LANDSCAPING and FINAL TOUCHES - PICTURES (TAKEN 08/26)

We received our final weekly status update call from our PM today.  It was a bittersweet call.  We love receiving the updates every week and our PM has been great at keeping us up to date on the progress of the house.  We will miss our calls; however, we now know that we are just one more step closer to closing this chapter and moving on to the next chapter of our lives. 

According to our PM, they finished up painting the exterior trim, finalizing the interior painting, and started the landscaping.  We will receive the basic landscaping (mulch beds in front of house and a few shrubs/bushes/plants) .  Also, we will receive 7 additional trees (1"diameter breast height) to plant anywhere in the yard AND the township is requiring a row of trees (4"diameter breast height) to be planted along the main walkway, so that means we will receive an additional 8-10 trees that they will plant along the walkway.  We will be able to choice from the following type of trees - maple, oak, pear, birch, cherry.  We are pleased that we are receiving so many trees to replace the trees that we had to remove to buid our house.  However, we are not looking forward to raking up all of the leaves. 

The following are some pictures taken today (08/26/2011) of the progress: 



not sure why the mulch is not on the whole hillside -
we plan to follow-up with the PM.
RH is going to plant a ground covering, but we can't remember the
name of the plant.  We will ask our PM.




Our Home
street view




Front Door
color: Plum Jam
We didn't think we were going to like the color and
we were going to paint it black, but after seeing it painted
we decided that we like it and we are going to leave it as is.

  


Due to all of the rain, the landscapers were unable to use the heavy machines
so they had to do it the old fashion way....(see next picture)

 


...they had to rake out all of the debris

 


Back yard




Back yard



Back yard
from 2nd story window





Left side of property





Left side of property
from the driveway



Left side of property
taken from morning room
***The plants, bushes, and shrubs belong to the neighbor***
She is amazing and has been hard at work planting almost every day.





Front walkway
from driveway





front of garage





front of house
in front of Study window




closer view of the plants





front of house
in front of Living Room windows and Solarium



closer view of the plants



Ok, we know that you are probably tired of seeing the pictures of our stairs, but they finally finished the clear coat AND we absolutly LOVE our stairs.  They did such a good job and we are so happy we decided not to add a runner.  



main stairs
final paint and clear coat

main stairs
taken from foyer

main stairs
taken from 2nd floor hallway

Family Room stairs
taken from 2nd floor hallway

Basement stairs

Monday they will clean, final inspections, and the final walk-thru is on Thursday.  WOW...in less than 2 weeks we will be fully moved into our new 'HOME'.

Happy Building everyone!!!