Monday, December 11, 2006

Our remodeling is coming along and on schedule. Han and Pon and their workers have now done the texuring on the walls, put in the crown molding, baseboards and casings. The new slides, doors and recessed lights are in. Soon they will start painting. Then the flooring will go in. The fabricator is due to come in to measure for the granite and the plumber will be putting in the bathtub.

Our contractor, Han and his partner Pon are amazing. They are hard workers and have done everything we ask. Been very helpful in helping us figure out what the next step is and finishing what they have started in a timely manner. I would highly recommend them.

Speaking of doors, Home Depot totally blew our order of doors. We had their people come out to measure our doors, (they charged us $50) and found out they all had to be custom made. We told our contractor, Han, he said that doesn't sound right and he remeasured, his measurements came out standard, not custom. We changed the order to standard. But someone at Home depot didn't put it in so it took 5 weeks to get our doors and they came in the original order which was the custom order. So Han's guys had to work much harder making all the door jams fit. It's really frustrating. Also the mirrored sliding closet doors came too short. And the other two reg sliding closet doors didn't even come in. I would not recommend Home Depot for your doors. Go to a small company, it cost more, but worth it.

The landscaping is almost finished and our landscaper, Robert, was very reasonable and nice to work with. Right now they are finishing up and putting the patio in which is a earth-tone slate. I really wanted to go with flagstone, but budget is tightening up. The slate will still look good.

The cabinets look beautiful, we need to get the hardware. I've been checking the internet for deals, but haven't found anything. We may have to order through Home Depot, God help us, they are the only ones that carry this particular hardware that I like byThomasville.

After taking out all the bushes and trees, it's really made a difference with the house. You can actually see the house now. The landscaping looks great, we're really happy.