Certificate of Occupancy!

As of Sunday the 26th, Rob and I are living on the house! We received our Certificate of Occupancy on Friday the 24th and couldn't be happier! With the help of our parents and Brian and Jamie Foster we successfully moved most of our junk from Twinsburg to Solon. We will make one final trip today to pick up the last few boxes and do some cleaning, and that's it! Goodbye Twinsburg!

The McNerney Estate

38180 Aurora Road

Solon, OH 44139

Over and Out!

Wednesday, September 22nd

Last night we cleaned everything out of the house and vacuumed up all the dirt and dust.

Today carpet is being installed!

Hopefully it will all be in by Saturday!

Thursday, September 16th (Rob's B-day)

Final touches!

Most of the light fixtures have been hung!

The hardwood floor in the foyer and hallway has been installed and looks awesome! The color turned out great and matches the stain I chose for the trim perfectly!

Paramount Plumbing was back out and began the final installation of our plumbing fixtures.

Paramount should be back out one more time to finish up installing the powder room sink, bath tub and kitchen appliances.

Our front door finally came and I LOVE IT! Inspections are to take place over the next few days, and if all goes well we plan to move in next weekend!

Wednesday, September 15th

And the Great Room is looking GREAT!

Ceiling fan is up!

The stone for the fireplace is complete and looks fantastic!

Tuesday, September 14th

The prep work has been completed on our fireplace. Wednesday is anticipated for the application of the beautiful stone!

With some Spicer-Supervision, Big Al finished up the stair railings!

Kitchen looks awesome! Granite came out great! Appliance should be on site within the next few days!

Monday, September 13th

Today the granite counter tops are going in. The guys from Mason are back and are finally putting up the stone for our fireplace!

Thursday, September 9th

The driveway is being poured as we speak!

The stone for the fireplace has been dropped off and should be going in today as well!

Labor Day Weekend

With the help of both Mom's, we got a ton accomplished this weekend.

All of the second floor bedrooms, trim and doors have been painted and put in to place. The driveway is expected to be poured on Tuesday or Wednesday, and the stone for the fireplace is expected to be installed on the same days. Our evening this week will be dedicated to putting in and painting all of the remaining trim in the house. We are almost there!!

Friday, September 3rd

Today's project: preparing the driveway! The guys from EZR are back and are getting our long driveway ready for concrete!

We are stilling painting and putting up trim and doors. We have purchased all of our light fixtures, and the goal is to be in by the end of the month!

Saturday, August 28th and Sunday, August 29th

Marino was out this weekend and began the installation of our kitchen tile. He got most of the kitchen finished and should be back this week to finish the rest.

Big Al has installed all of the cabinets in the house.

^Master Bath cabinets

^Kitchen pantry and wine rack

Second floors doors have all been installed as well.

Denise was out on both Saturday and Sunday to help us do some much needed cleaning around the yard. We also put some more time in on painting the walls, as well as painting the trim.

August 24th, 2010

All of the cabinets have been delivered! Last night Big Al and Spicer started installing them in the kitchen! They look great!

Paint Colors!

We have lots of color on our walls!

^"Yam" by Martha Stewart - Dining Room

^"Crisp Linen" by Glidden - Hallways and Stairs

^"Macchiato" by Behr - Great Room

^"Russian Blue" - by Behr - Upstairs Bed and Bath

^"Forest Green" by Glidden - Loft (WRA Room)

^"Estate Vineyard" by Behr - Master Bedroom

^"Leather Brown" by Glidden - Great Room

^"Wildflower Honeysuckle" by Behr - Kitchen / Mud Room

As of Wednesday, August 18th

One Monday Mr. Rob and a painting crew came out and primed the interior walls of the entire house. The also painted all of the ceilings. On Tuesday, they started putting the color on our walls! Mr. Rob was busy painting until 11:00pm last night. At this point we have three rooms painted: two of the upstairs bedrooms and the loft. They also began painting the hallways. Today is another day of painting, so we will see tonight how far they have gotten.

Cabinets and trim are scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. Installation of these items will come in the following days! Marino from Murray's Fashion Floors is also scheduled to come out tomorrow to start laying the cement board that is to go under our tile floors! I think we will be moving in sooner than we originally thought!!

Drywall is complete - floors have been sealed!

This weekend Kait and I vacuumed up all of the drywall dust from the entire first and second floor. We also put a sealer down on the floors of the rooms that will have carpet. Starting on Monday, Mr. Rob and a friend of his will begin spraying the walls and ceilings with primer. Hopefully by the weekend we will begin seeing some color!

Monday, August 9th and Tuesday, August 10th

Garage doors are in place! Rob has a mini garage door for his non-existent lawnmower.

And our normal garage door.

Drywall taping is almost complete. This is how are ceilings will look.

Its hard to tell in the photo, but they are pretty cool in person. We hope to start priming the walls to paint this upcoming weekend.

August 4th Update!

All the siding is on the house, except for a small area on the front center gable. Most of the garage has been sided as well, except for a few small areas on the tops of the two ends.

All of the drywall is in place and they have began taping.

Hopefully all the taping and sanding will be completed tomorrow so we can start priming and painting this weekend.

Emshoff was also back out this week. They brought some more dirt in and worked on leveling out our yard. Cabinets, counter tops and garage doors have all been ordered and are expected to be delivered and installed soon. The crew from Murray's Fashion Floors will be out tomorrow to take some measurements so we can get our flooring ordered and installed as well.

Wednesday, July 28th

First floor drywall is on its way!

Tuesday, July 27th

Almost all of the second floor drywall has been hung!

Monday, July 26th

Drywall is being delivered as we speak!

Thursday, July 22nd

The dynamic duo of Uncle Raymond and Big Al have been tag teaming the siding on the house and the garage.

^ Scary, isn't it??

All of the insulation for the house and garage is in place. We can start to see now how big each room is actually going to be!

Emshoff brought some dirt in and started to level out the front yard.

We are set to start drywalling next week!