Git'er done (and a photo tip!)

My dad came down for a visit today, so we trucked out to see what we could see at the new house.  Lucky for us, the PM pulled up right as we were walking to the house, so we were able to walk around inside!  We wouldn't have dared by ourselves, the place was the busiest I think I've seen it since the framers left.  They've got a lot going on...they've put in our porch steps (which I didn't know would be brick - I love it!) and spread gravel for the concrete interior of the porch, as well as for the walkway.  The plan is to pour it today or tomorrow, and I'm assuming once that's cured they can put in our columns and finish that off.  They're waiting on another cabinet to arrive, plus there's a door that is broken and needs to be replaced, but the appliances are in house and ready to be installed.  There were a ton of workers bringing in our hardwood flooring, so that's going to go in in the next couple days, and the HVAC guy was doing the finishing touches in preparation for the electricity going on this afternoon!  Hopefully that happened.  :)  The framing guy was hard at work fixing our laundry door (I didn't take pictures of that, out of respect) and I was able to tell him which way I wanted the door to open, so now it'll open out into the loft rather than inward to the laundry room.  Much more appropriate to how I do things. Which reminds me, our master bath door opens out into the bedroom, not inward to the shower stall...and I didn't even have to ask.  :)  The garage door is in the garage waiting to be installed.  The remaining pieces of trim that go above the windows are backordered (even one of the closed houses is missing some of those, apparently), the boys' bathroom is sans sink, the asphalt guy is apparently in high demand (apparently there's only one GOOD asphalt guy in town, and all the builders want him) so who knows when that'll go in, and I haven't seen any carpet yet, but all in all it's getting done!

I did go dumpster diving, in full view of everyone, to get a sample of our bathroom tile and listello.  And then my 4 year old tried to go dumpster diving too.  Fun times.


I'm being picky with my pictures now, since I'm approaching the photo storage limit (more on that below!), but here are a couple for you.

Spot 1

We have more porch!

Ready to pour the porch

Ready to pour the walkway

Garage door waiting

Tiled but not grouted in the master

Our double sinks, I can't wait!

Photos tip for my fellow RH bloggers:

To see how close you are to your limit, sign in to your Blogger (or Google) account then go here:

https://www.google.com/settings/storage/

The box that says Free will show you the percentage of your storage that's in use.

If you're approaching your limit, you CAN get more space by deleting files (I just tested it).  To do that go here:

picasaweb.google.com

Click on the album that is your blog name, and all the pictures you've posted to your blog will come up.  If you click on any one of them it will go to a single-pic view page, and under Actions you can choose Delete This Photo.  You can also, from the multi-pic view page, click on Organize, then delete many pictures at once, but those thumbnails are TINY and I couldn't be sure I was deleting the right ones.

My advice?  If you have a ton of pictures and they're mostly of the same thing...pare them down to one or two.  I'm going to be deleting the Model Panorama - Reversed tab, because really it's the exact same pictures as the Per Plan, and I need the space for the last two weeks of my build...and after!  :)  Find the posts that have the most pictures, and pare them down.  And then be picky about what photos you post from here on out!

**edited to add: Aand M posted about re-sizing your pictures in the comments of this post on Nadase's blog.