Its Appliance Time!

Just another note for today - we have finalized our appliance list. (My wife and I had a babysitter last Monday and went shopping for the kitchen applicance - and then out to dinner! - and came up with a rough list of the general pieces we wanted and price range). In the past few days, she has been researching and nailing down the final list. Today, I put together a document with the exact model numbers we want - we will use this for two things:

1. to give to our "kitchen designer" (who works for the builder - we do not pay for this guy) - he will need the exact model numbers to start drafting the exact kitchen layout, and to prepare for the plumber who will need the exact locations for the connections, etc.
2. we will use this list to fax to a few kitchen appliance stores to request a package quote.

A Foot Here, a Foot There!

Well, since we discovered the measurement mistake, we have looked to find a way to have the large kids bathroom - with 6 ft tub and 6ft vanity, and a separator door. We could have moved the vanity across from the tub, but would have had to lose the separator door. We asked our architect (since, as we understand, this was her error), to come up with a solution, and she provided a hand-sketch of a way to move the bathroom wall out, and take some space from our very large walk-in closet in the master bedroom. This seemed like a perfect solution.

But when I met with the GC, he saw that this would take alot of re-work and re-framing - this part of the house has been completely framed out, and his framing team is on to the next project. (Lesson learned - stay on top of this stuff. If I had caught this earlier, the correction coudl have been much easier). In the end, the GC agreed to make the change (and said he might send the architect his bill!)

OK, as of last Friday, we walked through the house to see the change. He did in fact do what was in the sketch - which, it turns out, included taking almost 4ft from our walk-in closet!!! Our very large walk-in closet is now an OK sized walk-in closet. (But, our bathroom is - from what we can tell - exactly what we want). So, at this point, I guess it is a reasonable compromise, and I must say I am pretty pleased with the GC for doing this - he could have pushed back on this. And, he agreed that this is no cost to us - either he or the architect will eat the cost. So, I guess I am happy? Would have been happier if we had just gotten what we thought we were getting, without feeling that everyone did us a favor.