Wednesday

We hung a picture this afternoon.

Then tonight, UPS delivered the other frame. This piece of art was mounted on a foam board and was about 1/2 inch too wide for the frame. I got my ruler and box cutter and trimmed each side 1/4 inch. It fit perfectly.

I like the colors.

I think they look good with the backsplash.

Our construction boss came by to wrangle the lines under the sink so that we could better utilize the storage space in the dead zone.

But the best thing he did was to use velcro strips to add a toe kick over the dishwasher's black toe kick. It not only makes the toe kick look better, it also covers a gap in the tile where the concrete floor was showing. 

I didn't have a good "before" picture, but here's the best one I could find. See the black toe kick under the dishwasher above? It's a piece of metal that I had originally put in the garbage, thinking it was part of the packaging material. For some reason, I took it out and saved it just in case. It turns out it was the toe kick, an ugly and thin piece of black metal. The boss fabricated a cover for it out of our leftover materials and stuck it on.

He noticed a missing escutcheon around the waste pipe in the laundry room. (Notice the escutcheons--trim rings--around the water supply lines.) He said that the waste pipe was larger than the standard size and he would need to fabricate one. I had noticed it was missing, but I didn't think it was a big deal. He will fix that when he comes for the inspection, which he said would either be one person or three, depending on who is available from the city. He will also fabricate a covering for the refrigerator water line that runs through the wall behind the kitchen cabinets. Originally, they were going to install a water line box, but it got missed before the drywall repairs were made. (The box has to be nailed to a stud and to do that would require cutting out some drywall.) These are the little things that keep a project going and going. I told John it reminded me of moving. You think you're through and then you turn around and see more stuff. The Ottoson folks are very patient and thorough. I'm a little shy about pointing out problems, but thankfully John is not. And truthfully, they've pointed out more flaws than either of us. Then they come up with fixes.