When we started the home building process in early 2013, I began documenting the process on Instagram. I didn’t blog about it much because it was really just a handful of photos every now and then. (I promise that when the house comes together and I have everything how I want it, I will do a real tour.)
I decided to create a hash tag and I dated the pictures so I could sort the photos with the hash tag and look back to compare the progress photos.
Over the past 12 months, it has been so fun to watch our home go from a lot in the Forest Acres area to a home where we can grow our family.
We have settled in very nicely. We have unpacked every single box. We still have a little bit of organizing to do, and we haven’t put the finishing touches on everything yet. But it’s coming along. We are so comfortable and so happy to be home. Even the dogs are sleeping more soundly than ever!
Here’s a fun look back at #carrollhome2013!
We first looked at the lot in January of 2013. We designed our plans with the architect and it took a little over a month to finalize everything there. Then we waited on the city to get the building permit and line up everything to get the project started. At the beginning of April they started clearing the lot.
April 21, 2013- starting the foundation/crawl space
April 29, 2013- more crawl space
May 3, 2013- sub flooring is going down
May 4, 2013- the framing process began
May 21, 2013- More framing and moving into the upstairs
May 23, 2013- front view of more framing
May 25, 2013- First time to see the dormer in the room over the garage
May 29, 2013- we have exterior walls! You can’t see straight through the house anymore
June 4, 2013- Looks like it’s coming along
June 17, 2013- We have shingles on the roof!
July 18, 2013- We have windows and the brick work is getting started
July 31, 2013- More exterior progress. (In the midst of tons of rain. It rained and rained and rained this summer)
August 26, 2013- We have sheet rock and they started to mud the walls! We visited the house every single night over the summer. We were incredibly excited!
September 12, 2013- The trim work got started and we started to see molding, built-ins, window trim. All very exciting!
September 12, 2013- We got to see the beginnings of the outside porch and fireplace
September 18, 2013- Hello, exterior columns!
October 11, 2013- The first peek at the dining room and the main paint color (Sherwin Williams Sea Salt at 50%)
October 13, 2013- All the hardy plank is up and the cedar shakes. Just waiting to get painted
October 15, 2013- The doors were painted and hung. The door color is Sherwin Williams Unusual Gray
October 30, 2013- The first peek at the bathroom counter tops
October 30, 2013- And the laundry room counter tops
October 30, 2013- And the kitchen counter tops
October 30, 2013- And another view of the kitchen in progress
November 5, 2013- The lighting installation began
November 9, 2013- More kitchen progress and lighting
November 11, 2013- Exterior is painted (Agreeable Gray) and concrete is poured. Garage door is installed
December 2, 2013- The day before closing
December 2, 2013- Dining room chandelier
December 4, 2013- The day we set up cable and internet and the alarm system
December 4, 2013- The master bathroom
December 4, 2013- The front porch ceiling (Benjamin Moore Palladian Blue)
So fun! I’ve been standing in the same spot and taking pictures of our progression too! I love seeing it develop!!
Love your faces with the keys! It is a beautiful house, I hope you enjoy every minute of living in it!
LOVE LOVE LOVE. just gorgeous. i think you definitely made the right choice to build!
Love, love, love your kitchen! And the gray door is a great idea! I might have to steal that one for the home we’re remodeling!
Gorgeous!! It is magazine worthy even through instagram pictures! Can’t wait to see more home tours in the future!
Erin, I am LOVING the pictures of the new home. The accent touches – like the grey interior doors and the blue porch ceiling – are gorgeous. Such a fun way to make your home uniquely yours. And I love ALL of your lighting choices. If you ever decide to share where you found some of those amazing fixtures, I’m sure all your readers would appreciate it:)
So glad you guys are finally in your new home and are making it yours!:)
What a gorgeous house , enjoy!
love it! date soon???
Love seeing it all come together!! You new home is absolutely gorgeous! I can’t wait to see more as you put your finishing touches on it 🙂
I am in love with your home. It’s absolutely stunning!
Oh I love this! I love all the paint colors…thanks for sharing them! I will be pinning a lot of these pics to my secret house board. Hope you don’t mind! You have such a good eye for design!
What a beautiful home! And what a great idea about incorporating a hashtag! I hope you’re enjoying your second day of 2014! 🙂
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SO fun to walk through the process with you. I love your home, and I know you’ll have many many happy years there. Can’t wait to see more photos of the rooms with your things in them.
What a year! And such a great ending that you got to be in your home for Christmas and NYE! Happy New Year Carroll Family!!
Cute Pics! We move into our new house in about 15 days, and i’ve been doing the same thing. It has been so exciting to see it coming along. The first part seemed like it took forever, and then it feels like the last month or so there is always something new to see when we go visit it. Love your colors and can’t wait for a house tour!
The place looks absolutely amazing! I can’t wait to see how you decorate it…so happy for you guys!!! What an awesome way to start the new year!
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I am just so happy for your family! It is a gorgeous home and I know you will be very happy there!
Your house looks beautiful! I wish you all health and happiness in your new home!
Your home is so very beautiful! Love every little detail.
I LOVE your house! So cute and very Southern. Is your brick reclaimed? My parents house in Louisiana is reclaimed brick and I LOVE LOVE the character it adds to the home.
Oh my WORD, what a dream! Can’t wait to see a full tour! I particularly love your doors 🙂
I just love it all – the colors are so soothing. I’m so happy for your family and praying you have a blessed New Year in your new home. It’s lovely!
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Wow, wow, wow! What an absolutely stunning home. Congratulations!!! Happy settling in.
Such a beautiful home! Thank you for letting us watch the progress!! I’m looking forward to your home tour. 🙂
Thanks for sharing all of these pictures! Everything is so beautiful and I love all of your choices, especially the lights. We are in the process of building a home right now, and are living with my in-laws, so I could relate to your living situation while building. I can’t wait to see more pictures so keep them coming. Everything looks just perfect! I’m actually blogging about the whole experience so we can look back and have a record of how our dream home came to be. 🙂
I love it all! It has been so much fun watching the updates. So happy for you and your beautiful family. 2014 is going to be an amazing year fir the Carroll Family.
Isn’t crazy how different paint looks inside ( door) and outside (planks)in the same color( agreeable gray)?
Beautiful! The waiting and decision making has paid off. Now enjoy!
Ooops! So sorry. I read the paint colors wrong. Unusual gray & agreeable gray. My bad. I love both:)))
Erin your home is beautiful! I’ve enjoyed following along with your journey via Instagram and on your blog. Congratulations to you and your family – you have impeccable taste. 🙂 xx
Wow. Just beautiful. I can’t even imagine building/having a forever home. That is such a foreign concept to me. I’m a bit envious, actually! Happy New Year. xo
Love these!! So cute of the boys on the built-in! You’ll love it forever!
I love all of your lighting selections!! Wow! Real show stoppers!!
Enjoy!
BEAUTIFUL home! This home looks a lot like a Frank Betz plan we are about to start building. Would you mind sharing the floor plan name? Thanks, Amy
Very up and coming area- hopefully the back view isn’t too scary- the view is very interesting…interior is exactly as expected as well….how very, very middle class.
I’m so glad I stumbled upon this- I love your selections! My husband and I are building a home for the first time too, but we’re a few months out from our closing date. I have to talk myself out of visiting our home every day, and in the meantime I just look for blogs like this so I can live vicariously through people who are settled 😉 http://www.pottymouthedmommyblog.com
OH MY GOODNESS! I’m in LOOOOVE with how beautiful everything is looking!! I can’t wait for the official tour!! Drooool!
Love, love, love. I just called my husband and asked him to get a sample of Sea Salt when he goes to SW today. Your house is an inspiration.
What a great idea with the hashtag! It will be so nice for you to come back and look at where it all started. Your home is beautiful!
Love your house and all your paint colors! What color is your garage door?