New Home Construction

[bmac]

Here's a close-up of the exterior faucet to the left of the door. As you can see, we have hot water available on this one and on one on the rear of the house. Will be nice when washing cars in the winter to have warm water available.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Front door transom window really makes for a class look. Very nice detail.
Cliff

 

[bmac]

The exterior HVAC units have been set and hooked up. We ended up with a dual fuel heatpump, I think 16 SEER. Having a hard time keeping all the specs straight. Still have to get the propane hooked up.

 

[bmac]

Thanks, Cliff. My wife and I envisioned the front door being stained, inside and out. However, the side lights and transom came pre-primed on the outside, so we painted the door and sidelights the same color that, from a distance, kinda looks stained.

I'll have an interior view coming up shortly.

 

[bmac]

The reason I took so many pictures today was to get my post count up to 1000. Now that I'm a Veteran Member, I have achieved my life-long goal and see no reason to post any more pictures. That you all for your time. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Here's an exciting shot of the footers for the posts that will support the screened porch. We've been waiting a long time for enough dry weather to get this done. Once the posts are in, we can tile the porch floor.

 

[bmac]

OK, here's some interior shots. I don't think I've shown the guest shower since its been grouted and the fixtures in. So, here it is.

 

[bmac]

I'll warn everyone with sensitive eyes now, do not open the attchment in this post. Irreversible retinal damage may occur.

With that disclaimer, this is the color chosen for my daughter's room. I'm not sure if they used paint or Pepto Bismal.

 

[bmac]

Here's her bath. Thankfully, the color has been toned down a bit. I'm not sure how well the color was reproduced in this picture, but its a very light greenish color.

 

[bmac]

Another view of her bath showing the beadboard wainscoating. And the toilet.

 

[bmac]

My son's bedroom and bath will be painted a dark brown and his bath has the same beadboard wainscoating (so does the guest bath and the master water closet (or toilet room, as I call it).

I took a few pictures of some of the light fixtures my wife selected. All are in a dark bronze color to match the plumbing fixtures in the kitchen and door hardware. Its a theme, I'm told. Thank goodness this was not left up to me. I will say (and I think you'll agree) that it does give the home an "old timey" kind of look, which is what we were going for.

Here's some kitchen fixtures.

 

[bmac]

Dining Room

 

[bmac]

Living room

 

[bmac]

Breakfast Room

 

[bmac]

And Foyer. This picture also shows the stained finish on the interior surface of the front door.

 

[bmac]

Here's some task lighting in the kitchen.

 

[bmac]

Here's what we ended up doing with the fireplace. We used 12x12 tile that looks like slate. Still needs to be grouted and we have to come up with some way to trim out the transition to floor and wall. But, I think it will look OK.

 

[bmac]

Here's a picture of the kitchen that is similar to the task lighting shot. Here, I used a flash to better show the tile backsplash.

 

[bmac]

Here's the backsplash behind where the stove will go. I'm sure it looks better in person than in my picture. This is another example of where my wife bout some tile and told Corey to "make it look good". I think he did. Again, still needs some grout.

You may notice that the top row of tile has been removed. Although it about killed Corey to undo some of his hard work, it was the only way to get the exhaust hood to fit. In fact, he also had to remove the underlying sheetrock.

 

[bmac]

Here's a picture of the faucet we are using in the kitchen. This is at the small prepsink, but we have the same thing on the main sink. That one was broken when the plumbing guy was attempting to fix his installation mistake.

The picture makes the fixture look kind of like pewter, but it is really a dark, oil-rubbed bronze finish.

 

[bmac]

This is a different view of the same thing. rox, you can see in this picture that the backsplash has been fixed to provide cut-outs for the electical boxes.

I'll also mention that in this photo and in the pictures of the tile backsplash, you can clearly see the almond or white outlets and faceplates. They will be changed to brown or black to look less obvious against the tile / granite surfaces to which they are attached.