Good stuff first. Here is a pic of the fireplace:
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| Ruggedly handsome if I do say so myself! |
The tile floors in the mud room, 3 season porch & front entry are looking fantastic! The tile is a ceramic tile from Mannington called Serengeti Slate. The color is Midnight Mist.
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| 3 Season Porch |
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| The tile pattern is a mix of 12" & 6" tiles. |
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| Dave hard at work on the front entry |
Newel Post Headaches!
We didn't like the standard newel posts available thru our lumber yard's supplier, so we had Bayer Built (the company that supplied our stair parts & doors) design a custom newel post for us. We wanted a very simple box newel. In the end this is the design we came up with:
6 weeks later the posts arrived. They were exactly what we wanted except for one slight problem. The inset panel was made too tall. With newel posts, there needs to be several inched of space at the top of the post to connect your hand rail, and at the bottom, there needs to be 15-24" of space in case you have to sink the post down through the floor to secure it properly. Unfortunately, our post has neither of these things. The guy who made them lives in Royalton, MN. After a few phone calls, the posts are going back to Royalton to be fixed. Hopefully they will be back to our house by the middle of next week because it's getting down to crunch time. We start laying the hardwood floors in 2 days!!!
Siding Update
The Quality Edge siding rep came out to the house today and met with Emily, Ken from the lumber yard & Dave our siding installer. The rep agreed that the oil canning was very evident. There were also several areas where the paint was scratched off the siding even before it was taking out of the box. I'm thinking that Quality Edge might be due for a corporate name change!We are looking at different siding options, but it looks like we are going to be forced to change our color to a blue or gray. No what we had initially wanted, but it will still look great if we have to switch.
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