7Antassawamock

Home Depot Design Expo

Sunday was spent at the local Home Depot Design Expo in Braintree, MA. For those who haven't had the
pleasure, this place isn't your run-of-the-mill Home Depot. This place is chock full of model kitchens, bathrooms and more cabinet handles and knobs than you've ever seen. We weren't there buying one of their $15,000 refridgerators, but rather shopping in their "in-stock" section for bathroom pedestal sinks, faucets for the bathrooms and the kitchen and picking out tile for the foyer and the laundry room. We typically refer to Lowes and H.D. and the "$250 store", well for this place....Add another zero. The good news is that we have a meeting today with our builder Steve to review the final finish schedule. Here is a quick building update...The exterior is 85% shingled with just the top 2 peaks left to finish. The main level is 80% plastered and the basement and upper levels are all sheetrocked. The plasterer says they'll be done with the house by friday (my bet is by Sunday) and we can start priming and painting next week. We have the Sheldon Slate guys coming on Monday the 12th to do the templating for the counters, so that means the kitchen cabinets will be in by then. Thanks for reading and i'll post more pictures later this week. For all those in the market for home fixtures and ideas, take the time to visit the Expo, you won't be diasppointed.

steelbuilding.com

A while back we had to decide and order what we wanted for garage doors for our new house. Our builder Steve immediately mentioned a web site called Steelbuilding.com. Sarah and I have never had our own garage before and had never really looked into the difference between garage doors and how to price and configure them. I have to say that the entire experience with the folks over at steelbuilding was one that i wouldn't hesistate to reccommend to others. We configured, ordered and received our garage doors all through the web site. I highly reccommend it. To the left is a picture of the Clopay door we chose that happens to be made of hemlock and will be painted in Benjamin Moores Chrome Green. The image you see is a screenshot of the Clopay door that i turned into Chrome Green.. I also took a picture of the side of the house and dropped in the garage doors to see what they looked like.....

9.22 Update

Lots of progress on the house in the past few weeks. The porch is built, the mahogany is down, the columns are up and the exterior shingling has commenced. There are several pictures in the photo gallery and here is a link to the Maibec web site. We went with their Bleaching Oil Nantucket shingle. Also, i have included a picture of the shingling detail the crew at CCCB did on the corners of the house. Instead of running finish board down the corners, they ran the shings right to the edges. Very cool we thought. Our friend Patrick says Steve saw this done on the Bell Tower house in Marion and has wanted to do it on one of his projects ever since. The insulation is also complete and the drywall has started to go up. As of this post, the entire main floor and 75% of the basement has drywall hung. The posts will start fast and furious now. Look for additional pictures later this week as the guys wrap up the shingling on the exterior and the palster starts to go up on the interior.

8.30 Update

The electricians and plumbers are finished, and we received our electrical and plumbing inspections. Next are building the porch, shingling the exterior and insulating the interior. Here is a picture of the outside of the house and more pictures here.