The ‘bling’ in my dressing room

Things are happening at a rapid fire pace!  Light fixtures are almost all in, tiling is done and the kitchen cabinets and appliances have arrived.  Holy Cow the dream house is nearly complete!  It has taken a few more months than expected due to some unforeseen setbacks, but we are set to move in the next week and a half.  Can’t wait to see my ‘treasures’ in the new/old house!

New sconces, paint and window for the upstairs landing

Kitchen pendants

Shower with the all important bench

Great room stained. My handy work on the fireplace

Kitchen sink area

Great room with new fixture and two new windows to let in more light

Love the ORBS!!!!

While at lunch with a friend, he asked if we had encountered any major ‘hiccups’ during the remodel.  Nothing major or unplanned, like the electrical was shot, the plumbing all needed to be replaced or that the roof was caving in.  We had already budgeted for reworking the electrical and updating of the plumbing.  The roof and gutters were new, as were most of the HVAC units.  Yippee!

However, we did have what I like to call a few ‘snafus’.  One being the breakage of an original light fixture.  But I am so over that now.  The overspray of paint on wallpaper we wanted to keep.  Oops.  Painting the entryway the WRONG color, while aggravating it can easily be fixed.  But the first major ‘muck up’ was the windows.

We had a quote from a well-known provider here in Topeka and had picked out the windows, were ready to roll.  Then they tell us their prices have gone up so our bid would be nearly 20% more than originally estimated.  We said ‘thanks, but no thanks’ and will not be using them for ANY products on our remodel and will NOT be using them again in the future.  Our wonderful contractor, Rick, came to the rescue and found another lumber company for the exact same windows at 1/3 of the price.  So instead of only doing half of the windows this year, we were able to replace all 20+ windows!

These wonder windows were ordered and we waited.  And waited.  Waited because no trim work, paint, floor work could be done until the windows arrived and were installed.  Finally the delivery date arrived!  My hubs proceeds to tell me how ‘lucky we have been not to have encountered any major problems’.  That gets my antennae up.  My first thought is that the windows didn’t come in.  No, the windows were indeed delivered . . . they were just the WRONG COLOR!  Yes, instead of the white metal clad window with the wood interior, we had TAN exterior windows.  Major SNAFU.

After much back and forth with the lumber company, and losing our window installer while determining what would be done with the wrong windows, we were told we could keep the old windows and they would order new ones.  What on earth are we going to do with a garage full of custom windows?  And being on a timeline with our subcontractors, we were getting way behind schedule.  After much back and forth, we were offered the windows at half off if we would paint the exterior.  SOLD!

Onward and upward with the project . . . .

Definitely NOT white!