30 day inspection & problems with the house

Yes, there is nothing written here, but I promise I will write about this as soon I have time. There is so much to tell you. 

COMING SOON...

Ups and downs

It's been two and a half weeks since we moved in but seems like we have lived in this house for much longer. Absolutely love living here. The boys especially love the space. 

The first two weeks went pretty smoothly, but problems started showing up this week. We came home from work two days ago to a cold home. The thermostat was set to 70 degrees but the actual temperature read 63 degrees. After checking if the heating system was actually on or if the fuse was out (recommend by Google search) we called the HVAC company from the numbers listed in our handy dandy Homeowners manual given by Ryan homes. The person from the company asked if there was water leaking in the tray beneath the HCAV unit. Sure enough there was water filled up. How the water got there, we didn't know. We soaked the water out and the system finally worked again. The person from the company came the following morning at 7am and checked it out. I guess there was a broken piece inside the unit. I don't know what that piece was, but it was the problem. He replaced it and now everything is fine. 

Then we found that out basement bathroom toilet was clogged. I took a plunger to it but to no avail. Called the plumber from the Homeowners Manual and he camed out and reported that the toilets didn't have enough pressure which caused the clogs. He fixed it for no charge. 

Finally, blinds. We ordered blinds from homedepot and there were delivered to our house last week and we are waiting for them to be installed. We decided to have homedepot install them which costs  us $68. When I called them today to find out what the delay was for the instillation, they said that there is no instillation order in their system. Now this conversation happened during my rush hour commute from DC, and I had it. But with my patience intact, we ordered for the instillation. Now we just have to wait for them to called us to schedule the instillation. 

It's been a crazy week. Looking forward for the three day weekend. 👍

Moved in!!

We are officially all moved in. It's been a crazy move. As much as we planned the moving part of this whole experience, it just didn't go the way we planned. But somehow we got all of our stuff in the house. I just don't know what to do with all this space! 

During the whole building process we kept asking ourselves if the Milan floor plan was the right choice spacewise. Not that we have a lot of stuff, but was it going to get cramped as the boys get older. Ryan Homes had other floor plans which offered more space. But after bringing our things in, it seems like it's a perfect size.  The bedrooms are huge. Here are pictures of the boys' rooms: 

The hallway: 

Main level: 

Dining room: 

Living room: 

Entrance: 

Morning room: 

Kitchen (excuse the mess): 

Balcony: 

Mudroom: 

Garage: 

Basement: 

:)

I need to buy more furniture to fill up the rooms 😊..the boys shared a room in the apartment so we didn't have much more furniture than the beds and toys. 

Bye for now! I am so tired. 

Porch and final touches

I just can't tell you how impatient I am. I just want to be home. Well, three more weeks!

The front porch is don't and it looks amazing. 

They stared on the landscaping and the driveway is done. Here are a few pictures of the finishing work inside. 

Our house is done!

I know it's been a while since I updated the blog, I blame December. It's been a crazy month. But...our house is finished! We had our Pre-settlement meeting with our project manager on the 18th. It was a good and very important meeting. During the meeting, the PM went through a demonstration of the house. Also, we got to tell him about any thing we saw that was wrong with the house. We found a few and our PM made sure it was fixed. They were all pretty minor. 

We close on the 26th at 2:00pm. Just can't wait. Meanwhile, we started packing.

Which leads me to..The Home Depot. We have been there so many times already! Yesterday we ordered blinds for the entire house. It should be installed in about 4 weeks.

Ready for pictures? Here are a few. Will put up more after we close on Friday!!!

It's still too wet for grass. They will put it in the spring. 

Kitchen. 

Balcony

Vinyl siding and shutters

The vinyl siding is done 😄

Porch 

:)

You can see the boys' school from the front door, I love that it is walkable distance. 

 

Floors!! And so much more!

This week they completed the floors!! And we saw a lot of other changes as well. 

Here is a sneak peak :

They had the floors covered to finish the other work. They look amazing!!! I have been waiting to see how it would look ever since we picked out the hardwood floors.

We did the entire first floor with hardwood floors. Main reason, carpet + kids = scary. 

Next favorite: granite counter top!!! 

It goes perfectly with the caninet color. Our sales associate at the design center was very helpful in picking out our options. We had so many to choose from. 

The backslash.. 

They also put in all of the light fixtures

Finally the vinal siding: 

They weren't able to complete it because is the weather but it's coming together really well!!