Our New House!

You all asked for it..here's a post that I had going as the house was being built. 

Everytime we'd go down to see it, I'd take pictures and then do an update to this post.

Enjoy!

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Since about January of 2012, we have been looking for a duplex to buy.
We wanted to live in one side and rent out the other.
But there wasn't a single duplex (good quality) anywhere to be found.
We were getting so tired of looking at so many expensive dumpholes.
And in the meantime, we were losing time fast,
because we were getting married in May and needed a place to live.
So while we were searching for a duplex to buy, we were also searching for an apartment to rent.

So May came around, and we had found a place to go while we continued looking for a house.
It was expensive though!
For a 1 bedroom basement apartment.
I wasn't the happiest wife after a while of living there (4 months).
So while we continued looking for a place,
we moved out of our expensive apartment and into Andy's parents basement around August.

Since we were not finding anything we loved in the duplex department, or in the Orem/Provo area,
we decided to change our vision!

We thought long and hard about being landlords,
and the more we thought about it, the more we hated the idea.
At least doing it right from the start of marriage. Yikes.
Living together for the first time is hard enough, let alone being in charge of other people too.
Maybe in the future we could be landlords, but for now, no thanks!
So we looked high and low for a house instead of a duplex.

We also thought more and more about living in the Provo/Orem area.
Now the crappy thing about Provo/Orem is, if you want to live in a nice area,
you have to fork out a crap load of money. No thanks.
So we broadened our horizon and figured if we lived as far as Spanish Fork it wouldn't be horrible.
Andy's married brothers and now his sister, all live there so it's not completely random.
Plus, it's CHEAP!

Which then leads me to where we are now!
After many months of searching for the perfect place, we found one in Spanish Fork.
It was about $50,000 cheaper for our brand new house than it was for an old dumpy house that only has 2 bedrooms and 1 bath.
We found ours for a great price, brand new, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and an unfinished basement!
The house is also pretty close to Highway 6,
so we can jump on that and head straight to the freeway to get to work.

We are beyond excited to be living here.
It's been a long awaited thing!
We both are in much need of leaving Provo for a bit.

We definitely want to thank all our amazing family for helping us out with everything.

Mike for helping us find a house. (and for being a close neighbor now!)
Grandpa & Reed for coming down to check out the quality of the construction of the house.
 All those people, for helping us move into the house.
And everyone else for just supporting us!

THANK YOU!

Okay, enough of my rambling!
Here's our house, from the beginning!
(Mind you, it's half of a twin home)


Start date: October 19, 2012
Estimated date of finish: End of February/as of January 10th they said: February 20th
End date: February 20, 2013
Move-In date (when we actually moved in): March 9, 2013


Floor Plan 1st Edition:

Floor Plan 2nd Edition (Final Edition):

October 6, 2012

The Lot #77, #76

October 19, 2012

Hole is dug.

October 27, 2012

Footings placed.

November 3, 2012

Foundation

Around this time, we found out we get to pick everything out!

Colors of walls, counter tops, flooring, outside stucco/stone, everything! So fun!



Our side

The other side

  

November 17, 2012

Wood Delivery,

Cement poured for driveways

November 25, 2012

1st part, Framing

Lot #77

December 2, 2012

2nd Part, Framing

(things we want fixed, not fixed yet-refer to 2nd edition floor plans)

-main bathroom

-master bedroom door

Garage

From living room looking towards master bedroom.

From living room looking towards garage.

December 13, 2012

Shingles on roof,

Windows and doors in.

(floor plan fixed, and MUCH better)

December 16, 2012

Electrical placed.

First bedroom/office room.

Hall closet/2nd bedroom.

Main bathroom, fixed, with bathtub.

Living room looking towards Master Bedroom.

December 30, 2012

Sheet Rock 

Start of the stucco

Window has been placed in the attic

Garage

Love the change we made to the Master bedroom door to make the living room wall bigger!

Living Room looking down the hallway

Main Bathroom & Master bedroom doorway

Bedroom #2

Hallway looking into the Living Room/Kitchen

It's finally looking like a house! Yay!

Dining room looking into the Kitchen

Laundry Room/Mudroom

Living Room looking into the Kitchen

Dining Room looking into the Living Room

Master Bathroom/Closet & Main Bathroom

January 4, 2013

Picking out the carpet, vinyl, tile and wood for the house, at Halifax Flooring

January 6, 2013

Stone on the outside

Sheet rock taped

(Heater was on when we went, due to it being -6 degrees lately!)

Bedroom #1 (Office)

French doors

Living room corner looking towards the kitchen

Living room corner looking towards the front door

Front door looking down the hall w/ coat closet on the left

January 12, 2013

Too much snow to park and go inside.

Garage is in!

Too cold for them to put the finishing stucco on the outside.

January 20, 2013

Outside stucco is finished;
Front door and back door have door knobs;
Doors are all in in the whole house, no knobs;
Topping on the walls and ceiling to add texture;
Baseboards are being placed, almost done.

Both sides

Our side

1/2 of the french doors to the office, and door to the hall closet.

Front door looking down the hall; hall closet on the left.

Closet inside the first room/office, french doors are glass but the glass is covered.

Hallway looking into the living room/kitchen.

Front door

The ceilings have the texture

Second bedroom

Main bathroom

Second bedroom looking out into the living room

Looking into the kitchen

Inside the master bedroom, bathroom on the right

Looking into the master bedroom

Master bedroom closet; door to the closet will be coming off when we move in

Master bedroom

Kitchen/Dining room

Kitchen from the dining room

Master bathroom

Dining room looking into the kitchen and living room

Looking downstairs

Laundry room/mudroom

Back door knob

Below are pictures of the basement, which will remain unfinished.

Basement

Basement

Basement

Basement

February 2, 2013

Cabinets, wood flooring, tile flooring and vinyl flooring are all in.

Paint is done on walls, doors, and ceiling and almost done on trim.

Garage stairs have been poured.

Stairs are poured in the garage

Living room looking at the main bathroom and 2nd bedroom

Living room looking into kitchen

Dining room looking into kitchen

Sink in the kitchen

Master bedroom

Master bathroom

Mudroom/Laundry room

Wood flooring is covered, tile in the mudroom needs to have the grout placed

Main bathroom

Looking down the hallway

2nd bedroom

1st bedroom/office

February 14, 2013

Counter tops are in the kitchen, bathrooms.

Light fixtures are in and working.

Grout in the laundry room is finished.

Door way going into our room is finished.

Appliances being put in!

Masterbathroom

Kitchen

Kitchen bar

Masterbathroom again

Masterbedroom

Kitchen/Dining Room

Main bathroom

2nd bedroom

Kitchen

Kitchen sink

Hallway, looking at front door

Dining room w/ light

Ceiling fan in the living room.

February 18, 2013

We went down to the house to check it out, but the whole thing is 

locked and the garage combo they gave us didn't work. 

We looked in the windows in the back and saw that the carpet had been placed!

The vents weren't all put in yet.

Also, the front cement steps were poured, but covered.

(No pictures this round)

Estimated finish date is on wednesday! So excited!

Also, we bought our new washer/dryer today!!

Things are moving along so much!

February 19, 2013

Grout in the laundry room done.

Baseboards not painted yet.

Doorway into the master bedroom not painted.

Railing in the garage is in.

Cement stairs in the front.

Vents have all been placed inside.

Basically last minute things to be done!

Laundry Room

 

Master bedroom, closet, and bathroom

Back patio

February 20, 2013

Around 11:00am, they let us know that it is "DONE!"

We did a walk through at 5:15pm, things still look the same.

Basically done, just a few more things to finish.

February 27, 2013

They said we could close today, but the bank couldn't get a hold of the builders.

As of now, we are going to be closing on Friday.

We'll see!

Right now, there are a few things that need to be finished that aren't.

Hopefully they finish those things ASAP.

We are hoping to move in on Monday or Tuesday (March 4, or March 5).

March 5, 2013

WE CLOSE TODAY AT 4:30pm!

We'll be moving in all week, but the big move will be saturday!

March 6, 2013

We got the keys today, as well as the garage door openers!

We also changed the code to the garage to our own code.

Still planning the move on saturday!

March 9, 2013

Moving day!

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Downsides:

The front yard won't be done until it warms up, hoping for April..

The spray painted Lot 77 is still visible on our house until they come back to do the yard..

We still have to paint our garage..

Upsides:

We have our own place!

We are super happy!

It's done!!

Thanks for reading through all of this! It's been a long process (apparently not very long compared to others), but we are so happy and excited!

 And we seriously can't thank you all enough for

supporting us, helping us move, and being excited with us!

UPDATE: 5/29/13

May 12, 2013

We have grass!!

May 22, 2013

We have a fence!!

Update: 4/27/14

1 Year Later