Post Hawaii walk through--9 days of work equals these photos

Tile

Mud room floor

Where the cubbies will go

basement shower grouted

Upstairs hall bathroom floor (no cabinets yet)

Bath tile -- trim to be delivered

 

 

 

 

 

Cabinet delivered and installed in basement bathroom

 

 

Driveway

stairs added FINALLY

Frontal view of home

Drain in driveway

Retaining wall

PICTURES OF the rest of the house

storage section in garage (garage was painted)

kitchenette in basement

Greg's music studio

floors finished

kitchen install

butler's pantry

more kitchen

living room

very yellow attic

master

master closet

back stairs--where is the railing!

office

office--no more chair YEAEY YEAEY YEAEY

Guest room--floors finished

Before Hawaii--initial paint colors on the walls

Basement shower tile before grout

At the meeting with Carib and Keith, we tried to visualize what the kitchen divide would look like with 4 pillars v. 2 panels

Oops, upstairs hall bathroom has mismatched color tile and trim

Boys bathroom before grout

Daniel's bedroom with the window that looks into the house...

The chair the chair, the chair that won't get removed... the walls are a dark "gun metal" grey.

shower floor of the basement shower.

The guest room is a green color

Seth's room

Shaker beige bedroom

intriguing linen closet

eat in ceiling is blue and the walls are grey.

Hanging wires show where the divide will go--due to those wires, we decided to go with panels not pillars

day before departure the floor stain was selected--we went with the darkest (most left)

Looking to see if one can see a difference between the old and the new floors

Trim, Flooring, Gas

It appears the gas issue may have been resolved. we will know on Friday. apparently, our contractor had to set up our gas meter in his name. not ours. fascinating.

More stuff happening at the house.
Window trim and flooring is going in:

new floors in Daniel/Seth's new room

trim on dining room window

trim on living room window to right of fireplace

Washington Gas is a pain in the *ss

Due to pure bureaucracy at Washington Gas, we are delayed in putting in flooring which delays our cabinets which delays delays delays.

Greg has called numerous times to ask one man SID to input info. He was less than enthusiastic. Then, Mr. Lee, admittedly dropped the ball on some other small task which was a large step in getting them to turn on the gas.

My favorite so far is that Greg called only to have the gas people say we'll call you back to set up a time for your appointment. When Greg stated he had already called 3x and requested to speak to a supervisor, the representative said "sorry, all Supervisors are unavailable." Really? are you even allowed to say that? and then when someone DID call him back, Greg was unable to determine if he was a supervisor.  Only possible with someone from Wash Gas. 

Tomorrow, (this saga is on day 10 started day before Tgiving) well earlier but I can't remember all the details, our contractor has set up a CONFERENCE call with Mr. Lee, his boss? maybe? and himself.  We'll see how this goes.

The paint debacle--crisis averted (and other pix)

Greg took this picture on the Sunday we returned from Boston. Notice the color of the siding is way different than the color of the brick... was this on purpose? was this an error?

We now have scalloped shingles on the back part of our house. not sure if i like it....yet. its slowly growing on me. i think if it wasn't there, i'd say why does it look so plain, can't they jazz it up a bit...

After calling the architect, discussing with contractor the possible error in the paint color, the actual PAINTER came to me and told me that the light color is primer, the final work product will look like the bottom half of this picture where the siding and the brick side by side look very similar in color. PHEW we didn't have to get the whole house repainted.

 

They have now finished the masonry at the pillars and at the wall. now, WHEN ARE THE STAIRS GOING IN??? actually I talked to Matt today. He said the concrete for driveway would go in tomorrow, weather permitting and then the steps.

The painted brick now covers the window that we closed up where the old bathroom used to be.

close up of the pillars--and our messy construction site

I've kindly asked for the old paint to be tossed. again. this is now the 5th time. i asked in person this time. we'll see. (and the chair and the destroyed light fixtures.)

the fan is here because the gas company is inept.

retaining wall to the side between us and the Carros

retaining wall back corner where figs were

retaining wall back wall