OMG, what can happen in 5 weeks !!

On June 18, our park model was delivered to the resort in Apache Junction where we will spend our summers....Superstition Mountain Resort ( SMR).   


















On July 18,

the Arizona room was completed and we had a new home.


On July 26,

all of our furniture was delivered.



And now the fun shopping begins....we need everything.....

     Kitchen utensils  .... silverware, drawer inserts, spatulas, etc.
     Bath items...towels, mats, soap dish, etc
     Office items...printer, waste cans, pencil/pen holders
     Living room items....lamps, rug

In addition, we will now be able to begin to install the TV in the living room and hang the artwork that has been stored in St. Louis at our friend Carolyn's house.  We thank you Carolyn for making it possible for us to still have those items that are so important to us.  We are anxious for you to come visit so we can share with you that which you have made possible. 

And so we toast Carolyn also for her friendship through all these years and for all of the important and fun times she has shared with us. 

A Week of Furniture Deliveries

 

This past week we have watched as all of our already-ordered furniture is delivered. 

Something different was delivered or installed each day.

Barb and Bailey eagerly watched and waited.

MONDAY

The Container Store installed shelving in our walk in closet, pantry and coat closet

One wall of walk in closet in bedroom

Shoe shelves in closet





Pantry closet

Coat closet

 

 

TUESDAY

 

Lazy Boy delivered our media center console and fireplace.

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY

 

Copenhagen/Denmarket delivered our dining table, end table and cocktail table for living room and all of our office furniture.

 

Dining table ... chairs on order will not be in until mid August



Bailey is beginning to enjoy the furniture

Linda loves her desk and files cabinets.

The delivery guys had to
install the desk and bookcases

THURSDAY

 

Bova Furniture delivered the sofa, loveseat and chair.

 

Bailey has found his chair; he is the master of the room

 

 All of our deliveries are complete.  We are very pleased with the selections we made.
 Most amazing........ everything fit just as we envisioned it !! 

We must give credit where credit is due.  In the beginning our home was a vision and a dream.  We would never had been able to see it as it is and as we wanted it to be if it weren't for our friend Kaye Mears.  Way back in February we mentioned to her that we wanted to design an Arizona room that would blend with our park model.  We had ideas as to what rooms we would love to have but had no idea as to how to design them or how to draw a diagram for a contractor.  So one evening over a glass of wine we were discussing this with Kaye.  She said, "Draw what you want."  So I took a small yellow pad and with a pencil I scribbled several adjoining boxes and wrote room names in them.  Kaye took my scribbles home;  an hour later she had drawn to scale our dream.  Thank you Kaye.

We toast you !!

 



 





Let's take a tour of our new home !!

Now that all the workers are finished, we can take you on a tour of our home....

 

Welcome to our home !!!

As you enter the front door , the living room is to the left. 
Notice our "furniture" in front of the doors to our study.

On the right is the dining area






and kitchen.

This is the view of the kitchen standing in the dining area
and looking down the hall to the bedroom. 
The guest bath is on the right in the hallway.




The laundry room has all of the important
features including a tub for Bailey.

The back wall of the bedroom is floor to ceiling drawers and cabinets.  Not shown in these photos is the master bath and walk in closet that are to the left of these cabinets.














.

 

 After the tour, we sat on our new deck with the fencing completed

and had a cup of coffee.

OUR HOME IS FINISHED !!!

 

Happy hour and a toast to our new beginnings ..........

 

 

 

 

The sky is blue ,  the clouds are magnificent

 



 

 

 

The cactus in our garden is blooming

 

 

 

 

we are celebrating !!!!!

 

 

  

The supervisors admire their work

Jerry and Blake from Dakota Contractors  stand outside with Barbara and admire their accomplishment.  We are all very pleased.

 

 

Jerry, Evan, Doug and Blake on our front porch....

 

 

Tomorrow the cleaning crew comes in.  And they are badly needed.....

 

 

 

Bailey has his bully stick and just wants to know when all this running around is going to stop !!!

The next big challenge-moving the refrigerator

As you have seen from the photos along the way, the refrigerator is an oversized refrigerator and has been sitting in the dining room first and then the kitchen.  Finally once the flooring was down, it was time to move it into its slot.

It was a challenge....the doors had to come off, it had to be maneuvered through the hallway with about an 1/2" leeway, turned around, and then slid in.  Our biggest concern was how far it would protrude  into the hallway. 



Here is the refrigerator sitting in the middle of the kitchen

The doors are off and it has been turned around.

Sliding it into position





OOPs, they forgot to turn on the water. Up and over he went.

Three and 1/2 hours later, the refrigerator was in its place
 and all was good.

And now a week later and the inside is almost done !!

The inside work is almost done now.  The walls are painted and many of the doors are installed.

The biggest job was the flooring and that is finished.


We are very pleased with how the granite countertops and the floor tile looks in the kitchen. The seam line that you see is between the laminate floor and the porcelain tile.



That is the refrigerator still sitting in the middle of the kitchen.
 There is a recessed area for it on the left hand side of the hallway

Bailey is admiring his new dining area. 

And now he is checking out the hallway.

This is the back wall of our bedroom. 
We are very excited to have floor to ceiling drawers and cabinets.

This door will be the entrance to our office.



This is our living room. 
As you can see, it is the storage place for future items to be installed.

By Friday all should be complete and we can show you pictures of each room.

The outside is almost complete

Looking at our new home from the outside, it no longer looks like two separate structures.

All that is left to do on the outside is finish painting, put railing on deck, and install electrical outlet and water spigot.

And now another week has passed......

The walls are no longer 2x4's.  We spent 3 hours last Sunday, just Barb and me, planning where the electric outlets will go, where the switches go and where the plumbing for the washer/dryer, bathroom and outside water spigot goes.  We then met with the electrician and plumber on Monday.  By the end of the day, we had it all.

 The construction guys were working in 100+ degree weather in the direct sunlight without any shade.  I do not know how they did that every day.  They would start around 7:00 am and work until 3:30 pm. 

Once the outside walls were installed, we could actually see what the AZ room would look like from the out side.  In this photo we have the front walls, the windows and the awning.

Notice the newspaper on the floor.
 That is our living room with the sofa facing the long wall and the love seat on the side

Next the insulation is in,  the dry wall is up; the mud is over the seams and we have distinctive rooms.

Barb entered the front door for the first time.  The archway is the entrance from the AZ living room to the kitchen in the park model.

All the walls are in.  This is the living room view from the front door. 

Standing in the living room and looking back, the large opening is to the office.

The opening to the right is the coat closet; the opening in the hall is access to the master bath.

Barb and Linda standing in front of the office.

View of kitchen from the living room



View from the living room to the front of our home.

From the outside, our home is beginning to look complete.