The Good . . .

I walked through the house on Sunday and took a few pictures.  It looks really good and we are excited.

Here is the kitchen.  I love it.  I have never had a double oven so I am looking forward to that.  I think the cafe lights over the kitchen island look great.  I did not think the standard appliances would be all that great but they seem pretty good so I may not sell them and get something else.

We got the morning room upgrade and I love it.

Pictures of the family room/ great room.  I love that we got hardwood floors on the entire first floor.

Staircase

Finally our master bathroom - these pictures do not do it justice.  It really looks great.  I'm glad we got a tiled floor in the shower.

The Bad . . .

So I finally had a chance to walk through the house since the flooring has been put down, lighting installed and the appliances have been put in.  The house looks lovely and is coming together nicely, but (and with Ryan Homes there is always a but) there are a fair number of issues that we noticed that need to be fixed.  Here are a few of them:

Here are cabinets in the laundry room.  As you can see the knobs are uneven.

The stairs were recently stained to match the first floor hardwood floors.  This was done in a pretty sloppy way, but I assume they plan to clean this up before closing.

More troublesome, it appears that the builder started adding a carpet runner, which is an upgrade we did not get, and then realized the mistake and pulled it up, but the staples remain.

The stairs leading to the basement need some attention where drywall is showing through.

More issues with the trim around the basement stairs

This is a fallen recessed light from the basement that needs to be fixed.

Finally this is a minor thing, but the gutter on the front of the house is bent.

In addition one of the windows is broken.  It broke during installation, but it still has not been replaced.  The garage door is bent and is being replaced as well.  So as you can see there are a fair number of trim and finishing that needs to be taken care of before we close.

Moving Right Along

So I have not been able to keep up with this blog and match the pace of our home construction.  Construction started in late July and here we are on September 20 and our house is scheduled to be completed by October 14.  Here are a few pictures of the first floor since the drywall went up.

The first picture is a picture of the exterior of the home with siding and windows.  The second picture is in the entrance way looking into the dining room.  In an earlier post I mentioned that at the pre-dry wall inspection we noticed that these arches were not in.  That was corrected in the entrance to the dining room.  The archway entrance to the living room is still not correct.  The stairs and the stair railing are in as well.

Here is the kitchen.  The cabinets and granite turned out very nicely.  At this point they were covered while the house was undergoing a second painting over the dry wall.  The appliances will be delivered towards the end of the month.

Here is the "activity center" organization upgrade in the mudroom from the garage.  I think it will be very useful for the boys to store their backpacks and easily locate them in the morning before school.

Final picture from the first floor is a picture of the coffered ceiling in the family room.  I'm glad we chose to add recessed lighting along with the ceiling fan rough in, but we will definitely need a telescopic light changer pole.  Lol