The Chunko Family: House Update

So many things are going on right now...We are delayed with moving, but closing may still potentially happen the week of the 14th - before Easter. Our movers are scheduled for the 24th so we don't have to keep changing dates with them. We saw our builder last night - all of us were at the house by chance. We had a nice chat and got more background on the situation. I feel better about it, but I still don't like how it happened. There's a problem between our builder and his investor and because they haven't worked things out between the two of them, they are holding us hostage. It's hard for him because he's never had anyone to answer to before - this is the first time he's used an investor. At least that has explained some things about why the process seemed so odd compared to other situations we've done before. I just wish he'd have told us this from the beginning. It would have saved us all a lot of headaches and frustration.

It's so exciting to see it all come together. They paint started going on the walls this week. It looks FABULOUS! I always get nervous with paint choices - is it too dark, too light, right shade? So far, I'm feeling great about what I see.

Our awesome landscaper (who could potentially become a good friend of ours down the road because he and his family ride dirt bikes too!) planted our first two trees. It's a little hard to see but there are 2 Queen palms just in front of our fence. They are still tied up at the branches but we are hoping that they give us some privacy at our pool from our neighbors. There will be another house going up this summer between us and the blue one - the yellow one you can see with the orange roof is going to be knocked down.

The grout has been put on the kitchen tile backsplash. I LOVE how this all turned out. You can see a bit of the leathered black Brazilian granite countertop and my new range!

Here's the view into the kitchen from the family room. Everything is covered up because they are still painting in the house.

Our family room. I love how the floors, tile on the fireplace and wall color turned out.

This color is in the family room, office and dining room as well as up the stairs to the hallway/landing. It's called Anew Gray.

Ra's room will have an orange (the bold KTM orange below) as an accent wall.

The other walls will be this light shade of gray that matches his new bedding. This gray will also be in the guest bedroom/craft room as well as the guest bathroom.

K's room is going to be this pretty shade of pink for her surfer girl room.

The downstairs bath will be this shade of beige. It will look fabulous with the browns in this room.

Our master is called Comfort Gray and looks like this. The first coat was on the walls last night. It looked great and can't wait to see the gray carpet and our furniture with it!

The master bath is called Sea Salt. Both the bedroom and bathroom colors are in the same color family. The Sea Salt will look awesome with our board & batten on the walls and dark cabinets.

This is the color for the kids' bathrooms. Both kids have the same counter tops, but different cabinets (although they are both white but with different hues) and different tile on the floors & showers.

The tile on the back porch is almost finished. It's rectangular pieces of slate. The front porch will have the same tile. We sort of forgot about our side porch...Oh well. It's not that big and guests won't typically enter that way!

The front and side doors are installed too. They are going to be stained similar to our floors. The are obviously upside down in this picture. The taller one to the left is the front door and the shorter one to the right is the side door. You can see where the side door will be - it's that solid white door in the background. The doors are leaning up against the stairs. Behind the stairs is our mini mudroom area. I had the finished carpenter build a bench with cubbies where the kids can keep their shoes. I'm also going to buy some hooks for backpacks and coats.