Inside Chateau Smith

Ok, so for everyone who has been asking, here are some pictures of the inside now that we have some of the rooms decorated.

PS  Please notice how Hurley managed to get himself in half of the pictures… silly dog

The kitchen (looking from the laundry room)          (looking from the dining room)

(looking from the family room) Roxy looking pretty and Hurley being a creeper in the bottom left hand corner…

Family room (looking from the kitchen)

(looking from the front entrance)

Our bedroom (looking from doorway)         (looking from closet)

Hurley matches our bedroom décor quite well…

Master bathroom, complete with vinyl lettering of the chorus from mine and Jordan’s favorite song… awwwwwe!!                    

Office/guest bedroom… we took a lot of heat for painting a room bright yellow… but I love this room!  We gave it a kinda surfer feel with the Quiksilver duvet and surfboard vinyls….

We still have the two other bedrooms to finish and the main bathrooms… but we have ideas for them, we now just need some time to actually work on them!

Week 12

DONE!
After only a few quick months (that only seemed like forever) our house is complete! We even managed to get our fence up and sod part of the yard! Now we just have to wait until the house closes and it's ours to move into!
The sod after it was put in!
Here is a panoramic view of the yard from the corner of the house.

Week 11–The Inside is Complete!!!

 

So this week we had to work really hard and get everything we were doing done before 8/1/11.  This involved lots of painting, grouting, sealing and other finishing tasks.  It was a lot of work but it was well worth it. 

 

Shutters, Lights and House Numbers Oh My!

Carpet and Vinyl!!!!

All the lights are up!!!

Bathroom Fixtures and Amazing Tile, Thanks Arden!!!!!!

The Yellow Office and Red Guest Bedroom!

Dirt for our newly fenced back yard!!!

Week 10

We are in the home stretch!  The painting is all done, the tiling in the master bathroom is done, the vinyl has been put in the kitchen and bathroom and the cabinets and countertops were added this week!  Also, Jordan and Arden started building the fence!!!  Weeeee aarrrrrrrrrrrrre ssssssssooooo cloooooose toooo beeeeeeing doooooooone!!  I can’t wait!!!

Beautiful cabinets!!

Gorgeous cabinets in the bathroom!!  And the amazing spa like bath tub and shower!

The Cadillac christening the driveway….                         Thumbs up from Mom and Dad!

Digging post holes…                         That fence is looking good!

Week 9

Oh my gosh, are we glad this week is over!  Painting the house was another one of the projects we decided to do ourselves, so this weekend after the professional painter had come in and painted everything white we went in to add color where we wanted.  So 10 gallons of paint and 3 days later, we finished and we are seriously exhausted.  A big thanks go out to Arden, Jan and Kabel for coming over to help, pretty sure Jordan and I would still be down there right now if it wasn’t for them.  But all in all, the paint turned out really nice!  We love the colors we choose and how they look sooooo good next to the thick white trim.  We have one more room to paint this week, the office, and it’s going to be a mystery color!  Just try and guess what color it will be!

Got our driveway poured this week!

I couldn’t wait to take the tape off, I was like a kid on Christmas morning….  so pretty!

Green kitchen…..                                                     Blue master bedroom and bathroom….

Jordan painting above the stairs on his make-shift platform… aka the scariest thing I have ever witnessed him doing!  If he had fallen, that would have been a long way down! I almost passed out watching his do this!

Week 8 - Part Two, the Railing

We decided that we wanted to do a few of the projects for the house ourselves to save money and have them done the way we wanted – mostly to increase the value of our house without spending a fortune to do it… the stair railing was one of those projects.

Jordan and his Dad have been working so hard for weeks to get this railing ready and this weekend they put it in… and it looks beautiful!  All that hard work paid off cause it is gorgeous!

Another special part of the stair railing is that I wanted to add a little part of Canada to the house, so I got a Loonie and I put it in the bottom of the stair railing.  Hopefully that Loonie will be a “Lucky Loonie” and we’ll always have good fortune in that house!

The Lucky Loonie……                   Me hiding the Lucky Loonie….      It’s waaaay down in the bottom…

Jordan was pretty tired after putting that in, but doesn’t it look great!?

Week 8 - One Month To Go!!!

Oh my goodness, in a month we will be moving into our house!  I am so excited!  But between now and then we are going to be extremely busy finishing the projects we decided to do ourselves, like the stair railing, the tiling in the bathroom, painting and building a fence!  This month is going to fly by!

This week they finally got the garage door on and the rock up on the front!  Now we are just waiting for the window shutters, the column to be finished and the door to be painted black and the house will look exactly how we always imagined it!

Close up of the porch… :) Gonna put a swing here!         They put up all the trim!

My HUGE closet!                               The super cute doors are one of my favorite parts of the house!

Week 7

The outside of the house is almost done!!  And it’s not even totally finished yet and it already looks soooo cute!  I love it! I am in looooooove with my house!

They also sheetrocked this week and started texturing the walls and ceiling!  The sad part is that the sheetrockers locked all the doors so I couldn’t go in to see it! How rude locking me out of my own house!  So I had to take pictures through the windows like a total creeper….

Sooooooo cute!  All we need now is shutters, the door painted, the column finished, and then the garage door and rock finish put on!

Locked out?!  What the…?!

From what I can tell it looks good…..?