Thursday, April 30, 2015

That truck has my house on it!!!!

I visited the lot today after spending over two hours at the design center choosing grout colors.  Listen.  Grout is important, I get it.  It can make your tile color pop and your shower look stunning.  We remodeled our kitchen and two of our bathrooms and deciding on grout was like, no big deal.  Here's the thing, I did those projects one by one.  Going through several different bathrooms and a laundry room in one sitting and having to decide on these tiny details made me want to stab my eye balls out.  At least I'm starting to get what these design center appointments are all about and I came armed with a super large iced tea to get me through.  So, like I was saying, I visited the lot today and I saw the most amazing thing… our house was on a truck!  It was all neatly piled up, just sitting there waiting to be put together.  

And then I saw this and squealed for all the workers around me to hear
Those are two very important walls.  The one facing me holds our future front door where we will  welcome all of our family and friends.  The one adjacent to it is one of the walls to our wine room.  Well, according to the builder and the design center it is the "den" but for the Geetings it is most definitely the Wine Room!  

Saturday, April 25, 2015

High Point Market

I am still reeling from my trip to High Point Market.  What an incredible experience.  High Point, North Carolina is where the majority of furniture is made in America.  Who knew?  Every major furniture designer has a showroom in High Point for designer access only.  Twice a year they have market where designers from all over the country converge and wander through hundreds of showrooms picking up pieces for their clients and upcoming projects.  I had the amazing pleasure of being a part of their spring market.  With my mom along for support we tackled High Point in two days and came home with 31 beautiful pieces for the new house.  

So excited about this sofa I ordered in a plush, navy blue velvet fabric.  Chloe our Great Dane is certainly going to appreciate this purchase.  

Tufted Dining Chairs, LOVE

Tufted dining chairs with a velvet back
 Oh-La-La 



This beauty might be my favorite piece



Also, this happened yesterday…

As excited as I am about the new house, I'm sure going to miss this place.  We will have lived here for 9 years.  It's the only home Hayden has ever known and the only one Madelyn remembers.  We have so many incredible memories nestled into the walls of this place.  We've remodeled every inch of it making it our own.  But now my hope and prayer is that it can become a wonderful home to a new family that will cherish it the way we have.  Hopefully that family comes sooner rather than later.  Like this weekend.   Yep, this weekend works.  Having two mortgages scares the bejesus out of me.  

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Today was a day I've been so excited for, I finally went to the design center and picked out some fun details for our home.  The first choices to be made are on the secondary bathrooms and laundry room.  So, I sat amongst a pile of marble, glass tiles, and border trimmings and planned out Madelyn's bath, Hayden's bath, the guest bath, powder room, and the laundry room.  While I was there, I chose our carpet and hardwood too so I would have a better feel for the overall color scheme.

 I'm obsessed with Calcutta Gold Marble.  I found it while scrolling through Houzz and knew we were a match made in heaven!  

For the laundry room and Hayden's bath


Madelyn's bathroom color scheme.  She approved.  Phew.  That girl can be very opinionated.  

Distressed, dark, hardwood floors… oh how I've longed for you.  I left you back at our townhouse.  Then we moved and I didn't have the heart to tear up our Italian Travertine but it's been YOU all along.  We shall soon be reunited.  

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Never knew cement could look so good!

We came home from Maui late last night and I could hardly sleep because I was so excited to see the progress at the house in the morning.  When I pulled up to our lot I was not disappointed.  Cement!  Lots and lots and lots of pretty, shiny, cement!  Woop Woop!  The guys were laying the final bits of foundation today.  I also had a phone conference with the company providing the sound, security, and general technology for the house.  It is beyond incredible what they can do now with technology and your home.  Apparently, our house will be a "smart home."  That's super because I could really use some help checking Madelyn's math homework.   




The guys working on what will be our garage storage area

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Options GALORE!

Today I picked up our packet of upgrade options.  Sounds fun right?  I thought so too until I looked through the packet.  Do I want a 4 can light package with dimmer switch?  Or do I want a 6 can?  Do I want LED?  How about the GFI's?  Where would I like those?  Single pole switch?  Single pole switch with dimmer?  AHHHHHH!  I finally got to the good part, do we want a wine fridge in the master suite?  Why yes, yes we do.  We have a month or so to figure out all of these upgrades and make our decisions.  Although I did have to decide on one thing today, our banister style.  Not really what seems to be a pressing issue at this stage but what do I know?  So one thing we know for sure, we are going with a two-tone wood banister.  I think Preston about fell over at the notion of me picking the cheaper option (I am not known for my frugality) but I like the look of the wood banister over an iron one and our stairway is not visible at all until you reach it at the end of a hallway so the cheaper wood option it is!