Post Walk Through and Many, Many Pictures

It appears that I may have been skimping on pictures lately. I don't know if it's that we took a bunch in the past few days or if I'm somehow had so much to write about that I was skipping stuff. Probably both.

We had our walkthrough with Kathleen on Friday. I can't say it's was the most efficient two hours. We got through most of the house, but there were still workers doing things and a cleaning person going through the house. We walked out at the end of the two hours with the laundry room, garage and exterior still left. The laundry room's not even done yet (no counter), the garage is still full of MOC's stuff and I'm not sure if you realize this, but it's cold outside....

In the end, the punch list wasn't too bad. The most difficult thing was probably the light switches. Between some of them clearly being wrong and Ann and I forgetting what some where supposed to be, we spent a couple trips trying to clear that up.

So, MOC now has 10 working days to resolve everything on the list. That also means we've got a few days left here to add anything to the list.

Anyway, I said pictures, so let's get some pictures in here. The front of the house is a good place to start. These are only a couple days apart with the first shot pre-lights and sidelights around the front door.



With the exception of the tape around the glass on the front door (for painting), the exterior is basically done. I guess we need to figure out a mailbox, but we're really, really, really close.

If you step inside the front door and look left, you'll see the music room. You could say this room appears finished, but there's still quite a bit left to go before the music aspect is obvious. Our sliding doors are still on the way (you may notice the track in the floor and ceiling), and we'll eventually get things like guitars on the walls. But, here's a few pics over the past few weeks.



If you look right as you come in you'll see the stairs. They really haven't changed much over the past several weeks. They had to clean up some dings in the redwood, but that's about it. I guess the one part of the inspection that we "got away with" was the stairs. Apparently we have too much space between the treads, but the inspector didn't catch it. We were just going to throw up some trim under each tread to close that gap and then take them down later, but hopefully we'll not have to do that.



I threw that last shot in because it's another view of what you see as you walk in the house. Which reminds me that I don't think I've ever taken a photo of what you see directly in front of you as you walk in. Hmmm, I may need to change that.

The last kitchen shot I posted had the counter-tops installed, but still covered in paper. Here's the next step, which goes along with the "house like a beehive" analogy. You'll also notice through the work that the appliances have been installed, but are still covered up.



I posted a shot of the cabinet hardware the other day, so we'll skip that stage. After that, it was basically coating the cabinet doors, etc that hadn't been done, removing the paper from everything and cleaning. Oh, and the other thing you'll notice here is the lights are in and work.

So, somewhat final kitchen shots....



So, I'm going to let everyone sit on that for a bit. It's MLK day and I'm home with the kids, so I suppose it's time to check them out... they are quiet... hmmm, good or bad?