Chutes and Ladders

They are finished putting all of the HVAC system into the house... and the silver spaghetti throughout the house looks pretty cool...or in my mind like a life size version of what the game Chutes and Ladders (mind you there still were ladders in the house when I took these pictures) would look like. Now that all the a/c and plumbing is in, the framing crew also has framed where the runs and pipes had to go in the closets/ceilings, etc. -- starting to really begin to see what things are going to look like. They also finished the insulation under the house and closed up the floor boards that were still open in the kitchen, front of the house and playroom. Another few step closer to completion!

Thought this was a cool view of the a/c and plumbing you see when looking up at the opening at the front of the house:

Board game... picture of Houston highways or our Master bedroom:

A/C runs, plus view of second floor from our bedroom:

Ever wonder how they get a/c from the attic to the first floor... I am not sure I ever thought about it prior, but a good thing we planned to have a really large shower in our bathroom, because the back of it has now been used to bring the a/c to the first floor:

A view of the insulation that went under the house... the house is pier and beam and this is supposed to help because heat rises... and well... H Town is hot:

And the floor boards now closed up in the kitchen:

A view of the front of the house from the kitchen... I love how open it looks... obviously it will still be open as there are not that many walls, but it will be interesting to see the view once the dry wall goes up:

When we were at the house on Saturday E had a great time running around the house... between her new found freedom and less openings in the floor... she had fun exploring:

We now have a study with a/c and lights... guess Brian could set up his office at the new place now:

E is moving on to inspecting the next room.... she loves sneaking through the openings in the framing... hope she will still love coming to the "hooussse" once the walls go in and there is not pink all over:

We now have exterior doors at the house:

View of court yard with new brick work completed and new beams on porch:

And a picture of the front of the house with the new over hang... don't worry the shutters and dormers will not be the colors they are currently shown!

Today at the house they did a lot of work on the outside of the house... removed and replaced the roofing in the car port area of the house and cleared out the landscaping in the front of the house. I was unsuccessful in my trip to pick out slabs of granite and marble. Who knew that every piece of marble and granite would already be tagged or have a fracture in it... argh. Hopefully in a few weeks (just in time for me to be busy at my new job) when they get more in, it will not be so picked over and I can quickly make my selections! There was a lot of variation in the Carrera Marble and the pieces left to choose from either were really grey, had tons of etching already or discoloration marks in the marble... all of the honed granite had fractures in it, so selecting that was out too. It was fun to look at everything, but quite a process... it is not like you can just flip through the slabs as they are huge and heavy (weighing well over 1000 lbs... yes we asked), but since natural stone, obviously each piece looks different so you want to see as many as possible... so to make the selection, they have to bring over a machine to move each piece. Let's just say, it is not a super fast process. 2 hours later and all I had tagged was the one piece of granite - that I am not even convinced on for secondary bathrooms. Hoping to finalize a lot more house stuff this week while I have the time!