We are getting close to having the house design finalized. One metric of how close we are is that it had been two weeks since the last time we moved a wall. Until yesterday. When selecting bathroom tiles, Daphne indicated that she did not want the second floor bathroom shower tiled, but would rather a nice looking fiberglass wall / floor combination. These are much easier to keep clean – no grout to attract mold.
Unfortunately, when picking out the shower assembly, we realized that the shower size had to be adjusted, which also meant that the bathroom needed to be rearranged to fix the new footprint of the shower. Here is the new second floor bathroom layout including elevations (side views).
Unfortunately, the redesign forced us to move the wall between the bathroom and the back bedroom’s closet, shrinking the closet slightly to make room for the larger shower. Hopefully, this will be the last wall change.
Meanwhile, they have started putting in the beams that will hold up the first floor. Here is how things looked mid-day on Wednesday.
Since this is a Wednesday, that means another meeting with the architect. From now on, we will meet on site with the architect and the builder. Right now, Daphne is attending remotely via iPad. In this picture you can see the architect showing one of the design documents to Daphne. The builder is in the white tee-shirt behind the architect.
The decision on what exterior door to use is not finalized. We decided to buy one of the doors we are are thinking of using. If we like it, we will buy three more. If we don’t like it, well, it will be installed as the basement door, hidden under the deck, either way.
We will play the same trick with the kitchen sink. We will buy one sink and faucet to make sure we like it. Either way, it will become the sink in the laundry room.
Anyway, work continues on the beams and soon they will put in the supports, but also drill and place the exterior supports for the deck and the porch. The framing should be completed in mid-June. Then the windows get installed and then the siding gets installed. Another round of back filling happens after the exterior supports are places, and then you will no longer see the orange panels (they will be entirely underground).
Correction on bathroom changes. Daphne pointed out that the main reason for the change was because the pre-fab shower assemblies only do three walls and the previous design had a fourth half-wall next to the sinks that you can see below. Also the pre-fab that Daphne has selected is not actually fiberglass, but stone.
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