Getting closer

Quite a lot has been done in the past week. Not quite ENOUGH as it was supposed to be move-inable on Friday (with carpet installed) but that didn't happen so we're still not back in the house. However, the end is in sight, I think.

The laminate and linoleum flooring are installed downstairs, mostly. There is one section of the laminate that looks odd (right in the doorway to the TV room) so they're going to fix the joints on that, and the lino didn't get put into the storage space under the stairs. For some reason we have a heck of a lot of left over lino, so apparently they thought they were going to be replacing some of the existing stuff, and then didn't, so that's quite a waste of lino and money. The baseboards are in place, but the quarter-round edging isn't, so there are gaps between the flooring and the baseboard at the moment. The paint needs retouching now, too, because they spray-painted the baseboards after installing them, and over-sprayed onto the walls, which had previously been finished. Hopefully in fixing the walls, they don't over-spray back onto the baseboards, or we'll be back and forth forever!

Upstairs, the tile in the bathroom is done and it looks great. The toilet has been purchased but not yet installed, so it's still in the box in the bathroom. We haven't fully selected a cabinet yet -- we know what sort of thing we want, but haven't found/ordered it. What we want is pretty basic -- just standard cabinets with a either a drawer above cupboards, or a stack of drawers on one side (or in the middle) and a cupboard on the other (or both) side(s). We already know which counter top we want.

In the bedroom, the underlay for the carpet is in place, and it sounds like the carpet guy is coming tomorrow (Tuesday) to install the actual carpet.

Most of the light fixtures have been installed. I had offered to tell the builder which ones belonged where back when we first bought them, but he wasn't ready to know that yet... so when he was ready, he didn't ask and a couple got put into the wrong spots. We were there tonight and put up some post-it notes to say which ones need changing.

We did notice a couple of odd things tonight. One is that the light switch for the hallway downstairs is in the middle of the hall, rather than at the end where you'd normally find it! There's another switch at the far end of the hall, so it's not like it needed to be there so you could get to it from either end. We're going to ask for that to be moved, but it might be a bit of a job since the wall is already completed. *Sigh* The other thing that Brooke just noticed is there is a bit of wall that was supposed to be removed (it even shows it as being removed on the original plans) but it's still there. I hadn't noticed it before, but now that he's pointed it out, I agree it does look rather odd. We're going to check the photos we took earlier to see if there's a beam there, which might be why it was left in.