Before we did that, we talked a little bit with Sherri about the plumbing, much of which has to be decided on by Monday. We looked at the island they have in the offices and talked about what our kitchen faucet will look like with the raised breakfast bar we will have in the kitchen.
We started out talking about our front door. This has been a little bit of a struggle because our plan shows partial sidelights on the side of the door (glass in the top portion, and a solid material in the bottom portion). All of those that were close were significant upgrades, so we finally concluded the issue of the front door by picking one with full glass sidelights. We'll have to find some sort of blinds or shades after we get moved in. We do like the door, however, which we will have painted shortly before we move in in a color to be determined.
We signed off on all of the stone, siding, trim, garage doors and shingles. Overall, we are very happy with what we've come up with. We've posted the stone, which is a combination of greys, black and some white. We like the look a lot, and it is something that is unique in the neighborhood. Most of the rest of the house (siding, etc) will be different shades of grey, with white trim and probably white garage doors. We are really excited about how the colors seem to have come together.
We also saw our stone address plate which will be next to the double stall garage door. It turned out very cool. You can see a picture of it here.
After we left TJB, Sara and I had a meeting with Justin out at the house. He had called the other day and said he had a few things to go through with us. We were thrilled when we arrive to see that all of the windows had been delivered and that they were busy putting them all in. My parents met us out there, and they got a chance to chat with the guys framing the house while we talked with Justin.
Justin and the lead framer Greg talked through some options with the fireplace and book shelves. I think we know how we're going to have the fireplace designed based on our conversation.
We then went upstairs with them to look at a few issues with the master bath. We have a pretty big walk in shower, and Justin had some questions about the way we wanted to place the shower heads. We'll have a rain shower on the ceiling of the shower, and Justin said they needed to build a soffit to insulate it. The soffit will drop the rain shower down about six inches or so. He also pointed out that the way we have the door designed made it likely that we'll end up with a pretty wet floor outside of the shower. He drew on the floor a suggested wall change to catch the spray of the water off of the rain shower. It is those little things that we'd have never thought of that make us thankful we have such a good builder. We gave Justin the go ahead to frame up a new segment of wall (at no additional cost which is nice) which we think will make the shower hold heat better, and will certainly catch the spray of the water from the ceiling.
We also talked with Justin and Greg about cutting off part of the surface area around the tub on both walls to give us a bigger vanity on one side and a bigger linen closet on the other. There will still be plenty of room for a wine glass or candle on the edge of the tub.
We then talked with Justin about the doors in what will eventually be kid(s) rooms. For some reason we had a pocket door in one of the other bedrooms' walk-ins. Depending on if Justin can return the casing, I think we're going to remove it and put in a normal door. We debated putting in two additional doors entering the sink/vanity area of each of the bathrooms, but I think we are going to leave them as is. The two bedrooms on the other side of the upstairs are connected with a "modified Jack and Jill," which means you leave either bedroom into a room with a sink and vanity, and those two rooms have a shared shower and toilet. It's a good set up.
Lastly, we talked with Justin about some options for the second bonus room over the single stall garage which is currently set to be unfinished. Justin is getting us some prices on partially finishing it with the idea that we'll finish it up when we get the basement finished. His preliminary report to us makes it likely that we'll do it.
Justin and Greg said they'd likely finish the windows by the end of the day, and the framing process would almost certainly be done early next week.
We were thrown for a bit of a loop as we were leaving with regard to the front porch. With all of the many decisions, we think we thought (literally, it is that complicated) that we had a poured cement set of steps with a composite porch. They have us with a composite front porch, steps and all. I'm still not sure what we're going to do about this. It will require some research.
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