Wow! Sorry for the delay in posting! We've actually been getting some good humoured flack for not having posted in a while! I guess the latest and greatest news with our new home building process is that as of last Sunday (Oct. 7th), they had all the wood to start framing our home, on site! YAY! Neither of us has been out there since then, but we'll be stopping by on Sunday again, after church, to see what kind of progress has been made.

We also have our final appointment with Nu-Way Floor Fashions (kudos to Connie for being such a HUGE help to us last time!), to determine our paint colours and a few other little details. We've chosen our flooring, and decided to go with a natural maple hardwood throughout the majority of the home, and then do an off-white carpet up the stairs to the second floor, and into the two additional bedrooms and down the hallway on the upper floor. We've doing a very cool ceramic-tile style linoleum on all the bathroom floors. It has a dark green base with some greys and creams interspersed throughout the pattern. For all the countertops, we've chosen a dark green flecked pattern which matches quite nicely with the linoleum for the bathrooms, as well as complements the maple hardwood perfectly. Backsplash in the kitchen is just the coolest in the world! We're going with an Asian theme in the home, and Nu-Way actually carries a lighter green tile with Japanese characters on it! So we're going to integrate in a very visible way, the Japanese language! We'll have to take some pictures of those tiles so you can get an idea of what they look like!



Also this coming week we're going to Prestique Cabinets to choose....our cabinets! They're going to match the hardwood in colour and wood (light, natural maple) and are going to be very simple with a straight cut look on all sides. We haven't decided whether we're going to put handles on the cabinet doors, or whether we're going to leave them with a little grip on the underside. We've been told by both our parents that handles will save the corners of the cabinets from unnecessary wear and tear, so we'll probably heed their advice. :-)

Anyway, short of those latest developments, until the home is actually framed, I feel that not much more will be happening! Stay tuned though - we still have photos to post!