More cabinets going in pics

There's still the crown molding to get on and the toe kicks (after floors) and the refrigerator cubby to be done. The island will be reinforced too for whatever the granite guy says on Friday.



The empty place to the left of the skinny pull out pantry will be shelves. The back splash will continue up this wall both here behind the shelves and behind the cooktop. The built-in refrigerator is to the right of the pantry next to the door.

Cabinets going in - 1st day July 27

Cabinets should take about 2 days to install. Here's the progress after the first day.

Floors

Wood floor has been in for a couple of business days now and the weekend. It is "acclimating" before it can be fully finished. We are doing top nailed white oak like the rest of this house. After the long discussions about whether the existing was red or white oak and then seeing the actual boards, I was worried that we'd picked the wrong one (one bid said red and two said white).




Finish has been applied to where the cabinets will end up sitting - cheating a bit so we can get the cabinets OUT of the living room, foyer, and dining room.

Luckily it does match the existing pretty closely (where the green towel is in the pic below).

Master bathroom tile

Tile is in and cleaned up, but not grouted yet. The grout was special order apparently. This time we're trying the QuartzLock 2 (http://www.starquartz.com/) . It's resin based and "green". Contractor did not like working with the epoxy last time and since it's a light colored tile, any issues will show.

Cabinets

Cabinets arrived yesterday. The took over 1/2 the foyer, part of the dining room, and part of the living room. David says they'll start going in tomorrow. I was happy to see the green sticker which said basically that it conforms with the CA 2012 law on formaldehyde content. These are from Aristocratic, based out of Washington state.

Bedroom windows

It was pretty difficult matching the trim with rest of the house, but I think David got it pretty close after many trips to lumber places. All of the window and door trims are done now. They will paint after the wood floors get done.

Bathroom tile

Bathroom is tiled. Needs a day to dry and then they can seal/enhance/grout. They also have the trim up on the windows. Tile is Halila Limestone. The floor has a border that has small squares of different color stone. You can't see it yet because its under that pink paper. The floor also has heating under it. There wasn't a good place to stick a heater duct without building an ugly soffit in the family room below, so we went with the heater thing under the floor tiles (it's called WarmUp Radiant Floor Heating).

Granite

Finally found granite for the countertops and island. 2 slabs.