BentleyBlonde

Hi Beauties . & Happy October! We're finally in the home stretch now, it's officially closing month! Our house is nearing completion, and almost everything is done aside from carpet, finishing touches and landscaping, So exciting! This may be one of my last house posts before closing on Oct 11th (not sure yet!) so I just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone for the well wishes and kind words.  This has been such an exciting journey for us, and I have loved having all of you along for the ride :)   Of course I will be back with new house posts as soon as we get moved in! Whose looking forward to some DIY & home decor posts?!?! Yay!  For now, here are current photos of our new house's progress.. Dining Room Foyer Kitchen Sink Master Shower The most important part of any house, the toilet haha Master Shower  Master Shower David's Vanity My Vanity...

hi Beauties . Lots of exciting updates at the future Bentley household this month!  If you didn't see my last House post with updates and photos,  Click Here. Now that the drywall is in, all of the fun goodies have started to arrive! It's so exciting to see all of our design center choices now in OUR home! :) As you might have already guessed, I was personally most excited about the installation of our kitchen cabinetry. I am so pleased with how it turned out, the toffee coloring is so rich and warm, and all of the molding details are gorgeous (my crappy cellphone pics do not do it justice!) They also put our siding and shutters up in ONE day.. What a surprise that was last week! Hope you enjoy these new pictures of our home.... Siding going up!  Knobs and Marble top added to my Vanity Knobs and Marble added to David's Vanity Guest Bathroom Vanity   Stairs are in!  Stairs ( so glad I went w...

Hi Beauties! Just a few progress photos of our home construction. Last week they waterproofed the foundation walls, did the plumbing in the basement and backfilled. I was especially excited to see everything after the backfill, because we can finally get a sense of how big our house will be, and what size yard (or lack thereof haha) that we are looking at ;)  Early this week, our foundation was poured! Which means framing should begin sometime in the next week, so excited! The builders are running about a week behind at this time, so please cross your fingers for us that the weather stays nice and dry so that they are able to catch up and we can avoid crazy loan lock fees! 7/22 Waterproofing  7/26 Backfill, Support Beams & Rebar 7/26 Backfill, Support Beams & Rebar 7/29 Foundation Poured 7/29 Foundation Poured Also, I FINALLY uploaded a new video on my Youtube channel this week! It's a current "Hits and Mis...

Hi Beauties. Hope all of you are having a fab week! I wanted to thank you all so much for the love on my last "Building Our First Home" post!  read it here:   Color Selection Appointment & Design Center Today I will be sharing our exterior color choices! :) Let me start off by saying, choosing a siding color was by far the hardest choice we made in this entire process. I feel that the exterior of a home is a true reflection of it's owners; and there were 3 things that we were certain we wanted for our new home, - a front porch - colonial or southern feel/ siding color -red front door BUT, herein lies the problem when working with a development builder.. typically, (at least this was the case for us) you must adhere to the builder's rules and the HOA. For us this meant, our siding and brick color had to be different from all of our bordering neighbors. It also meant, no red front door. Lucky for us, we are the first home to be built on one side of the ...

HI   Beauties . As many of you know, I have been a bit MIA for the past few months in the youtube/blogging world. With my husband's detachment from the Navy, starting a new job, and moving back to Southern Maryland; things have been hectic! But we've also been very busy with something exciting! ...  My Husband and I are Building Our First Home !!! In our 6 years as a Navy family (hubby served for 8) we have had to move quite a bit. While we have both loved exploring new cities, I'm not sure that we ever grew completely accustomed to the many "joys" of renting *note sarcasm* ;]  Now that my husband is a civilian, we are finally ready to put down roots in our hometown and start our lives in our first true "home" together. Of course I will be taking all of my favorite beauties along with us on our journey. I will be sharing our new home decisions, trials, tribulations and exciting updates with all of you!  So far our experience has been a ...