More tile, trim and pantry shelves...

More tile, trim and pantry shelves...

January 6th -- It was too cold and snowy for anyone to work over the weekend, although the bitter cold did not stop the tile setter from going ice fishing, which you have to admit is ironic, especially since he told me on Friday that he didn't want to come to work over the weekend because it was supposed to snow on Saturday.  Who wants to go to work when it is snowing when you can go ice fishing in single digit temps!  LOL!

The tile in the master bathroom was set today, as shown in these photos, and matches the tile floor in the shower that I showed in a prior post.

The grout has been applied to the tile in the 3/4 bathroom off the gathering room as shown below

 




And the subway tile that will go from the floor to about 1/3 up the wall behind the toilet and next to the vanity, will be installed soon.


















The head finish carpenter and I discussed a few revisions to the built-ins in the mudroom that make more sense.  The coat closet will be moved to the east wall of the mud room (instead of in between the windows on the south side of the mudroom) with cubbies and a place for the bike next to it.  A bench will now run from the south west wall of the mudroom to the second window on the south wall, with some coat hooks and a shelf with cubbies above it.  On the north wall of the mudroom there will be more coat hooks with a shelf with cubbies above it.  


There was only one finish carpenter on site today, but he had his marching orders and got a lot done.  He re-framed the doorway to the guest suite bathroom which will now open into the bedroom instead of the very small bathroom.  He also set the vanity in the guest suite bathroom, as shown below.

Then he started preparing the pantry for shelving.  Below you can see the strips where the shelves will go on the north wall of the pantry.

The east wall of the pantry will also have shelves that wrap around to the north wall except for a section, shown below that is a large "cubby" where my vacuum cleaner will go.  There will be shelves above the vacuum cleaner, which have been penciled onto the wall on the other side of the vertical board in these photos -- how cool is that?    There will also be a cleat board installed for hanging brooms, dust mops, and the like.  The head finish carpenter is indeed a closet/storage/shelving guru!

 The painter also made a surprise and always welcomed visit.  He provided some very helpful and valuable advice regarding my struggle to choose paint colors.  His timing could not be better and he was very helpful. He will return on Wednesday to begin sanding around the windows.  He will need to wait until the tile is done and the finish carpenters have completed the trim around the windows and have installed the baseboard before he can return to the drywall work that remains.

And, the gutters will be hung as soon as it warms up, which should be tomorrow.  Once we get a few days of warm weather, the piers for the south side deck will be dug and poured.  I am waiting to hear from the deck store to know when the decking material will be delivered.

I continue to hope that all this good progress continues and the weather cooperates.