Sunny Saturday

Last night both boys went to see End Game which is the name of the new Avengers movie. One finished up in town at 9:50 and the other in Edwards at 11 pm. So good old dad drove to both theaters and picked them up. I guess it was really good.

It rained hard last night from about 5 until 10. They say snow in Denver Monday, really? May 1st is Wednesday. Looks like we’re finally closing on our loan on Monday morning at 10 am. This is a big deal and a long time coming, well over a year now. Our builder still thinks we should be done by Christmas which is hard to believe but we’ve known him and his family for over 15 years so it’s not like some guy just telling us what we want to hear, we hope!

On the house, things are going to start moving fast with us needing to pick everything from light fixtures to bathroom faucets to floors, paint, siding, doors, tile, and just about anything else you could imagine. I already went through the appliance quote and paired that down from over $50K to about $36K. Our goal is to save and cut corners in the right places. We are splurging in a few areas like heated floors in the bathrooms and I have a vault being built in the basement that’ll be like a bank vault! Looks like 3 fireplaces and a long rally cool fire pit outside. Next Friday we go see the house corners staked out and it’s our last chance to change the position of the house.

Here’s a cell phone picture from my computer file of the architects rendering to give you an idea. There’s a lot of reclaimed wood, steel and stone. This is an older picture as the chimney is now all steel. There’s a few other changes too but this is the general shape.

The backside of the house is the nicest as it’s designed for spending a lot of time outside. Everything from positioning the house correctly to get sun and not get sun, is important. The inside is really cool too, especially the Master Suite, our walk in closet, which is basically a big room, and the shower and bathrooms. That’s right, there’s his and hers bathrooms. Our end of the house is really its own wing.

The kitchen and the living room is really cool too. We’re putting in a wood fired pizza oven so you can actually have a wood fire going in the kitchen where you can cook just about anything. I ordered a commercial oven like you’d find in a restaurant and they actually aren’t that expensive, only about $5000. So the next step of the journey begins. This should (we hope) be the fun part. Everything up to now has been a lot of banking and accounting work. The design part was fun but now seeing it come together should be better.

We’ve actually been working on this for years. We started looking at lots before we even moved up here and bought a lot 3 years ago that we then sold 2 years ago, (and thankfully made money on) before we bought our current lot last May. This one has much better views and sun exposure. We didn’t know how to really choose the right lot when we bought our first one.

That’s it, time to get to the gym. We’ll have lots of room for people to come visit so make your plans now as we’re booking up fast! Have a good weekend, God Bless.

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