A Roof Over Our Heads

On our way home from Pittsburgh, we decided to stop off at the house to see how much progress had been made since last Thursday. It looks like our garage door has been installed and our roof is almost complete. Here's a closer look at our garage door. It's a 2-car carriage door in white with Sonoma arch windows.

Inside our house, there's also been progress. Our fireplace has been installed...

The tub in our master bathroom has been put in place (Brian can't wait to bathe in it!)...

The floor to our shower in the master bath has been installed...

...and the bathtub has also been put in place in our upstairs bathroom.

It looks like things will be moving along this week. The blueprints were taped up to the window of our family room.

The houses two and three lots down from ours on the left also seem to be near complete. Just look at those lush lawns...looks like we'll need a lawn mower soon!

Brian's Bathroom

If you know Brian, you know that he loves to take baths. So, when he laid eyes on the dark slate colored tile in the model home's master bath, he was over the moon with excitement. According to Brian, he wants a luxurious spa bath feel like none other. That actually made it easy for us to choose the master bath tile (Dal tile, Veranda Series) with 13x20 inch gunmetal tiles and charcoal grount on the floor and 13x13 inch tiles on the wall.

The one hang-up was the accent tile along the wall. For some reason, the tile company matched up a Nascar-like checkered flag tile motif with the more organic slate tile, which we just weren't digging. You can see that along the wall in the photo from the model home above.

In lieu of the checkered tile, we decided to request a white/gray marble "Arabescato" listello with white grout to be laid as brick joints around the wall over the tub. We think it has more of a classic look, so we're hoping it will work. Apparently, no one has ever requested the gunmetal tile and the marble together before. We'll have white cabinetry with meteorite granite in the master bath to complete the black and white look. See below for a photo:


See below for a sample of our meteorite granite:

Needless to say, when we were finished, we were pretty exhausted and pretty happy with our selections.