Odds and ends

Sorry we’ve been so long without a post.  We promise we have been hard at work though J—still demo-ing, cleaning, and getting bids from different contractors. 

Bobby Greene Plumbing started their work, which is our first phase (re-plumbing the WHOLE house), last Friday.  It’s amazing how fast they have worked, just in a week!   We already have a new hot water heater in the garage, a tankless hot water heater in the house, water hook-up for our refrigerator, and brand new washer/dryer hook-ups ready to go.  We already recommend them highly; they gave us a great, competitive price, have very nice employees, and are working incredibly fast. 

New electric hot water heater for garage

New washer/dryer hook-ups

Thanks Bobby Greene Plumbing! (as I am singing to myself--"Bobby L. Greene and Ricky Greene, the plumbing team you like best!")

We also bought our first fixture for the house--a pot filler. It's a little bit of a luxury item, but we can't wait to get it installed. For those of you that are not familiar with the concept, a pot filler is installed in the back splash or on the wall behind the stove. It runs water directly to that area, so you do not have to carry water back and forth from the sink.

We will be going with chrome fixtures in the kitchen. Here is the one we bought:

On another note, our yard is becoming beautiful!  Although we have TONS of things to accomplish inside the house, last weekend we could not resist doing a little yard work—the weather is awesome this time of year!  We first saw the house in October and bought it in January, so we have yet to see what it looks like in full bloom.  Right now we have a two beautiful camellia bushes, snow bells popping up everywhere, azaleas beginning to bloom-out, and two amazing dogwoods that will be gorgeous by the end of this week! 

Back yard

Front yard dogwood

Front yard--jasmine around the lamp-post and pink azalea

Jasmine again :)

Double pink camellia

White camellia

We cleaned out the garage too!

Garage before

Garage after (of course, we did add some of our stuff to clutter it back up!)

It’s a little overwhelming to think that this house is actually coming together.  At this rate, we miiight be ready to move in within the next month—cross your fingers.