Finally...

Well that sure took a while!  What part you might ask.  Getting the sidelights to our front door installed!  Apparently they were broken when the door was being transported from the manufacturer to Muus Lumber so Muus decided to fill in the sidelight slots with plywood and give us our door.  They told us they would send someone out to replace the sidelights once the new ones came in.  Well that was back in August when we installed our front door and they just now got around to installing them for us even though we've had the sidelights in our basement for months now. 

It was a bit more noticeable not to have them once we moved in because it wasn't sealed with the plywood in the slots, with our strong winds up on the hill it would whistle really bad, so we're really grateful to have those holes in our house sealed!

And someone please remind me to lock my front door!  Construction workers around here feel like they can just walk into any house without knocking.  Yeah, talk about an awkward moment when they realize it's not a construction zone but a family's home they just walked in on!  That's happened more than once around here and the last one I was at least glad to find out he was here to install our sidelights.

For the first few days after they were in I would do a double take every time I walked by my front door thinking that the door was left open since I wasn't used to having windows there.

I really love the look of our front door with the sidelights!

installing the sidelights

they're in!

the detail

so pretty!

Railing & A Door

First things first, because we decided to move into the house on such short notice everything wasn't quite ready for our family, especially with having little ones running around.  I understand completely why they require the railing to be up, that sure makes your heart skip a beat when the kids are running around with no railing to stop them if they get too close to the edge so that turned to our top priority to get that finished as soon as we could after we moved in!  I must say that I really like my railing!  I'm so glad we spent a little extra for the wrought iron, it's beautiful.  The wood posts will eventually be stained, yeah I know I left myself quite a job not doing it ahead of time but time did not permit for that to be done before we installed them.

Zeke helping Nate get the railing put up

they were so excited to be here with their Dad while he was working, finally all together!!

there's the railing, minus one by the wall that wasn't sent to us

Another important item that needed to be installed... the bathroom door.  Yes, we went a few days without it and that's fine when it's just our family but when we have visitors, friends (sorry Emily!) or people coming to do work on the house the situation can get a bit awkward, so the one and only door as of yet is our bathroom door, the other doorways have stylish second hand sheets hanging on them!

the door opens out into the hallway, the bathroom was a bit small and it really wouldn't work to have the door open in to the bathroom so we're just learning to shut it after we come out and thankfully you can still walk by the door even if it's open.