Your weekly update, new and improved with a cute baby in every post! We are in the final stretch. The time left before we move in can be measured in weeks not months. And I can almost count what’s left to do on my fingers (ok … and toes) (ok … might need my wife’s fingers and toes too).
This week was:
Trim

We had new trim custom cut to match the original trim in the house. This is deeply satisfying. The old trim had a cut that I have not seen in any other house. Not even other houses in Crestview. It perfectly captures the style of the house. Teetering between the first and last halves of the mid 20th century. The outside edge has an s-curve to it and the inside has a straight notch. It’s like one part Glenn Miller, one part Dave Brubeck. It’s a nod to modern with a foot in the past, circa 1951.

Tile
We had a big, ugly mix-up over the wall tile for the bathrooms. We had spec’ed mud cap and the contractor had translated that to bullnose. This is the piece that goes at the top of the tile on the wall and is a transition from the tile to the drywall.

A mud cap brings the tile about a half-inch away from the wall. This is how shower surrounds were done from most of the 20th century, but is not as common now.

Bullnose is a fake mud cap that sticks flat on the wall.
This would have been an easy change except for the plumbing for the shower, which has a half-inch tolerance for the depth of the wall.
This is really about the most important detail in the design of the bathroom. We spec’ed out $45 wall mount sinks knowing that with the mud cap wall tile, it would look just like a 1950′s bathroom. But with regular bull nose, it looks more like the men’s room at a Chevron. It kills me that we have all of this custom work done and the one thing that’s available off the shelf is not going in.
I have not made my peace with this and still have an image in my head of me taking a crowbar to the whole mess at some later date.
Doors
We spec’ed some super nice doors at Lowe’s. Ace had the same thing custom made for less. They look great and were installed today (Saturday!). I put my hand on one to close it, and it felt like home.

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