The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Since we are going out of town Saturday morning, we have scheduled our walk through with our contractor Friday evening.  After we leave, we will not be back until the following Friday, and we have movers scheduled to move us in that afternoon.  With our move in date in T-minus 8 days, I would think that we are past the point of things going wrong, but sadly I am wrong. 

The good right now is that most of our lighting is in, and has been installed.  We purchased all of our lighting from Ferguson, and thanks to the design help from Wendy Wittenberg, my lighting looks amazing in the house.  Also all of our hardwood floors have been sanded, and the original floors look like new.  There were workers over at the house last night staining the floors and because of this I cannot go by until our walk through on Friday, but I cannot wait to see them.  Finally the drive way was paved yesterday and it is such an improvement over the cracked, uneven driveway that we had.

The bad for the week consist of several small items that has stressed me out and made me lose sleep, again.  They installed our oven yesterday and I was excited to see how nice it looked in the cabinets.  I went to open it up and found out that the oven door will only open part way because it hits the trim on the door frame.  We have had several issues with our cabinet company, and this just pushed me over the edge.  When we signed off on the final design, I did not think to check to ensure that the cabinet was far enough over so we could open the oven door.  If the oven was a half of an inch further to the left, this would not be an issue.  Unfortunately the granite is installed and the tiling on the back splash has started, so we cannot easily take out the cabinets to change this.  My contractor has come up with a solution to trim down the molding on the doorway so that it is not so thick.  Hopefully this will resolve this issue. 

They also had to tear out the hardwood in the lading in the addition because once they installed the hardwood on the stairs, it was a 1/4 inch taller than the hardwood on the lading.  They are going to replace it with new hardwood but I hate that they had to tear it out when they should have been staining it with the rest of the floors .

The ugly...see below...

We did not ask for them to pave this piece of our yard, and although I understand that they were trying to make a place for the post office to drive on, it looks really bad.  We have asked the contractor to take this part out.