Walking through: PDI inspection day!

What a day! Our Pre-Delivery Inspection was this afternoon, and aside from a few little hiccups with a few cosmetic details, we are so excited about the house!! The final details came together so beautifully, we couldn’t be happier!

A couple days before our PDI, I thought it would be wise for us to visit the Tarion website and print off a couple checklists in order to be able to get familiar with what to expect during the process. Since buying a newer home was a first for us, I wanted us to have a general idea of what to look out for.

During the PDI, you get to walk around the house with the builder's inspector and highlight a list of things that should be fixed and looked after. We got to nit pick at the stupidest little details.. We pointed out chips and dents in the hardwood, some 'shoddy' paint job in the living room and bathrooms, brick work needing to get done on the front of the house, you name it; we picked at it. In the end, you are purchasing a home (which is a serious  investment) and it is important to get those little cosmetic details fixed in order to be completely satisfied with the end product.

Their motto, If it bothers you they will fix it to make you happy. But so far, no complaints here!

I was extremely delighted to see our gorgeous maple mantle completely stained, they did a beautiful job!!

Also, our hood fan was installed! look at this thing! :)

We have a meeting with our lawyer to finish up the documentation Thursday morning, and then we officially become the proud owners of this gorgeous home!!

Can't wait!!

Admitting we were wrong... Hardwood closure

Earlier this week, we had an ‘official’ walk through at the house with our design consultant to see the hardwood flooring in all of its glory. You know.. The one we initially thought they ‘muffed up’? And you know what guys? We were completely wrong. As it turns out, florescent lighting at the design centre can completely change the look of anything, including color shades in hardwood. To the T , this is exactly the flooring we picked out. AND it looks ahhhhhhhhmazing!

Our consultant was super cool about the whole situation; I could tell she was a little nervous about meeting up with us in the first place. But once we told her how happy we were about everything, she looked relieved, if not ecstatic for us! She later told us she thought today was going to be a crappy one.. she wasn’t looking forward to the meeting she was attending later on with a ‘not so happy couple’ who completely hated all of their design centre choices. (Oops!)

While we were going through the house, we noticed a bunch of official paper work neatly arranged on the breakfast bar in the kitchen. Apparently they were starting their QA (Quality Assurance) walk through later that morning. It looks like we aren’t too far away from the finish line!!

Next Tuesday is our scheduled PDI walk through, where we’ll get the pleasure to take our house for a test drive and nit pick at a ton of little details that bug us. (Not that there are many).

  

I am a little nervous on what we’ll see. Don't worry, it’s the really good 'butterfly in your tummy' kind of nervous.

In 5 days, we’ll have a big blue bow on our front door.

We can’t wait!