La Casa de Los Freeny Ocho

The trim carpentry started about 2 weeks ago and finished up today! So far everything looks great! I think our kitchen cabinets turned out really nice, as well as our pantry. Going from the apartment kitchen to this, we will have plenty of room. We should be able to store all of our food in the pantry and everything else in the regular cabinets.

Fonzo, our trim carpenter, was able to install the double columns like our plans called for on the front porch.

















We have a couple of columns on the back porch as well.

















Fonzo did a beautiful job on the mantel over our fireplace.

















This is a photo of Britney's embarrassingly large walk-in closet. It's about 3 times the size of Brad's. (sorry, Brad) This photo doesn't do it justice. It really is quite huge. It used to be a staircase in part, but we decided not to have a room over the garage and made it into a closet instead. Hopefully, all of my clothes and stuff will fit in this one. I hope I don't outgrow it anytime soon.

















Cabinets in the master bath

















Kitchen cabinets (and Brad in the background)

















The top row of doors has been changed out since this picture. They installed square doors by mistake, but we had chosen arched doors for the top, so they switched them out.

















On Monday, the painters arrived and started painting the walls and trim. Looks good so far. I think we are going to be happy with our wall color. The house is still kept locked, and we aren't allowed to have a key, so we don't get to go inside every day. If we are lucky, we may find a door unlocked or the garage open, so we can sneak in and look around! Consequently, we haven't been able to take as many pictures as we would like along the way. Look for pictures of the paint coming soon!

Also, our builder finally gave us a potential closing date. They said we would definitely be in our new home no later than July 27! Whoohoo!

La Casa de Los Freeny Siete

The trim carpenter has finally started trimming our house. We had to wait almost 3 weeks on him while he was finishing the house next door. We met with him on Monday morning to discuss what we wanted as far as the cabinets, closets, etc. We both felt pretty good about it. So far, the work looks good. He has finished putting up and trimming the interior doors and some of the closets, as well as started on the kitchen and bath cabinets. I say he, but actually there is a crew of about 4 or 5 people helping.

Unfortunately, this stage means our house has been locked up with "work locks" which we aren't allowed a key to. If we want to go inside, we have to call and ask them to leave it open. This means we won't have as many pictures to post right now. But I will post them soon enough! We are hoping to close on the house by the end of July. We were hoping for the end of June, but since we are going to New York City the first week in July, that would have been pushing it to get moved out of the apartment and into the house. This should work out better. Also, we are excited to be going to Memphis this weekend (June 8-9) to see Norah Jones in concert at Mud Island! Look for pictures when we get back. Hope we get an autograph!