Week 18: Oct 26 - 30

Trim work is winding up and the painters are moving in. We chose to go with a simple trim pattern. Simple to look at and EASY TO CLEAN
The door jam highlights the style of trim placed throughout the house. The white spots are the areas where the painters have come in and filled nail holes. They will come back later and sand leaving the areas smooth and flat.
An example of the closet organizers in the home. The closets follow the basic theme of having a shelving system with an area on one side to hang long clothing items and an area on the opposite side of the shelving split in two to hang shorter clothing items.


The forms have been placed to complete the last stage of the cement work. Garage steps. I just noticed that the forms are not centered on the door! It is stuff like this that drives me crazy with building. Aren't steps suppose to center on the door? If not, if there is some benefit to being shifted to the side of the door opening then I need to know. Otherwise, I grow an ulcer worrying about details like this. One more call to the builder.
Front steps. Exit outside the garage utility door. We initially planned to not pour this as a cost saving measure. As it turns out you have to order a certain amount of cement or get charged extra for making a small order. You have to order 4 yards of cement to avoid the up charge. So we ordered 4 yards and were able to include this pad with everything else.
Garage entry door as well as a place for the heat pump.

Behind the scenes lighting and carpet have been chosen and re-chosen. Floor coverings were finalized and ordered. I am in a little bit of a moral wrestling match regarding the lighting. When we were first planning out lighting placement we went to a local lighting store and sought help. They offered help for free with the condition that we get lights from them. They helped us with some lay-out decisions and we went back and chose out lighting from their store. Then an independent lighting guy drove up to the house one day and asked if he could just give us a bid. As it turns out the independent guy can get us the exact same lighting for about 15% less. That ends up being $400 - $500 dollars difference. As for service, the lighting store offers a show room and good help with initial lay-out but makes no contact with us unless we initiate the contact. The independent guy stays in contact with us on a regular basis and has walked through our home and met with us on numerous occasions to talk about options. What to do? Both have provided us with service. I don't believe the lighting store has provided me with $500 better service, but I feel committed to by lights from them. Right now I am leaning toward buying lights from both places and confronting the lighting store about adjusting their prices to be more in line with the independent lighting guy. Which should be interesting because I hate confrontation in any form, except with Viki, who has become my sounding board for expressing frustration regarding the building process.