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:-)

Getting Wired

It's ironic that our last blog post was on St. Patty's Day, because today we met with a nice Irish gent named Noel who owns Trinity Wiring Solutions to discuss the cable, internet, phone and security system for our new home. While we only own one tv now, we will definitely have enough cable hook-ups for many more some day:-) I think my favorite part of the meeting was when Noel described the advantage of upgrading to dual cable (coax)/ethernet/phone ports in the home, letting us know that for streaming video and gaming it helps ensure a clean picture. He then noted, "well, it's not like either of you look like online gamers." Of course, Brian said, "why, yes, I do game," to which Noel replied, "you hide it well, my friend." LOL!