Carpet and Wood Floors Installed

The workers installed the carpet and finished the wood floors this week. Now we have a long Thanksgiving weekend before the drywall company comes out, next week, to repair the remaining scrapes and dings. Then the final paint, Blinds, Drapes, Cleanup, Tile sealing, and final punch list will occur.  Soon after that we will be moving in!

Carpet in Den

Carpet in Bedroom 3

Carpet in Guest Bedroom

Wood floors in Master Bedroom

Wood floors in Great Room

Wood on the stairs

More Progress on Melody

Several things were going on in the last couple weeks at Melody Drive. The drywallers finished mudding and sanding the walls, and now they are very smooth.  The texturing is very slight, and we are happy that it's not as "bumpy" as the old walls in Ahwatukee were.  The stucco company made good progress both on the brown coat of the house and the plastering of the retaining wall around the driveway.  The painters started their prep work inside, with the first stain of the interior doors and starting with calking and taping off.  The finish carpenter began laying out the shelves in the pantry and building out the closets in the bedrooms.  It's all coming together quite nicely!

Kitchen Taped Off And Mudded

Kitchen View Toward West

Jungle of Scaffolding

Family Room Taped Off

Driveway Retaining Wall Plaster Coat

View of Brown Coat on West Side

Upper Driveway Retaining Wall Plaster

Interior Doors Waiting for Stain Coat

More Interior Door Waiting for Stain

Interior Doors with First Stain Coat

George Checks out The Stain

Measuring the Light On The Patio

Doors Stained and Drying in the Kitchen

Awning Framed Over Guest Bedroom

This week, the framers have been working mostly on the roof.  Today, they were working on the frames of the awnings that will be over four of the windows.  We will be putting a rusted "Corten Steel" application on the roof of the awning, and then staining the exposed wood a dark color, adding a very inviting rustic feel to the house.

Roof Plate in Place

The framers made good progress on Monday and Tuesday, getting most of the roof plating installed.  This is the great room, with most of the plywood plate in place.

View of Roof Plating From Directly Below 

Roof Trusses over Greatroom

After the full day off during the rain, the framers came to the lot early on Saturday and completed the roof trusses over the great room.  The rain from the day before left things rather soggy, but the framers were able to work around it.  The other parts of the house, such as the kitchen and garage, will dry out quickly in the sunny Phoenix weather.

Reconfiguring Garage Stairs

The framers originally built the last landing of the garage stairs to walk out directly to where the cars would park.  We asked them if they could change the layout to have the stairs turn and come back toward the inner garage.  This would make it easier to get up the stairs, rather than trying to squeeze by the car door.  Dennis, our builder (on right), was talking with the framer, Ernie, to work out the details.  All part of the fun of building a custom house!