The devil is in the details....

The Devil is in the Details....

April 25th  --  I finally got around to painting the "claws" on the claw foot tub a contrasting white to the black, which is something that I've been meaning to do for a while.  This fits with the overall black and white motif of the guest bathroom.  Somewhere in a box in the garage is a set of bright red towels, which will eventually hang on the towel bars in this bathroom.  Tomorrow this bathroom with get the "construction" clean treatment. 

It is paying attention to the little things that counts -- inside the house and outside the house.

I continue to be amazed by how exacting the landscape crew is when cutting and fitting the large pieces of flagstone into the mosaic that will be the patio.  Once the flagstone is set, they will put sand and soil in between the stones.  I will grow lemon thyme in the spaces between the stones -- yes, I know I will have to weed -- which will eventually provide a nice contrast between foliage and stone.

Here is the view from the upper-level sitting room windows

Now I am standing in the front yard looking west at the south side of the house.  Eventually, there will be a privacy fence about where I am standing.  There will be a small planting bed between the edge of the flagstone patio and the privacy fence.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
The flagstone patio wraps around the deck, but does not extend to the alcove between the entry to the greenhouse and the east wall of the mudroom.  

There will be pea gravel in this alcove where I will eventually move the gas grill and the potting bench. 











You can see in this photo (taken from the west end of the house looking east) how the walkway from the patio to the rear-entry back porch and garage is beginning to take shape.  



There will be either pea gravel or wood chips on either side of this walkway which will then turn into another mini-patio that will wrap around the rear-entry porch.  This will also tie into the entry to the garage.







This last photo is the view from the back porch of the rear-entry to the mud room and shows how the walkway will be laid along the exterior of the mud room on the south side of the house.

Only one of the landscape crew will work half a day tomorrow. 

My job this weekend will be to lay out the 1" x 6" planks and the 4" x 4" planks so that on Monday, the landscape crew will cut the 1" x 6" into 8' lengths and the 4" x 4" into 18" lengths which will form the sides and corner pieces, respectively, for the raised beds for the backyard that I will assemble.