Final Post: Merry Christmas to all

This will be our final posting on this blog.  Now that we have moved in and our celebrating our first Christmas we would just like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

This blog will stay up as long as time allows and is meant to serve two purposes:

1. To allow our family, and in particular our children, to see how our new house came to be.  We are not sure how the internet will evolve in the future but the hope is that this can be shared with family through the years.

2. To share the 6 months on how our house came to be with everyone.  Building a house takes time, effort, energy and the love of a project.  So if you are interested, then please look back on this blog and if you have questions email us and we will try and help.

To all, thank you and stay tuned as we await our next adventure.

It is Finished

The journey to build the new Wendling home began many years ago when Rosanne dreamt of building a home on the East Side of Port Colborne - near the school went and near her mom's home.

Later after seeing the land and doing some research Kevin and Rosanne were eventually able to buy the land while living in South Korea.

Four years after that, with the help of Rijuis Home Design and Lucchetta Homes the dream came to life and now just a few days before Christmas the Wendling family is seeing the fruits of many hours, days, weeks and months of labour.

Our home is complete and during the Christmas holidays the Wendling's will be moving from one part of Elizabeth St. to another .

The house with its kitchen:

staircase:

beautiful windows:

bedrooms for the kids:

master bedroom

en suite bathroom (very unique):

garage:

laundry room:

and many other aspects:

is truly a beautiful home that will hopefully serve the Wendling's for a very, very, very long time.

We would like to thank Rob and Ed for all of their hard work and leadership and all of the various trades and workers who have help to make our dream a reality.

As you can see from the pictures we have a beautiful house for our family - a place that we can truly call our home.

Day by day things continue to happen at the construction site.  Hardie plank is going up and as you can see above, and the pictures  toward the end of the blog, that the Hardie plank is almost finished as the front is the only area that needs to be finished.

As day turned dusk and the workers had left on a Friday afternoon, Kevin along with Ariel, Matteya and Kyara (all pictured above) had the opportunity to tour the house.  Let us go take a peak with them.

On the main floor is the living room and kitchen.  Our cabinets, worked on by Cabinet Solutions by Keerkes looks amazing and is awaiting for the appliances to arrive in the near future.  Towards the back on can see the laundry room.

Pictured above is the living room, with newly installed hard wood floor.  The painting is now complete and the colours match very nicely.  

Next is the master bedroom which is accented by a bright red room and grey/biege carpet.  Although it appears to be ready to be moved into we are not quite there yet.

As well is the den or spare room.  This room, complete with window seat is also nearly complete.

Unfortunately, Mia was unable to come with us on this day, she had a prior engagement with Phineas and Ferb, however, she would want you to know that her room comes complete with princess pink.

Ariel is showing her room off near her window seat and look at her aqua/neon green/not quite sure the colour of her walls.

If its yellow then it must be Matteya's room.  Matteya has always loved yellow and with the brightness of the sun she poses in her room on a grey-dusk day.

Kyara is showing off her room with a little style - we were lucky that Mia and Kyara wanted the same colour - or were coaxed to have the same colour.

Finally, Justine's room is also look good with the same green/blue colour and similar brown carpet.  The house is really looking good as all the trades have done a great job.

Picture above and below is the girls bathroom.  Complete with two sinks, make-up area, in all a four piece bathroom for the 5 girls.

Around the back of the house our deck is being worked on, although it will not get a lot of use in the window - come spring it will be a popular space.

In all, the back of the house shows all of the work still be done at the house.  With stone, Hardee plank, fascia and ground keeping/landscaping being completed in December.  All looks great!!

So as the sun goes down in the west one can see the great progress going on at our house.  We are awaiting to move in soon - but know that as the house is being worked on it does take time to not just do the job but doing it right.  However, sometimes, like Christmas, the anticipation is really hard to bear!!

Yet, we know our wait will not be long...not long at all.  

Stay tuned!!

A Little Colour if you Please (and a lot of other work)

As we come to the end of this chapter in the journey we see from the above picture that the Wendling house will soon be completed.  The Hardie Plank is almost covering 3 of the 4 sides and soon all 4 will be covered.

As well, the electricians have been working at putting up the light fixtures.

The carpets and hard wood floor will soon be laid towards the end of this week or the beginning of next week.

One of the most interesting rooms in the Wendling house hold is the ensuite bathroom to the Master bedroom.  As you can see it is painted a bright red with a wood vanity. 

The floor, shower and around the bath tub have a unique tile - a type of natural stone which will give the walls and floor some definition and unique feel.

As well, the staircase from the 1st to 2nd floor are freestanding stairs, pictured above.

The metal bars are quite stunning and accent the stain as well as the brown walls on the house.  One of the most difficult things one can do when building a house is to take the different components of a house - paint, stairs, tile, carpet - and put them together.  Luckily we had lots of help in putting these ideas together.  From Lucchetta Homes we had lots of support from Ed, Rob and their staff.  As well, we took lots of pictures and ask friends and family what they liked.

Not only is being done inside but there is lots going on outside with electricity, fascia, placing of columns and much more.

One of the neatest things to watch is what the finishing carpenter has been doing with the 3 window seats in the house and the work being done in the closets.

Still, there is much to be done.  Corners like this in the house look all but finished but there is much to do.  But the long wait is almost over and soon (hopefully very soon) the Wendling's will be moving in.