New PICTURES and more to come tomorrow

Dormers are finished!

Porch railing is DONE

Tounge and Groove Ceiling and hardwood floors

This is what Nick did because I haven't downloaded pictures in sooooo long :)

Getting closer..

side of house completed

finishing up siding on front of house

sheet rock!

master bedroom with sheet rock and tub

view of some of the kitchen from living room

living room. We will have v-groove for the ceiling instead of sheet rock

Fireplace that will have stacked rock



Back bedroom



view of kitchen/ dining area from side door

sprial stairs

basement with insulation



Nick and I posing for a quick picture



back of house with logs completed

Dad and Nick discussing house stuff while I am thinking how happy I am that I do not have to put up the siding on this huge side of the house

Basement with airconditioner monster coming out of ceiling

Front of house (don't worry, we will have windows in the dormers soon)

Logs, Insulation, and Sheetrock

So much has been happening at the house lately. I really need to take lessons from my mom of how to update the blog more often :)

Logs were delivered all the way from Michigan on Feb 7th. The delivery guy got to town early and had to spend the night at Days Inn and arrived at our house the next day bright and early. Nick and I were so excited that the logs had arrived, we just had to go take a look at Days Inn at 11 pm just to see the truck with OUR logs!

Once the logs came, I had to go to the paint store and pick on the stain color that I wanted. If any one knows me, I am not the best with decision making so this was not too easy. But only after 1 try, I had the color I wanted!

Nick staining the logs. Lynn and Grandmama Dixie discussing the logs

Some of the trim stained.

The process of putting logs up has begun! (The big bundles hiding the view of the house are more logs)

 

Time for a longer ladder!



Almost there! Thank goodness for the bucket lift!



The very last peice..for the first side of the house



 



One side down, 3 to go!!



On Friday, while Nick and I were staining logs. The AAA insulation came to spray our insulation. The guys had to dress up in alien suits and started spraying. It was pretty amazing how quickly it was done. By the end of the day, our house looked like marshmellows exploded everywhere! We used the foam insulation. After they were all finished, there was a lot of extra foam left over. I wished I would have saved it to make me a new pillow or shoe inserts because the foam is so squishy and soft!

Only after about 10 minutes one side of the house is insulated!

Today, the sheetrockers delievered sheetrock. This truck was stopped on the side of the road while the other truck was in the driveway unloading. I had to stop and snap a quick picture.

Just one of the many bundles of sheet rock

Hopefully, they will begin hanging the sheetrock on Monday.

Congrats!!!!

A quick congratulations to my sis, Amanda and Walker on their engagement tonight!! What a typical Monday night. I guess this means a double wedding for the Mills girls???

Doors and More

On Saturday, Mama, Amanda, and I made a trip to Sasser to visit my aunt at her antique store Alice and Jay's. I could have taken the whole store and put it in the trunk the of car if money and Alice would have allowed me to. Alice had this wonderful little table that kept calling my name. This perfect round table has the perfect place to call home in my soon to be kitchen. All thanks to my amazing aunt and wonderful mama. (Thankfully, Alice is allowing the little table stay at the shop for a little while longer since I have no where to store it for now.) 

The men on the table will not be going with me to the new house. Now, I am thinking that I should bring them to the new house. They would be great for keeping an eye on Kami and Bauer! 

Also, I have not yet posted any pictures of our exterior doors. The doors have been up for a month, I just have not posted any pictures of them yet. 

 French door going onto deck

 A view of inside of French door (not yet finished)

 The side door

 Front Door Outside View-  does not have the finished stain on yet

Front Door from inside

Up and Running Again!

I took a brief vacation from the blogging world, but now I am back to update everyone on the house!

A lot has been done since last post!

During Christmas break, Nick built the back deck

Standing on the deck 

Looking outside through our new french door

The back deck. Railing and a roof will be added on soon. 

We also got in our fireplace! Yes, a real wood burning fireplace! This is one thing in the house that I had to have. A log home without a fireplace isn't really a log home is it? Also, since I grew up with a real fireplace, I wouldn't have it any other way.  

The area around the fireplace will be boxed up and covered in stack rock. Also, I will be inheriting the mantel that is currently hanging above Mama and Daddy's fireplace. The mantel was found many years ago in the old tobacco barns at Meme and Grandaddy's farm and I love it! 

 As soon as Nick and Mr. Chuck got the fireplace installed they started a fire (the first of many)

The master bathtub and extra bathroom bath/shower have also arrived. You may be thinking that we are no were near ready to install a bathtub yet. The tub cannot fit through the door openings, so it has to go though the wall!

My 6ftx4ft tub with jets! 

I blame me having to have this tub on my mom. She taught me that soaking in hot bubble bath is a must for a princess 

 The tub/shower for the 2nd bathroom. 

We love to find the best deals and hunt on Craigslist to see what we can find. We were hunting for a spiral staircase. I really wanted a black staircase with wooden stairs. We searched the internet and found many places who has what we wanted, but we still had to check Craigslist just in case. And sure enough, we found a staircase for a bargain! But with every bargain, they need a little TLC to make them perfect. 

The metal for the staircase was originally white, but thankfully we know a real good painter that was able to fix that real quick. The stairs and handrail is beautiful oak wood, and with a little cleaning up, they will look good as new! 

A view looking down.

The railing painted black with no stairs 

Don't get dizzy! 

As I said before, we love bargains! This was the best of the best bargain... FREE. Actually, while still living in Columbus at my apartment we went to take the trash to the dumpster and found this fire pit sitting beside the dump. Two of the side screens were missing, but still a FREE fire pit! So Nick loaded it up and now it has a new home.  Once it was home, Heath, Nick's brother brought two old screens from a old fire pit he had to the shop, and guess what... they fit perfect! I guess we could be called dumpster divers!