Less than 60 Days Until Settlement...

Another beautiful Saturday in Virginia, and we're now less than 60 days until our settlement. It was blazing hot today, but we took a few snapshots of the house (you can see the front with the garage door down for the first time) below:

Our circuit breaker is in the works just inside of our garage door and some of the insulation has been put in.

You can see some of the insulation in our garage here:

In addition to the garage, we saw that our family room has begun to be insulated, and the frames for the recessed lights that we added are in.

This is what the frames for the recessed lights look like:

In our soon-to-be kitchen where Chef Brian will cook some tasty cuisine, we noticed that the vent has been moved over top of where our stove will be.

Upstairs, more insulation has been put in. Here's a photo of the master bedroom. You can also see the framing for the tray ceiling we'll have.

Next week the drywall will begin. We'll keep you posted once we have some walls. Until then, go team USA soccer:-)

Shutter Time

A few days later, and we now have shutters! Our black shutters have been put up ahead of schedule, and it looks like things are moving along.

In addition to the shutters, the copper roofing has been put on our side bay windows

The builders have also started on our siding too. We have a light beige colored siding, which you can see in progress here:

Here's another angle of the progress until this Saturday when we'll head out to Aldie to watch the World Cup US vs. UK game!

Behold the Brick

It looks like the brick front of our house is nearly complete. It's beginning to look like a real house now! The brick still needs to be acid washed to make the front even, but so far so good...

Here's a closer look at the detail on our brick. We're really happy with the Virginia Highlands brick with the Red Wire Cut accent.

Our roof is nearly finished too. We're still waiting on a few more bundles of shingles, but you can see the peaks of our roof with the brick here:

We also noticed that one of our outside faucets has also been put in place. Now we'll have a place to hook up the hose and water our soon to be lawn!

Inside our house, things are moving along too. Our HVAC system is being installed in our attic, and our furnace is also being installed.

Since our pre-drywall meeting, some of the electrical outlets and HDMI ports have also been scoped out. Even though we only currently have 1 TV, we'll have cable outlets in 6 places in our home. Brian can only dream of the day he has so many tv's!

We also noticed that some of the cable and electric wiring has started to be pulled through the house. Check it out below:

We'll leave you with 1 more photo of the front of our house for now:-)

It's a Brick....House!

Today we met with Matt, our project manager, to conduct the pre-drywall meeting. It was about 94 degrees and we were sweating, but I'm sure that was nothing compared to how the 5+ workers felt after laying bricks all day in the sun. See below for the first shots of our Virginia Highlands Brick with Red Wire Cut accent.

During the pre-drywall meeting, we walked through each room of our house with Matt and a guy named Dale from Trinity Wiring to point out where we want our electric outlets, recessed lights, cable, phone, and ethernet drops, and security system wiring. Here's a photo in one of the bedrooms upstairs. You can see Matt in the shadow on the right, and the workers through the window.

We're nearly within 60 days of closing, so fingers crossed, the construction will keep moving along. We thought there was a snafoo with our brick selection since we had no idea what Williamsburg brick was, but it turns out it's just being used to supplement the Red Wire Cut accent brick around the windows and the garage door.

Here's one more shot of the house with the scaffolding. We were told that the roof would be complete tomorrow, and by Saturday, our brick should be finished.