Some recent pictures

48 hours and counting! This is going to be a short post since I am supposed to be working and I get on my guys about this all the time. We can't wait! Oh, and Texas Tech being ranked 7th is making my week! It was a fun weekend in College Station, now it's time to get back to work.

Special thanks goes out the Felix and Cat landscaping (still mad about that ordinance thing), At Home Media (Mark Gannon) and as always Waller Contracting for doing a great job. They will be working on our new office space soon so more on that later.


Master Bath


Living Room


Living Detail


My killer front porch! You should see it now.


Some Landscaping


The Kitchen

Patience, Patience

A number of things have happened in the month since I've last posted. We are cranking away to make decisions but man the house looks good.

• There's texture on the walls
• 6" makes all the difference in the world
  
• The doors are in (mostly)
• We have gotten into one fight over silly things
• The stone broke the seal on the front windows so they had to redo it
• We can't get our contractor to write anything down (he's doing a great job)
• The house is painted outside
• The porch looks really cool, we just need the deck
• We have lost all of our cushion and we're about a week late now
• We are aiming at the end of September
• We are thinking October now
• We can't wait to get in there!

We are ready to move in. Renting pretty much stinks but we're dealing with it. I am ready to unload all my boxes and get into this deal. They should be putting up toekicks and getting into the tile very soon. The neighbors are ready for this deal to be done, whew! I sure am ready to have an office at home too! The littlest one is having a hard time sleeping in her "scary" room so we're ready for her to have her own room. Elmo and Darth Vader have that effect on people.



On another random note, there is another house going up on our street, stucco and brick. I wish stucco would go out of style. These builders don't give a crap about the aesthetic of the neighborhood. We are supposed to get signatures to have a two story house and they didn't do it. The funny thing is, as a branding guy, it seems like if the guy walked around one night, introduced himself and got some signatures we would welcome him, speak our mind but respect him. Basically, the guy has lost a lot of goodwill and we are thinking of suing him just to be a pain. We are also thinking of starting a HOA for Spring Oaks.

I think we should. We're vested in this neighborhood.

Holy Cow a Frame!

The past few days have been amazing. The entire first floor is complete and they were prepping for the second floor late this afternoon with the trusses. We are so excited. You can see the rooms and about how big things are. The house is so much bigger than what we have but it seems so small in this stage with no sheetrock or enclosures. We can see how big the great room is and we know how small the playroom is.

BTW, we designed the playroom to make sure that the kids could have fun, do homework and watch TV in it but it is not a room that would be comfortable for more than 3 or 4. The idea being, if we get that many kids in the house and it is a nice day, they would be more comfortable outside... see the thinking... what about that! Hope it works.

Another hot topic... pocket doors. Other than a few childhood hang ups, I am over my hatred of pocket doors and I have come to agree with my wife, swinging doors waste space. I just hate the rolling thud they make but oh, well! We are having pocket doors where they can fit!

And one more thing, the foundation guys were great, the framing guys are a bit more "interesting" so we are steering clear.