A Completely Different House

On the journey of going to see our house yesterday, we didn't expect a lot to have happened.  We were still waiting for the inspector to come and look at everything to make sure the electrical and HVAC was up to code.  Boy, were we wrong to think that hadn't been done.  There has been SO much that happened in 2 days.

We got a text from Julie on Wednesday saying that they were delivering our drywall.  On Thursday, she sent me a text letting me know that there had been no progress on the drywall front.  We were a little bummed, but not shocked.  Chris's dad deals with city planners and codes and all of that stuff for his job.  He said that Springville was notorious for moving slowly in that regard.  We didn't expect any news or updates until after Christmas.  Which was fine for us.  They had already been moving super fast, so we didn't really care.  On Friday, we got the picture from Julie saying that our house had been wrapped and the outside was going to be started soon.  But she also said that she hadn't checked on the drywall progress that day, so she didn't know if anything had happened.  We still went down on Saturday with Chris's parents because they wanted to see the electrical and HVAC system.  When we pulled up to the house we had a pleasant surprise with 3 workers in our garage.  We were confused since it was a Saturday and normally they worked Monday - Friday.  We walked in the front door and our entire house had the drywall up.  The workers were in the garage putting up the last 3 or 4 sheets of drywall for our house.  And I have to say, there were moving very very quickly.  The house was a mess, but that was fine because they had put up everything in 2 days.  Plus I knew that they would clean up after themselves.  When you move that fast you can't be concerned about cleaning up your mess during the process. 

With the drywall up, it looks like a completely different house.  It's weird how every step makes it look like a little more like the house we picked out.  From here on out it's only going to get more and more "Gardner".  We'll be able to start seeing all of the details that we chose.  We are very excited for the next 5 weeks/37 days.  I know that the time is going to go by really really fast.  We are now on excitement overload.

I am not going to put up all of the pictures.  There are a lot of them.  I am just going to put up the ones that are the most interesting.  If you would like to see more of them, and have a full tour, you can click here and look at my Facebook album titled 'Building a House'.

{We have really tall ceilings}

{Our extra bedrooms and the main bathroom are on the left}

{The living room}

{The kitchen}