I Love It When A Plan Comes Together

I flew out to California this week to sign the closing papers for the house and do a final walk through.  We've had a few hiccups with the closing - mostly paperwork issues.  And it was a little touch and go at the end there - there was a real danger of our closing being pushed back a few days and messing up the plans in place with the movers and moving in etc.  Plus it would require me to fly back out to sign in California.  But luckily everything miraculously came together and we were able to sign the papers before I had to head back to Utah.  I feel like I've seen the property before but I actually haven't.  I saw the empty lot back in October.  Back then the street wasn't even a street.  Just a field of dirt.  So a lot has changed.  Scott has gone down there almost every other weekend to monitor the progress and take care of little odds and ends.  Here I am at the house for our final walk through.  Since our house is literally one of the last houses in the development to be completed the neighborhood is essentially up and running at the this point.  So we won't have to be living with construction.  They are pretty much done.  The walk through was helpful - we learned all about the ins and outs of our new house.  There were a few things that were done incorrectly and needed to be fixed, but they were relatively minor and the builder is going to fix them as soon as possible.

I didn't take many pictures.  Here is Scott in our kitchen.

View from kitchen/living room to front door.

I saw a few interior pictures from the appraisal last week and I didn't like the flooring/cabinets and countertop choices that much (the ones we picked out), but I was happy to find it all looked much better in person (at least I thought so) and it will look better with stuff in the house too.  In the photos it seemed like the flooring didn't go with the cabinets, but I liked it in person.

Close up of kitchen counters and backsplash.  Very white.  The countertops are a cream colored quartz with small cream colored detail, but it looks all white in a photograph.  The backsplash is off white subway tile.  I like a very clean and simple look.  We went with one of the two default cabinet colors (for which you pay no additional fee) and they are pretty good looking I think.

Stove top.  Can't wait to use it!! The oven is so clean inside.  It will never be that clean again.  :)

Back door slider.  You can see our dirt backyard.  I was pleasantly surprised because our backyard was bigger than I was expecting.  Bigger than on the model home.  Still small, but I'm happy with it.  We plan to put in some sprinklers and a little grass after we move in. 

Living Room.

This was after I had turned off all the lights.

Kinda dark

One way down the street

The other way down the street

A slightly wider house view. you can kinda see our close neighbors.  So the way they do closing in California (at least how this new sale house was done) is that we sign the closing papers and then wait three days for the loan to be funded, and on the third day, when the loan is funded you can take possession of the house.  So we actually close on Friday (in two days), as long as there are no problems.  Scott should be able to get the keys on Friday.  Exciting!!

But I flew back to Utah to pack a few more things and get ready to move in a week and a half (after our household goods have been delivered to the house).  The kids are excited to see the house.  Emma is all ready to move to Northern California.  Fingers cross that we can finish up this move smoothly.