We Have Cabinets!!!

I know it's not ,cool or hip, but I am truly excited about kitchen cabinets. In fact, since we have started building the house I have found my self getting giddy over everything from a hole, to bricks, to tiles and now cabinets.

We had a great surprise Saturday afternoon when we passed by the house. The cabinets that had been delayed and delayed were finally being installed. Our installer, a super nice guy from Victoriaville, was amazing. He installed almost all the cabinets by himself and took the time to check our preferences, measure our wine fridge to make it fit better, and just really make us feel good about his work. Its awesome to see everything together and finaly know we made good choices...

I spent most of my Sunday at the house measuring windows and showing my dad around the property. He took some awesome pictures, they are below:

The Marina

J-f and I took a walk down to the marina that is being built in our development. We bought the house in February and at that time, the marina was still in the planning phase. Since we don’t own a boat, it didn't occur to us to ask for plans. A marina just sounded fancy and posh to us. When we visualized it, we both visualized a yacht club like complex, maybe with a nice café I could go sit at and enjoy the view of the river (OK, I visualized the cafe not JF). , but so far however, it looks like the marina is just a plain old dock you can tie a boat to.

This being said, when we got down there it was awesome. They built a little gazebo, but what was really impressive was the view. It’s amazing that we are only 3 minutes from the city and yet it’s all so peaceful and beautiful. I can’t wait to get my kayak and put it in the water.

Here are some of the pics

Our furniture

JF and I went furniture shopping. We decided to take a chance and order our furniture before we actually moved in. Many people suggested we wait to see how we felt about the house, but neither of us relished the idea of living with a couch or a table for a long period of time. We both want to enjoy our home fairly quickly and the furniture we were looking at required up to 6 weeks to deliver. Living without seating for over a month seems just wrong.

IFurniture shopping with JF was fun but confusing, from the beginning he said he wanted modern or contemporary furniture, when in fact, it turned out he really meant dark furniture. became suspicious of this when he pointed out this type of table. Luckily, he actually likes contemporary though, cause or else it would have been more difficult.

We got a great deal on some chairs at the Maison Corbeil liquidation center. They are beautiful chocolate brown leather chairs and when you sit in them, it feels like your getting a nice warm hug.

The sofa will actually be white... or light grey; I am still trying to decide. We chose thick velvety corduroy (the same as the pillow on the chair), but we are a bit worried about that choice. I know it will look awesome against a dark chocolate of turquoise wall, but I’m afraid, at least slightly. The picture is of the sofa in leather.


The dining room table is very sleak. It’s made of ash and we will be getting it in Moka to match our kitchen cabinets. It’s designed and made right here in Quebec by Poitras.We are taking the table, but we chose white leather chairs to contrast the dark table. They were both cheaper and in my opinion look better. The buffet will have to wait for now.

Counting down the last weeks.

The Big Dig

We got the call today, the one telling us that work has begun and our house is now officially under construction. So what did we do? We went down to visit the hole and inspect our soon to be basement. Here are some of the memories.


This is us standing in front of the hole
Here I am in our future garage
Having some fun with the machinery. I wish I had a hard hat

JF eating his celebratory Wendy's double burger

Interior choices

These are the tiles and the cabinet colour selection for our bathroom, we will not be using the smallest tiles. The big ones will be on the floor, the medium ones on the bath and shower

OK, so the time came to meet with the designer and make the choices for the interior of the home. This was a major point of stress for me and I found the idea of it fairly overwelming. So I dragged JF on many excusions to try and figure out what we liked.

We went to many a furniture store and looked at many photos on the internet to try and decide what style we wanted and so on. We also spent some time at the model house looking at all the samples to try and get ready. I like to mull over decisions for a while so this made me rest a bit easier.

In the end the day went really well and it was not as hard as I thought. The designer, Julie, was helpful at telling us where we should put the lighting fixtures and as for plugs, well we had so many in each room, that it was not really a big deal. With 1 to 2 plugs on each wall, I'm pretty sure we won't miss any.

This is our kitchen selection, can you seen why we fell in love with the marble

We did screw up a bit with the counter choice. The granite counter top we chose turns out to be marble. We had asked the designer because after years of being quizzed by my dad about igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock, the slab did not look like granite, but she insisted it was granite. Chances are we will need to change it because apparently marble sucks as a countertop, but we will call the designer on Monday to check.

Let us know what you think

Pam

Photos of our exterior choices

Here are some photos of our lot and the choices we made for the exterior of our soon to be home.