It's Starting to Feel Like Home

I woke up yesterday morning and for the first time I really felt like I was waking up in MY home.  It's been one month since our move in day and it's been crazy!  We still have workers here almost every day.  I feel like I have this big extended family that pops in and out.  As you can see in the photo above, Mike finished up with the barnwood on the house and the lap siding and board and bat siding is almost complete.  





The sider is about ready to move to the barn and get that sided next.

Great news!  After almost six weeks, the tile setter is finished!  He did a fantastic job, but wow...six weeks!  The showers are beautiful and I love the flat pebble stone floors in both of them.

The Guest Room Shower ( still needs a glass door)

The Master Bath walk in shower. 
 I've tried and tried to get a good picture with no luck.  I'll have to find a contortionist to come take a better one. 
I found these cute little initial plaques to put over the hooks. That way Mike doesn't steal my towel. 

The house is still bare.  Not much in the way of decor yet.  That's because the garage looks like this:

There's my other furniture and decor items...somewhere in that mess.

So here are a few interior shots, no judging!  It will be awhile before it looks all put together and I'd like to blog about each room as it transforms.  Anyway, consider these the "before" pictures.




Mike, son Travis and Mike's friend, Kelly have been wiring the barn.  That required taking a lot of stuff out of the barn.  Yes...the Beverly Hillbillies do live here.

Travis putting his electrician skills to good use.

This is why it's called a "Toy"Barn.

 Ed and the landscapers have been getting the yard area all ready for sprinklers, grass bushes and trees.  It's pretty complicated since we have quite a bit of slope down to the river.  It's hard to decide how much of the overgrown trees and bushes to take out and how much to leave in.  I like the natural look and a little seclusion from the river, but the view is so beautiful.  Hopefully we can find a good compromise.  Eventually we'd like to have grass all the way down and a little sand brought in to have near the edge.  The problem is that the edge of the river varies according to the height of the water, which changes from season to season.  Like so much of the rest of the house, this will take a few years and some patience, but it's going to be so nice!
 

 We had reason to celebrate last Sunday.  We had the first family dinner at the new house and celebrated Mike and Vella's birthdays.  What better way to celebrate than for Uncle Pat to pull out the barrel train and give the kiddies a ride!

And that's about it for now.  The crisp days of fall have been occurring more frequently, the leaves are turning and the shadows are longer.  Happy October from the Little River House..