We have an address!

No longer do we have to refer to the lot as "0 Balden St." - It is now 2501 Balden Street! That's the big news for the week. (not a big week) Next week we get the budget numbers...I'm sure that will be a BIG week! Yikes.

Kitchen Pendants

Our weekend trip to Chicago was productive - we got some final quotes on the kitchen and worked on a lot of the bathroom fixtures at Ikea. Our most fun, though, was walking around downtown in an area of the city that seemed to be entirely composed of modern furniture and fixture stores. We happened to find a great floor sample sale...and came home with three of these "bocci" pendants for over the kitchen island. We already have the dining room fixture, which is in our current home...it will look much better in the new home. (In fact it was purchased about 6 mos before we became serious about this project or even had the land - and was some inspiration to the new home!)

Dirt Pile

So now we have this giant pile of dirt that will sit here until July. Tim is going to spread it out a little more, but the excitement is over for a while. We are heading to Ikea in Chicago this weekend (thanks, Nanny!) to figure out the kitchen and closets. Matt continues to pour over catalogs and is glued to the computer tweaking plans...but I think he's still enjoying it!

It has begun!

A big day today.... the driveway has been created in it's new location and the tennis court has been removed. (It is actually now part of the driveway!) Last week we had 4 trees removed - 3 for the driveway and 1 large red oak (which we hope will someday be our dining room table) where our septic will be placed. We obtained our erosion control plan permit last week and now have silt fence surrounding the site. Tomorrow the footprint of the house will be raised 4 feet - 2' for the foundation and then 2' more for the surcharge that will sit until the beginning of July. Our car in the photo is parked approximately where the garage will be, and the large piles are in our dining room/kitchen area. I'll try to get a floorplan posted here soon.