Tile, Appliances, Faucets and Lights

We met at the house this afternoon with the hopes of rectifying Village's confusion over where they were supposed to install the glass mosaic around the tub in the master bath. Apparently they had all of the vendors in the house at once today because a lot has changed since we were there late Monday night.

First, however, with regard to the mosaic. The installer and Justin laid out an option which wouldn't require them to remove (much) of what they had already done. They laid the sheets of glass end to end to see if what they had left in the order would fit all the way around the tub, and it does. So we'll have a row around the tub right off of the platform, and the segments towards the top of the tile will be there too.

And because they had enough of the excess from the original order, they won't have to order more to fix the. . . . to fix the. . . Wait a minute. They installed a bunch of glass where we didn't expect it to be, and there is still plenty to wrap the entire tub (yes, the shower is all finished)?

The reality, of course, is that they have enough glass mosaic left because they ordered enough to do what we said the plan indicated to begin with. It actually looks pretty cool that there is a segmented second row at the top.

So we'll take it. (while quietly enjoying the fact that we were correct)

Some of the kitchen appliances have arrived and have been installed. Here is the second oven and the microwave.



The main oven and stove are here. Above this in the hearth is where we will add a back splash and some other glass mosaic of some sort. That's TBD once we can get some samples over to the house.



The plumber was busy today too. This is the island in the kitchen with the kitchen sink faucet. The little button to the left of the faucet is actually an air switch that controls the garbage disposal. They had intended to place a normal switch inside of the cabinet. We didn't like that idea, and it also didn't make any sense to have it on the edge at munchkin eye level (thinking way ahead). This seems like a great option. I'm looking forward to seeing how it works. The plumber also installed the Insinkerator garbage disposal that Dick and Carol brought to us over Easter.


The plumber also installed a few of the toilets we selected way at the beginning of this process. This is the powder bath with the glass mosaic on top of the sink.



The electrician installed the ceiling fan in the great room. Apparently there was some confusion as to when the light bulbs were supposed to be at the house. Since they weren't there today, only the light fixtures that came with them were put up.



This is the hallway on the way up the stairs. I think we have 10 of these same flush lights in different parts of the house.


Here is the ceiling fan in one of the guest bedrooms. Both are installed.


They put up the vanity lights in the guest baths as well.



And put the hand held shower head up in the Jack and Jill.


Looks like they'll put the washer and dryer in tomorrow.


Here is our ceiling fan. You can see that the tub is in our bedroom ready to install.




Per our earlier conversation, the glass mosaic is all installed in the shower (again, with plenty to spare).


And the faucets are installed in our master bath.


This thermostat controls a mesh in floor heat in our master bathroom.


And lastly, these are the ceiling lights we are using in the closets



Justin had the concrete guy out to meet with us and talk about the driveway which will be poured next Tuesday when Sara is in California. We talked through how we want it positioned, where we want it to turn and how much, and where we want to enter from the street. We also looked at where the back patio will be. Our intention at some point is to have a nice deck, but for now we'll have a patio off the walk out (that will eventually have a hot tub). We had him make it a little bigger than what we have in the spec book. They'll pour that next week as well.

This is a picture of Justin, Tom's son and one of the VP's for TJB who oversees the actual build. He saw a box in the dumpster that he wanted so he jumped up there to get it. Well, he actually saw a box that we wanted so he went up to. . . Ok, that's not true either. We saw a box we wanted and he offered to grab it.

Fine, we wanted one of the boxes in the dumpster and asked Justin to jump into the dumpster and get it for us.

That's really how good he's been to work with.



This evening we purchased all of the light bulbs which I'll drop off in the morning. Most of the lights and a lot of the plumbing should be done by tomorrow or Thursday.

Just a few weeks left.