Tile and Trim

I hired Steve Yates yesterday to do the tile. He seems very experienced (18 yrs) and good references, and a very good price. We're still making some changes to the trim pieces at the showers-- strangely the bullnose cost the same as decorative trim pieces (I wish I would have known before ordering all the bullnose).

We decided to add the wainscot all the way up the stairs ($1000 labor + materials) and beadboard in the main floor 3/4 bath ($400). Here's Pete working on the wainscot at the stairs.

Curious if the drywallers will show up today-- conflicting opinions on how long it will take to get it right (Tim, the owner says 5 minutes a room, Doug thought two guys 15 hours each, Diego- the one actually doing the work just looked bewildered). We also need to uncover the niches at the tubs that the drywallers covered up, but know one knows for sure where they are located.

Stucco should be about done since we've had good weather, but we still need the front steps and all the stone work.

Drywall

I sent Kaly over this morning to meet with Doug (Builder) and Tim & Diego (Drywallers) to go over the sea of blue tape. Kaly has an eye for drywall defects and I was afraid to OK anything. Kaly seemed to have everyone smiling (see photo). She should probably be there more often directing things. (Although she did ask to have wainscot added up the stairs while she was there, so that might get expensive).

We found a great deal on the old fashioned Octaon w/ dot tile we were looking for at Home Depot-- it was a 1/3 the cost of the same thing at Prosource. We got the ceramic tile at Floor & Decor, the marble (Carrara marble for the master bath) and subway tiles at Prosource. Interestingly we found that certain Dal-Tile decorative trim pieces weren't much more than the bullnose pieces. In the future I might make more use of the trim versus the bullnose.

Pete and Todd have put up the Bead board in the playroom and laid out the spacing for the panels in the dining room. A few outlets and vacuum outlet need to be moved slightly. This would be good to coordinate on with the electricians when they are putting them in.