Our Jayman Experience: 1st House Adventures: Day 228

Progress:

Went to the walkthrough and everything was great! To our surprise we found that the rock was already installed into the fireplace so we finally got to see it in person. Everything is looking really really good. The only thing that was a little off was there were two areas where we thought would be stained like the rest (can't remember what they are called though). We should know the possession date tomorrow at the latest :D...but maybe tonight (hoping).

So now that I don't feel as brain dead as I did yesterday I will make this post better by giving more information regarding the walk through. When we got there there was a painter working but he stopped so we could go through (Tyler accidentally touched the door with his fingers and got paint on himself lol...not his clothes though). As I said before when we walked in we found that the stone on the fireplace was installed which was a really nice surprise. The stone should also be installed on the outside of the house before we move in which is even nicer. We were worried about the stone having too much yellow in it but when we got to see it in person it didn't seem to bad. Yes, there is more than we thought there would be but the new lino that we picked out yesterday will minimize the yellow and even complement it.

I guess I didn't give an update regarding the lino we picked out. So after our meeting at 645am (yes, a very ungodly hour but I really like that they were flexible with offering that time) we have picked out our new lino. Before we picked out a nice light but slightly creamy lino that had 12 inch squares on it. In the end it didn't come in 12 inch squares but that worked for us because they had new samples in that we could pick from. There were two that we were looking at mainly. There was one that was 12 inch squares that was a medium stone grey but we thought that it would make the kitchen to dark. The other one we found was probably 9inch squares but it had a bit of a pattern to it as in throw in a few horizontal rectangles to cut of the path of the squares (best way to describe it as I don't know what the pattern is called). It has yellow, grey, white, cream, and light brown in it which is dark enough to contrast the light carpet, bring colours in from the cabinets and counters but the best thing is it will pull colours in from the fireplace stone to pull the open room together extremely well (and also to mellow the yellow that is in the fireplace stone...ha ha, mellow that yellow i'm so tired that is entertaining).

Rock Fireplace

So I think the kitchen is looking really really good and we are very happy we upgraded the handles on the cabinets. The next thing we noticed after this was the toppers on the stairwell (since I still don't know what they are called it's anywhere you see brownish paper and green tape...don't know why I didn't take a picture of them). They were stained to match the cabinets to create flow through the entire place and they turned out exceptional! They are gorgeous, but there are a couple places that weren't stained but are the exact same type of topper. The opening in the wall by the doorway there is a topper and there are bigger toppers (two areas by the stairs...again, didn't take a picture of them but you can see the area that should have been stained in the picture that looks down from the top floor to the main floor...those white squares at the bottom, those are the big toppers). Brett is looking after this issue because he also thinks that they should have been done too so that should work out fine. We're really happy with how the house is turning out...and i'm literally vibrating with excitement I swear (Tyler's going to think there is an earthquake in our apartment a week before we move at this rate ha ha).

Kitchen

Living Room

Master Bedroom

Closet

Bathroom

Main Bathroom

Bedroom

Bathroom

Second Floor Hall

Closet

See, the brown paper and green tape? Underneath is a beautiful stained brown! The one place we were exceptionally impressed is in the closets. Yeah, that sounds a bit odd but let me explain. So see the toppers above the closet (yes, I will be calling those toppers now too)? That is one of our upgrades that we decided to do (mostly because it was cheaper to get them to do it than us doing it ourselves which is impressive). Well those are suppose to go on both sides of every doorway. Which we thought would be places like bedroom doors and the walk in closet but we were extremely impressed because even the small little non walk in closet that no one will ever notice because there will be shelves put in there are also toppers on the other side, fully done like we could walk in there and enjoy them.

Bedroom

Loft

Squares at bottom should be stained...see how the continuity of the stained toppers is (well the continuity will be 100% once the two while squares at the bottom are stained).