Brick color

Well, our lot has been cleared and they are putting up the molds to pour in concrete for the basement walls. Apparently Randy Wise came by our lot and was impressed with the view that we will have from our back deck.

I haven't been able to pick out the interior colors yet because some of their samples from last year have been discontinued and they are still waiting to get the new samples in. I should hear from them in the next few weeks though. In the meantime we have settled on the outside colors. They gave us about 11 different choices of color combinations. I took pictures of my top three favorites and then decided that I really didn't like the third one and sent Seth my top two choices. I had a clear favorite of the two, and sure enough Seth liked my favorite the best. So it was an easy decision. He also showed his coworkers the two choices and it was a clear 6 to 1 vote for the one that we picked. Most of the other choices had very dark brick colors, or the bricks were a solid color. I liked this one because the brick was lighter in color and has specks of cream and brown in the brick that will give it some variation.



We've been spending every spare minute fixing and cleaning up our current house. Painting, painting and more painting! Seth's mom also came up and helped Seth with the weeding and making the flower garden next to our front door look really nice. It looks amazingly good! Something we should have done years ago. Seth cut down the overgrown tree that was covering up the dining room window and took out all of the weeds and trimmed down the overgrown bushes and purchased a handful of new plants to fill in the bare areas, and bought about 30 bags of red lava rock. The garden area looks great now and the red lava rocks really show off the light green decorative grasses, dark green juniper type plants and azalea bushes. The inside of the house is really starting to look nice too! I'll take pictures soon.