Inside tour part 1: basement and first floor

So we are about a month away from moving in, even so, that feels like an eternity and we still have so much to do that we're exhausted just thinking about it. Now that a majority of the work is finished I thought I'd take some pictures of the inside of the house (as best I can) to give you a feel for the place. There are still a lot of things that need to be finished and TONS of painting to be done but these will serve as some nice before pictures.

So!

Here we go!

prepare yourself for the picture onslaught!

These are our basement stairs... This is how we've been getting in and out of the house as the front/back/side doors still have no stairs to the ground. So we've been going down through the basement and up through to the first floor which up until about a week ago meant climbing a ladder to the doorway that is supposed to lead to stairs down into the basement.. that hadn't been built yet.

view from the stairs into the rest of the basement (featuring new stairs!)and the ladder that we used to use...

So that's one level of the house - the basement. Moving up to the first floor,lets pretend we're entering through the front door and not climbing stairs or ladders...

This is the view of the entry and our small foyer. We weren't looking for a huge foyer because we plan on using the side entrance that will connect to the garage (currently being built) and a future mudroom as part of the garage. If you enter the house from the front door you immediately have the stairs in front of you, hallway just to the right of the stairs, coat closet to the right side and entrance to the dining room to the left.

Here's a better view down the hall. The pictures were cramped because I couldn't actually stand outside the front door to take pictures down the hallway.. I was backed up against the front door. Anyway - down the hall past the coat closet is our 4th bedroom/home office, the full downstairs bathroom and at the far end of the hall it opens up into the great room.

closer look at the office and downstairs bathroom- as you look through the french doors into the office you see a door to the main bathroom, a walk in closet, and one of the windows. Second picture is of the other side of the room -nice big windows.
The bathroom on the main floor has access from the office and hallway - which explains the 2 different views. We used the same tile in the foyer as the bathroom and even carried it up into our master bathroom.

in the great room as you come down the hall from the front door you immediately see the breakfast nook:

to the right is the living room with sliding glass doors and gas fireplace (Darrell and I actually finished putting that together this past week and lit our first fire!)

to the left of the breakfast nook is my absolute favorite place - the kitchen!

the opening in the left of the kitchen goes out into the dining room. The picture of the kitchen with the microwave in the center of the frame was taken from the dining room, actually. We have a door to the garage (eventually an opening into a mudroom) a pantry, and some more cabinet storage across from the peninsula.

Here's a view of the dining room from the kitchen. I love the huge open pass-through between the two rooms.

We've gotten a bit more done since then but I don't want to post any of those pics yet so they can be a great before/after. I'll be talking more about each room and what we picked out for the furnishings after we move in and get decorating, etc.

I'll post some pics of the upstairs soon - I've taken them already but don't want to overload this post, and I don't think they're as exciting as all of the downstairs stuff :)

Fun Fact! We actually got to start painting this past weekend!!! aahhh!! so exciting to start seeing the transformation! We're hoping to paint a majority of the house before we move in but we'll see how that goes!

Anyway, that's enough for now!