The painted house

Entry and lanai:


There is Billy doing something important - there was a lot of beeping - I kept thinking my my camera battery was dying:

Front door:

These shots are from the lanai. That ship out past the lighthouse looked really huge:


These are photos I took looking through the window over the kitchen sink. The day is sunny and beautiful, but really windy and rugged out on the ocean:

Drywall

I remembered my camera. The battery was charged. The memory was empty. So I have pictures!

Insulation

The house is fully painted outside (other than the lanai and the railings because those have not been built yet). It looks great! It blends into the hillside really nicely so that we are not in-your-face up on the hill screaming "look at me" which is what we were try to avoid and it seems we pulled it off. Word at a recent funeral attended by all of the long time, local, end-of-the-road folks whose families go way way back to Kamehameha ancestry is that we are doing a really nice job and they approve and feel it fits the character of the place (and we didn't go to this funural so people weren't just saying these things to be nice to us;-). I don't have any great photos of the outside yet, as I seem to always either 1.) forget my camera or 2.) I get out there and my camera memory is full or 3.) my battery is dead. That sounds like a long list of lame excuses, but the most lame part of it - is that it is the truth!


The insulation is finished:










The bathrooms are prepped for tile:


We have a front door:
It is clear glass - just covered for now.

So while I have been busy NOT updating this blog all of these things happened! Along with tons of other stuff that isn't very exciting in a visual impact kind of way, but is the kind of stuff that makes Billy happy and will result in a habitable home :)

Perhaps most exciting is that we also now have drywall up! Billy warned us that the drywall step always makes the house look way smaller. I guess people tend to freak out about that and he was trying to prepare us (and spare himself my freaking?) But seriously, the only thing that looks smaller to me is one of the master closets because before the drywall it looked like it was way longer as there is a closet that butts against it but that is accessed on the other side of the wall. Maybe I was expecting wee bitty rooms, but they look plenty big to me! High ceilings probably help with that. It looks so cool and feels so house like now! I really wish I could post some pictures of it here now, but I went out to take photos last night and, well, you can guess the rest....

Happy New Year!

And happy it will be when we celebrate the next holiday in the new house!
Everyone asks when we hope to move in. Wouldn't I like to know?!!! But things are moving along.
The electrical is almost done - and could be if we would just find time to make a couple of crucial decisions! That part is tricky considering how infrequently Billy and I see one another these days.
We did spend a couple of blissful days over christmas doing absolutely nothing related to the new house! Billy stayed home and we had fun just all being together. So decisions could have been made... but they weren't. On the upside, our family is getting pretty darn good at Rock Band! : )


We passed our plumbing inspection.
The house is primed for painting, but surf's up so it's anybody's guess when we'll see our painters next.
The floor has been decided on (Cumaru - Brazilian Teak) - probably not very "green" but I'm here to tell you that being "green" when you are building a house, unfortunately, takes way more of the other kind of green than we have to spend!
The cabinets have been chosen.
The roof is almost finished and if you look at it from only the Pololu side you can pretend it IS completely done...that's what I do anyway:) Billy has this silly habit of only seeing what is actually there. That is why he does all of the worrying and stressing out in our family;)
Here is the lanai:

the house from one end:

and the other:

Those kids back there are in the master bathroom:

the shower in the master bath with the girls' room in the background:

the kids' tub:

the roof - see? who needs another side?!:

living room with slider to the lanai:

And the man who makes it all happen! He looks great! The only thing missing is a pair of rose colored glasses;) and maybe a good night sleep...


Hope everyone had a fantastic and joyful holiday! Here's to another amazing year!