With any luck, this will be my final post before closing! The PSE&G debacle is behind us, the majority of the township inspections are scheduled for Monday, our home owner orientation is scheduled for Tuesday, and unless there is some hiccup with obtaining a Certificate of Occupancy along the way, our closing should be on Friday the 29th! Not too bad considering we were secretly starting to think/dread that mid-July would be the date. Our living situation has been awesome, but 10 months is certainly more than we had hoped to be imposing on my parents!
I recently decided to build a monster sized binder with the millions of documents we've signed throughout this process. It's really helped me star organized and stay on top of some of the nuances of building a house. You look at so many flooring and cabinet and siding options that sometimes it's hard to remember exactly what you signed yourself up for. I would highly recommend that anyone building a home try to stay organized like they've never been organized before! It pays dividends later as we've already been able to point out a few little things that needed correction before they had the chance to hold us up!
Now it's crunch time and of course I'm beginning to dread the laundry list of post-close projects I've signed myself up for! I have a sneaking suspicion that my "summer" won't be quite what it's been in years past... So far I've come up with the following as my Top 10:
- Install Ceiling fans/lights
- Window Treatments
- Paint interior
- Backsplash
- Fence
- Garage workbench/organization
- Build a new desk, a new basement table, and a new headboard
- Basement Bar
- Irrigation
- Deck/patio
I took care of that top 1 today with a mini-Home Depot shopping spree to pick up the bedroom and office fans! I'm pretty stoked that the blades are the same colors as the ones we plan to use in the living room!
So that's it for now! A quick post, but I thought an update would be nice. I wanted to make sure everyone has a week's notice before I start calling in those moving favors! I've moved a lot of crap for a lot of people over the years (you know who you are!) so it's time to cash in (hopefully) next weekend!
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