House Progress

Here is the original post that was supposed to be posted on January 8. I thought I had lost it, but it was saved in Blogger, I just didn't know how to get to it. Sometimes my computer skills are not so great.

Here is a house update. Things were pretty quiet over the holidays, but work has picked up again now. The construction guys have started working on the inside this week. Here is a view of my pantry. I love the shelving. This will all get painted later. This is a view of the molding being put in the dining room.

Here is a view of the molding and baseboards in the master bedroom.

And last, but not least we have bases for our columns. They are suposed to be installed later today, so hopefully I will have another photo of the front porch later.

We had a miscommunication between the contractor, his construction supervisor and ourselves. Or maybe I should say it was a lack of communication. The plans initially showed round columns on top of the bases, but Wally and I had talked to the contractor about doing square craftsman style columns. The contractor had drawn pictures and said sure, it could be done. Well, the change did not get communicated to the supervisor by the contractor or by us (we could have done it at our red line meeting), so he ordered round columns as per plan. When we were out looking at the house on Sunday we saw round columns being stored in the dining room, so Monday morning I emailed everyone to find out what was going on. That's when we learned of the mix up. To make a long story short, we are going to have round columns after all. It's just too much trouble to send the columns back, plus we would have to get the change approved by the architectural control committee which could take weeks. When all is done, I think it will look fine. I just need to keep telling myself I need to be flexible.