Drywall pains
Kaly and I spent 5 hours yesterday marking all the drywall defects. We were a little frustrated because there were so many obvious defects that if the drywallers had just done a careful walkthru we wouldn't have had to spend so much time. So we probably were pickier than we would have otherwise been. Drywall mistakes is a big pet peeve of Kaly's and we let everyone know upfront that this was an area of particular concern.
One costly mistake is the door to the garage. Every other door is 8' on the main floor, but it is only 6'8" and looks awful short. I think we're going to replace it ($900- ouch).
Note to self (for the next home):
1. Check all door heights.
2. Check all door framing. We have a 4" trim on the doors, plus a header that sticks out another 2". Many of the doors are 4" from a wall, not 6", so the header gets cut off. The architect, framers, etc. need to take into account the full width of the door with trim and header.
We've decided on marble floors in the master bath and basement bath, an old fashioned looking white octagon for the two upstairs baths (the two main floor baths are wood) and white subway tiles for the showers and tubs. We didn't care much for Capco tile-- it seems like all they want to push is what they are putting in all the other new homes and we want a very traditionally styled home.
After much agonizing Kaly has switched back from Marble to Soapstone countertops. She loves the looks of marble and could even handle it staining easily, but she is very clean and the thought of not being able to use bleach based cleaning products was too much. We found a great slab (four actually) of Soapstone at Dorado Soapstone and Moros Fabrication will finish them. Both companies have been great so far. Soapstone does scratch, but can be easily sanded by the homeowner and it is impossible to stain or burn.
We love the custom front door. Against the advice of other we designed an 8'0, 42" white full arch top door with six pains of glass, plank style our of knotty alder and we love it. Kevin of Appalachian Woodworks in Colorado Springs made it along with a matching outside closet door.
Pete and Todd, the trim carpenters are doing great. We love their work and its nice to have someone on the job everyday working.
The stucco guys keep getting frozen out and the stone isn't even started. Hopefully it will warm up sometime soon.
The cabinets are delayed another 10 days, but I really appreciate Stever of Hellers Interiors stepping up to make them right. He painted them without confirming the exact shade of white, and after 24 hours of stress on our part, he insisted that we were right and he would make them right, and that he also, didn't think the finish was perfect and they would all be resanded and repainted.
One costly mistake is the door to the garage. Every other door is 8' on the main floor, but it is only 6'8" and looks awful short. I think we're going to replace it ($900- ouch).
Note to self (for the next home):
1. Check all door heights.
2. Check all door framing. We have a 4" trim on the doors, plus a header that sticks out another 2". Many of the doors are 4" from a wall, not 6", so the header gets cut off. The architect, framers, etc. need to take into account the full width of the door with trim and header.
We've decided on marble floors in the master bath and basement bath, an old fashioned looking white octagon for the two upstairs baths (the two main floor baths are wood) and white subway tiles for the showers and tubs. We didn't care much for Capco tile-- it seems like all they want to push is what they are putting in all the other new homes and we want a very traditionally styled home.
After much agonizing Kaly has switched back from Marble to Soapstone countertops. She loves the looks of marble and could even handle it staining easily, but she is very clean and the thought of not being able to use bleach based cleaning products was too much. We found a great slab (four actually) of Soapstone at Dorado Soapstone and Moros Fabrication will finish them. Both companies have been great so far. Soapstone does scratch, but can be easily sanded by the homeowner and it is impossible to stain or burn.
We love the custom front door. Against the advice of other we designed an 8'0, 42" white full arch top door with six pains of glass, plank style our of knotty alder and we love it. Kevin of Appalachian Woodworks in Colorado Springs made it along with a matching outside closet door.
Pete and Todd, the trim carpenters are doing great. We love their work and its nice to have someone on the job everyday working.
The stucco guys keep getting frozen out and the stone isn't even started. Hopefully it will warm up sometime soon.
The cabinets are delayed another 10 days, but I really appreciate Stever of Hellers Interiors stepping up to make them right. He painted them without confirming the exact shade of white, and after 24 hours of stress on our part, he insisted that we were right and he would make them right, and that he also, didn't think the finish was perfect and they would all be resanded and repainted.
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