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

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

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.

Our exterior choices

Hummm, well we haven’t been that good with the blog, but hopefully as things move on we will get better.

We have already chosen our exterior for the house. We went with “Boston brick”, they are dark brownish red bricks that mix multiple tints within them giving the house a spotted look. Our doors and windows will be black and the aluminium siding with is a light almond tint, a beige that is more grey then yellow.

The whole process took less than a half hour and hubby and I got along wonderfully, which is hopefully a good sign. We disagreed slightly on the roof, he wanted black, I wanted brown, but we compromised on a more grey toned roof.

Now off shopping for furniture and interior ideas… the interior choices are coming up in a few days.