Day before New Years Eve!!

And we have not been working on the house, even if it's never far from our thoughts. I headed out to the house yesterday and it's officiel, our electritions have never drawn as much cable and wiring as they have for us. But what do you do when both of us are pc freaks and tech freaks plus two of our sons already are! ??? :) Fredrik managed to get four more of the speaker boxes up in the ceilings. (We'll have speakers in the ceiling in the masterbath, our bedroom, the laundry room, the kitchen/dining room, living room and in the office!!) We even satt last night and finally started looking att wallpaper. I think we'll paint the walls in about half of the house but some rooms will have wall paper. Good thing was is that we didn't disagree tooooo much.
Gabriel liked the batman stuff best but we are trying to get him to pick superman instead, just because the coloring was nice , haha. We even found really cool soccer wallpaper to show Andrew, and in the proper blue color for his favorite team Arsenal.

Today we spent 3 hours running around to grocery stores trying to find a turkey but we found one!!! So tommorow it's cook, cook and more cook for me! Think, next year i'll be making this big dinner in my new kitchen!!

I've updated our photoalbum with tons of new pics and am going to chase down some of our furniture and appliances on the net so i can add them to the album. So as always, more to come.......

And a BIG Happy New Years to all my family and friends!!

Updates on what's happening

Well we made it thru Christmas and now Fredrik and I have tons of stuff to do during our time off. Fredriks out at the house today working with the electritions and I'm getting ready to go to work for a bit and open the bills and mail.
We now know we will have our inspection on the 26th of March, which means we even get the keys to the house that day if everything goes according to plan.
The carpenters have plastered all the upstairs walls and are now working there way thru the downstairs.
The electritions have drawn all the cables and pipes almost thru the whole house and have just half of the downstairs left to do.
We went and finalised most of the ceramic tiling and the kitchen is ordered! We finally found a painter that's coming out today and going to leave us a quote on all the work(our sales guy for the house totally missed this and that we decided 6 months ago that he would fix a painter and now we are ready for one to come in and still no one around).
The man that's putting in our chimney and laying the tiling will come in the middle of January and get his work done. I'll be putting out on our photoalbum http://engstrand.myphotoalbum.com the appliances and tiles we have chosen plus more pics of the house that i took right before Christmas.

Yesterday Fredrik even ordered the closets for the boys rooms, of course we are running late and they only had 4 closets in stock and we need 8 so we had to order a few.

We are even about to order all the cabinets for the laundry room plus order all of our appliances.

Yesterday I went to the paint/wallpaper store and borrowed 6 catalogs that we can look at and start getting an idea of what we want the walls to look like.

More to come...........

The house

Trying to make this site a building diary and I have to say, better late than never. I've tried a home page and all kinds of other things to keep you guys up to date. The Photo Album is ok but not enough for our own memory to know when and where things happend. Test post here and more will come!