We had our weekly meeting at the house (a day early). Yesterday the cabinets arrived. They are all still in boxes, although we opened some boxes to inspect them.

Here is a cabinet for the main part of the kitchen. Most of the kitchen and dining room cabinets are natural wood.

Here is a cabinet for the dish washing area or the west side of the pantry (they are the same color).

Here is a cabinet for the east side of the pantry, opened for inspection. These cabinets are lighter to avoid the pantry from being too dark.

And here is a cabinet for the upstairs kitchenette.

Work continues on the game room beams. In this picture you can see that the main beam is in place along with two side beams (the decorative beams look nicer – that’s how you can tell).

Outside, the construction crew was getting ready to finish the deck. Meanwhile, the electrical crew was back to install all the lights in the house. Here is a picture of the light next to the garage door.

And here is the south side of the deck, with two lights.

I also saw that some of the exterior outlet covers were now in place. Here you can see two on deck next the garage. These outlets are used for plugging in the toaster and coffee maker during bagel brunches (they are on separate circuits).

The biggest design decision today revolved around the need for a post under the banister for the stairs to the second floor. The banister, and the post, would both stick out into the hallway because code requires the banister to extend over the bottom-most stair. Besides discussing material (we want wood) and geometric shape, one idea under consideration is to actually extend the living room wall an extra 8 inches so the bottom stair and banister would not stick out into the hall. Decision to be made soon.

That said we also reviewed the plans for the screen on the porch, and the tile layout for both the downstairs and upstairs bathrooms. There are additional upcoming decisions about how to handle the threshold between the master bathroom tile floor and the luxury vinyl tile in the hallway. Having a slightly raised threshold would hide any gap caused by temperature variations, at the expense of having a slightly raised threshold. Decision to be made soon.

Finally, I have a new phone (Pixel 10 Pro), which means I now have a much better phone camera to use for pictures. Here is an updated picture of the river front behind the house with the new camera. It helps that it is a sunny day.

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