, we'll pick a super dark cool color to emphasize our slamtastic bricks (we hope).

I've been taking pictures of the inside, sketching them, and painting them different ways to see what the heck I'm going to do with the walls (thanks Beth for letting me live vicariously through y'all's house colors). It gives me something to brood over around 3-6am. Every night. @#$$^&! I'm just not sure I want our super dark steely blue color in too many places, but it is our favorite choice so far. Some of those walls are darn high, and it might be best left to some professional to break his neck falling from that height. We have a large open room and two walls of it are logical to paint our cool dark color, but the third wall is hard to define. Too many angles probably means I should leave it boring white. I'll let Mom decide when she comes.

Here are a few inside pix that are solidly in the "before" category. The first one is a view out back at sunset. This wall is 14 feet high.

This one is our skeletal kitchen, facing the back, just to the left of the picture above. There are two little tiny windows that we don't know why they included in the plan. They truly seem like shotgun defense windows, but should look directly at our neighbors fence eventually. Maybe for light? Actually, they would make fantastic drive-thru windows, one for payment and orders, the other for food pick up...