The stone arrives, fence building and big beams
Wow. A lot has happened in the last week...
First off, the beams were put up in the great room. Check out the time lapse video courtesy of www.watching-grass-grow.com. Pete and Todd are true craftsman. Todd may have enjoyed this even more than building the train shelf around Rodden's room (and he thought that was pretty cool).
Brian, the best painter ever (call him 303-249-1080) is cranking away despite having most of his crew out with the stomach flu last week. He's been at it two weeks and the upstairs is done and the basement, so now another 1 1/2 or 2 and he should be done.
I got a little frustrated with Rolando, the builder's stone guy's bid (long story, but it started labor and materials, but then I needed to get the materials, but his labor price plus actual materials was higher). I got a referral to Rigo Marquez from Robinson Brick Co. and Rigo is awesome. Price was much better, and he showed up the next day. He calls me to tell me when he'll be there, and even called Kaly and I to come see it today to make sure we were happy with the work. What great service.
Picking the stone was tough. Kyle, our architect liked "Trailhead" a random shaped stone because it looked like more rural. Doug thought it was ugly. In the end we chose Kiamachi which looks more European which is what we wanted anyway.
I also found an awesome fence guy on Craigslist. Adam Gallegos. How often does your subcontractor text message you? He's awesome about communicating with me which is key with any subcontractor. The guys great and a great deal since there is no middle man. $2.50 a ft for labor for the fence. With materials that only like $10/ft for a 6 ft high split rail fence with welded wire.
I looked at gates online at gatecrafters . com , but found a local place in Brighton, (Custom Iron Works) that had just as good of price and would install it.
Kitchen cabinets and bath vanities were installed this week. We love them! A few more issues with paint matching, etc. but Steve has been great about making them right and I have a much greater appreciation for the work involved in building and painting such cabinets. I think Terry, the main carpenter that built them is ready to be done with the job. We think that he thinks were crazy for wanting painted cabinets with inset doors (most new houses have stained cabinets with European hinges-- the kind that are hidden and adjustable where the door covers the opening-- ours are old fashioned inset doors where the door has to be precisely fit to the opening and the hinges are exposed on the side). The funny thing is that only the most expensive custom cabinet companies do this kind of work...If you check out http://www.peacockcabinetry.com/ the Scullery Kitchen you'll see one of the most exclusive cabinet company's work... We saw this add in a magazine and I called them. They said there cabinets start at about $100,000. So, I'm not quiet sure that Terry fully appreciates the style of his work on our house, but we do!
The laundry room and niche cabinets will be delivered next week.
Need to template for the counters for the vanities.
Stone started Wed and should be done early next week.
Still waiting for the front steps to be poured, should be Monday.
First off, the beams were put up in the great room. Check out the time lapse video courtesy of www.watching-grass-grow.com. Pete and Todd are true craftsman. Todd may have enjoyed this even more than building the train shelf around Rodden's room (and he thought that was pretty cool).
Brian, the best painter ever (call him 303-249-1080) is cranking away despite having most of his crew out with the stomach flu last week. He's been at it two weeks and the upstairs is done and the basement, so now another 1 1/2 or 2 and he should be done.
I got a little frustrated with Rolando, the builder's stone guy's bid (long story, but it started labor and materials, but then I needed to get the materials, but his labor price plus actual materials was higher). I got a referral to Rigo Marquez from Robinson Brick Co. and Rigo is awesome. Price was much better, and he showed up the next day. He calls me to tell me when he'll be there, and even called Kaly and I to come see it today to make sure we were happy with the work. What great service.
Picking the stone was tough. Kyle, our architect liked "Trailhead" a random shaped stone because it looked like more rural. Doug thought it was ugly. In the end we chose Kiamachi which looks more European which is what we wanted anyway.
I also found an awesome fence guy on Craigslist. Adam Gallegos. How often does your subcontractor text message you? He's awesome about communicating with me which is key with any subcontractor. The guys great and a great deal since there is no middle man. $2.50 a ft for labor for the fence. With materials that only like $10/ft for a 6 ft high split rail fence with welded wire.
I looked at gates online at gatecrafters . com , but found a local place in Brighton, (Custom Iron Works) that had just as good of price and would install it.
Kitchen cabinets and bath vanities were installed this week. We love them! A few more issues with paint matching, etc. but Steve has been great about making them right and I have a much greater appreciation for the work involved in building and painting such cabinets. I think Terry, the main carpenter that built them is ready to be done with the job. We think that he thinks were crazy for wanting painted cabinets with inset doors (most new houses have stained cabinets with European hinges-- the kind that are hidden and adjustable where the door covers the opening-- ours are old fashioned inset doors where the door has to be precisely fit to the opening and the hinges are exposed on the side). The funny thing is that only the most expensive custom cabinet companies do this kind of work...If you check out http://www.peacockcabinetry.com/ the Scullery Kitchen you'll see one of the most exclusive cabinet company's work... We saw this add in a magazine and I called them. They said there cabinets start at about $100,000. So, I'm not quiet sure that Terry fully appreciates the style of his work on our house, but we do!
The laundry room and niche cabinets will be delivered next week.
Need to template for the counters for the vanities.
Stone started Wed and should be done early next week.
Still waiting for the front steps to be poured, should be Monday.