Ok, so this isn't much of a post due to the lack of info and photos from Friday and Saturday. My family and I took a trip up to Michigan for a whirlwind weekend to celebrate my 2 year old's birthday with family.
Aside from Steve making a quick stop to make some changes in electrical and extending the half wall a couple more inches (cabinets altogether on that wall should be 91", half wall was originally made to be 89.5"), there really isn't much progress being made to the house.
BUT to make this a somewhat worthy read, I did take a screenshot of a neat 3D rendering of what the open concept living/dining/family room might look like when it's all done. Ta Da!
I used an iPad app called Home Design 3D. There is a very limited trial version for free or purchase the app for a bargain basement price of $6.99. I ended up buying this app, but if I remember correctly, the biggest difference between the trial and paid version is that you can save your designs with the purchased version. So if you just want to get ideas, it's worth a try (or maybe just take screenshots for your own records if you really don't want to purchase the app)
Anyway, the interesting part is that I actually created this 3D rendering waaaay before we started construction and even before we've even picked out contractors. The actual (almost) finished design is looking pretty much spot on to how I "3D" designed it, which was somewhat of a surprise after we opened the saved design a few weeks later. Neat, eh?
After we returned from Michigan on Sunday, we did manage to stop by the house (after battling icy winterstorm Khan -- yes, winterstorms also now have names), to check out what's been going on while we were gone.
Looks like they've finished drywall/mudding the vent soffits in the family room as well as extended the half wall. Overall some progress, but there was a little bit of miscommunication from what we can see since we didn't want this weird "tetris" L shaped soffit piece in the corner of the opening in the family room, so we're going to ask them to extended the top part of the soffit all the way across the header for a little uniformity (the picture is a little cutoff on the below left, sorry).
They've also covered up the vent on the kitchen side with a 4" soffit overhang (and this one extended all the way across the header) so we are happy with this one.
And that's about it folks, at least from what we can see. OH, Steve did spy that the new electrical boxes above the half wall for our pendant lighting and also more electrical outlets, etc. have been moved/added around the kitchen which is pretty awesome too. The previous owners had some really interesting ideas of working around electrical for the oven and fridge-- as in using extension cords coming from the basement and other outlets to connect to power. Pretty crafty, but not at all the way it should be. So yay for the new outlets.
To end this post on a sweet weekend note, below are just a few photos from our 2 year old's sweeter than sweet cupcake party. My tooth aches just looking at the photos.
Hope you guys had a great weekend. And stayed warm too!
If you guys want to read the rest of this *exciting* remodeling series, CLICK HERE!
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