Slate tiles and doors

Our front door is in. This is a mahogany door stained natural. (The blue tape will be removed from the glass.)

The back door is in too:

The windows by the front door look great with the stucco and white metal band that surrounds the house:

We’ve got black slate down in the kitchen and master bathroom. We’ll be putting this in the other bathrooms too. It’ll look nice when it’s polished and sealed. The kitchen will have sleek white glossy cabinets on the back wall and a long island with grey glossy cabinets in the front which should complement the black slate floor well.

Kitchen:

Master bathroom:

Here are some updated views from the street. The stucco will be painted and we still need to put in the panels on the parts of the house that are simply wrapped.

More stucco work

Here’s how the back of the house with the stucco looks. It still needs to be smoothed out so that it doesn’t look so rough. We also don’t know yet what color we’ll paint it, but perhaps a grey color with steel blue for the panels on the front of the house. In this photo, you can see the metal strips that wrap the house all the way round. These are going to look great as an accent and they coordinate well with the white metal trim of the windows and the white metal roof:

The scaffolding is set up to stucco the recessed areas on the front of the house. Here it is under the two-story front porch:

And the exterior doors have been delivered and are ready to install:

Stucco goes on, wood floors are in, big closets, etc.

We’re moving right along… here’s a photo of the really large walk-in master closet. It’s about 9′ x 14′ so it’s really the size of a small bedroom. Can’t wait to get in there!

The oak floors have been installed througout the house. We can’t seem to decide how to stain these. We’re debating staining them a dark ebony so that they look almost black, bleaching them so they’re almost white, or staining them a really light natural color. Because the house has so many windows and is so bright, the darker floors would work but they might bleach out. The lighter bleached or natural floors might also look good. Hmmm… can’t seem to decide! This view is from the loft area into the living/dining area. They supports for the cable railing have also been installed which are the metal posts sticking out of the floor in the loft area. We’ll be adding cables to these for the area that overlooks the living/dining room.

The narrow window in the master bedroom above where the master bed will go was also installed. It’s got a protective cover on the exterior due to the stucco installation.

The steel support beams for the railing on the two third floor decks have been installed. These will have cables throughout them to keep people from falling off! This photo is from the covered porch on the west side of the house

And this one is on the uncovered deck on the east side of the house facing midtown:

This week they’ve been putting hard stucco on two sides of the house and in all of the recessed areas such as under the porches, etc. The other two sides of the house will be 4×8 panels. We haven’t decided on colors yet for the stucco or panels. Here they are mixing the stucco. It’s been over 100 degrees in Atlanta the past few weeks so I feel for these guys working in the heat every day.

They’re working three stories up on the scaffolding:

Here’s what it looks like as the stucco goes on. This is in the back of the garage by the entrance to the mother-in-law suite:

Commercial glass windows are in

After a fairly slow week of not much progress being made on the house, today they are installing the commercial glass windows. These are really tall so installation is no small feat. Considering Kyle is 6′2″, you can see how tall they are. Here’s a picture of the window frames prior to installation:

Here they are being installed, The frame goes in first, followed by the glass panes:

This is what the view from the outside looks like with the commercial window frames in:

They also installed the doors from the master bedroom on the third floor to the deck:

And this is the view from the picture window in the master bedroom:

On another note, the structured wiring plan involves a whole lotta wires: