Y'know how when anyone that has gone through a remodel tells you that a 3 month remodel will end up being a 5 or 6 month remodel? I finally understand why... For us it isn't that our contractors are slow or perpetually late (on the contrary, as I have mentioned before they are ALWAYS early -- who has ever heard of contractors that are early or on time?) It has to do with the "well, since they are here already..." phrase used between couples.

If Gary and I stayed with our original plan of remodeling the kitchen and master bath and building a 3rd bay to the garage - I am sure we would have been done a while ago. However, we keep adding things and those things have to be scheduled and so forth. Now, I am not complaining, because anything we did not have Ideal Building do, we would probably be doing ourselves -- so I am very happy to have them do it. I am just stating the obvious as we near completition of our remodel (and get ready for the biggest 'well, since they are here already" addition - the fireplace).



As you see from the picture above, this week we had the slider installed in our TV room. We have flipped the doors on the slider, so this allows us to leave the chair where it is and have the door open on the other side to our deck.

'Well, since they are here already' ALERT - We are now considering flipping the other slider in the TV room that opens up to our side deck where the barbecue is located...

I got a call from Distinctive Glass on Friday and they had a cancellation and wanted to know if it would be okay to have the new shower door and mirror for the bathroom delivered on Saturday morning between 8 and 9am. I agreed, but boy was Gary grumpy thinking that this would cut into his beauty sleep (y'know he needs a lot of it). :-)

So, 7:30am on Saturday morning rolls around and I wipe the sleep from my eyes and walk into the working bathroom only to notice out the window that the shower door guys are sitting in their van in our driveway. So I wake Gary up (from his beauty sleep) and we both head downstairs with the dogs just as the guys ring our door bell at 7:38am!! I told Robert, from Ideal Building, that I think these guys are related to him...

The mirror went up pretty quickly and now Ideal Building will come in and frame the mirror in pine like the rest of our trim in the house. It will finish off the vanity nicely. The guys from Distinctive Glass spent most of their 2 hours here installing the new frameless shower door. It looks great and I cannot wait to start using it. We just have a few things to finish with the shower fixtures and drain to make it fully functional.

On Sunday, Gary and I went down to Costco Home Store to look for a TV Room coffee table. We did not know this place existed until our good friend Steve told us about it over dinner. So we walked through the home store in Kirkland and found a coffee table that is exactly what we were looking for. It complements the furniture nicely and provides additional seating if necessary.

Finally, we bought a 4X6 rug for the kitchen. Instead of doing small rugs under the sink and fridge, we thought that we would look for a nice rug that would accent the room and think that this one fits the bill.

This week, we are not expecting much work until Thursday or Friday, when Ideal Building will be back to work on the bathroom and hopefully have the garage door and other exterior stuff painted...