We got a couple of packages of plumbing supplies the other day and I just got around to opening them this morning. You can see the interest that Belle is showing. This boxes constitute one of the shower heads for the Master Shower, several toilet seats (you will recall that we made the toilet decision early on), some hooks and towel holders. I/we still have to inventory this, and we are anticipating another shipment or two, but its kind of cool to start getting this stuff shipped to us.
I went out to the house for a while this afternoon to see what they did with the sheetrock delivery that was made yesterday. I have the code now for the lock box, so I was able to go look around.
This is a picture of the ceiling looking from the kitchen into the dining room in the back of the house. I took this picture because you can see the insulation that was blown up into the corners and other recesses of the house (as opposed to that which is rolled between the studs.
There are now stacks of sheetrock in the rooms around the house. They moved a lot of material into the house yesterday.
I'm not exactly sure what this stuff is, but there is a lot of it.
I hadn't noticed this when I was out at the house last night, but they've installed both garage doors, the garage door openers, and the wall units outside the garage entrance to the house to open both of them. I think the plan is probably to leave them white, but that will be a decision we finalize in a month or so. This was one of those areas where the upgrades were actually really unattractive to us. Many of the new, "trendy" garage doors look like weird barn doors with crazy hardware that is purely decorative. We liked having some windows in the doors, but I'm really glad we kept these simple.
The immediate next door neighbor (Eric) who I spoke with last night, and the neighbor two doors down from him around the cul-de-sac (Tom) were out playing in the snow with their sons. I spoke with them for a little while. The lot next to Tom is the last lot on the cul-de-sac and has been sold and now surveyed. You can kind of see the steaks out in the yard (one of them, presumably mistakenly, was almost right up next to Tom's driveway). This is the home that is being built for a couple moving (or moving back) from New York. Word on the street is that they'll be moving in sometime in July. So we won't be the new kids on the block for too long in our little corner of Aspen Bay.
I spent time the rest of the afternoon at Home Depot, Menards and Lowes looking at sinks and hardware. We are likely getting this new granite composite sink for the kitchen that is pretty cool. But we chose a granite for the counter tops that has a lot of brown in it. So the grey eGranite sink we were looking at won't work with this counter top. There is a particular vendor that the plumber is requiring us to get the sink through, but I looked at the retail stores anyway to see what the sinks in shades of brown look like up against our granite sample. It actually looks pretty good, and I think it is going to work just fine.
The cabinet hardware we've been looking at at Home Depot is on sale right now fur most of March. That was one of the other reasons I went to the stores today, to see if they have any sales that aren't listed in the paper. Sure enough. Assuming we can't find out that they are having a similar or better sale in a month or so, we'll probably try to estimate how many knobs and handles we need and purchase them sometime before the sale ends.
All in all a pretty good day today running around.
Sounds like you have been busy and everything is coming along well.
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