Looks like I forgot to post yesterday so let's see if I can remember what happened LOL. So much is going on it's hard to keep track.
Our guy came in yesterday having visited the tile store and not finding anything either. He suggested we go to one other store (where we had shopped for our floor initially) and talk to a specific person in the contractor department and have him help us. So we headed over and this guy was great. We showed him the granite and the floor samples and told him what we were looking for. He took us into the showroom and within a couple of minutes found a tile that we both really liked. We ordered it and our contractor will pick it up tomorrow morning.
He attached the cabinet hardware yesterday so that was a significant step. It looks great. Cabinets are white and hardware is brushed nickel so while not adding "color" it does give a nice contrast and a bit of shine to offset the plain white of the cabinets.
He started putting up the bead board in the bathroom which he finished today along with the top molding and baseboard. He said that as soon as he paints that he can install the toilet.
Today was a big day. The countertop was installed! It looks great and now the room is really starting to look like it's nearly done. He will start installing the backsplash tomorrow. He said he wants to do the sink wall first because it will be easier to tile there before he installs the faucet. Hopefully he'll get that done tomorrow so that we can have a working sink by the end of the day. I'm pretty sure that's his plan. If so, we can actually start using the kitchen tomorrow night and this weekend. The only thing missing is the dishwasher which isn't coming until next Friday but we can obviously live without that and hand wash stuff for now.
Once he gets the backsplash tile tomorrow, we will take a few pieces and go paint shopping. The tile isn't a uniform color. It's got some variation from piece to piece and even within each piece. We have to decide which tone we want to pull out for the paint. We want the bathroom a different but complimentary color to the kitchen so we have to pick that, too.
Our guy said he's hoping to be done by the end of next week. If that happens, it will put us at 7 weeks, 3 days total. His original estimate was 4-6 weeks, which I never expected to happen. In my mind, 8 weeks was what I anticipated so it looks like he will come in just under that. I think he is disappointed that it has gone longer than his estimate, but the whole floor situation really set him back as that turned out to be a much bigger job that anticipated due to the condition of the old floor layers once he started the demo. We are not the least bit upset though. As I said, I didn't think 6 weeks was realistic anyway. If he's done in under 8, I'll be totally satisfied. And if it goes beyond next week for any final touches, that's fine too. We want it done right, not fast. We are waiting for several replacement cabinet doors so I don't know when those will come. Probably not before next week, so it won't be totally done even if he's out of here otherwise.
July 11th, 2025 at 01:24 pm 1752236678