Well, I’ve added another monkey wrench to the color selection. I realize that I do not have as much budget for the courtyard as I wish. Originally I wanted to cut some channels in the boring concrete and fill with black river rock. Well, my concrete saw is a goner…our jackhammer is broken…and that would be a lot of money at this point.
So, going with Plan B and applying a pebble tech coating onto the courtyard floor. So, of course this is introducing another color selection. I want to keep it light so the concrete doesn’t get too hot. Going to wait until I get that applied before finalizing front door selection:)
The cost to rent the equipment just to cut a couple of channels would be close to $200. Not in the budget right now. Have no idea how our expensive equipment broke over the last year. We think we can fix the jackhammer but it has to go out to get fixed somewhere, however the concrete saw already left the building.
Even if we cut the channels and fill them with river rock, still have to paint out the rest of the concrete or do something with the bare concrete
Back to the door. We can’t see the colors at different times of the day, or with natural vs artificial lights. Or what it looks like open from IN the house.
The kitchen is not horrible, but it feels completely out of place. The shaker cabinet style is not compatible with MCM style. Imagine modern flat panel cabinetry in a turn of the 20th century Craftsman… just like that.
We did everything we could to finish up the interior of the house this week because the flooring was delivered and we start installing the flooring on Monday. The order and delivery of the flooring was a debacle. The wholesale place refuses to talk to me and my installer is out of town on big job. First, they forgot to place the order. I call on Saturday to find out that there was no order for me to pay for. OK, I get it paid on Saturday and they confirm deliery Tuesday.
Tuesday comes and I have to call them. Yes, there are only 3 deliveries today and my stuff is on the truck. 3pm rolls around and I call back. Ohhh, didn’t someone call you? There was an emergency and we had to send the truck to LA. Lots of calling around and they tell me Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning they call me about 10pm and there is all kinds of confusion because they say my order is for X which is not correct. Finally they call back and they ‘found’ the order for Y. Which, of course, tells me that there never was anything on a truck Tuesday. Then I find out “Ohh, the trim pieces and foam underlayment are backordered.”
Finally, Wednesday afternoon we get 68 boxes of flooring and lot of self leveling cement. And the rest gets delivered on Thursday. Thank goodness I don’t have the nonsense of ‘acclimating’ the floor for 10 days or something or we would get way behind schedule. This flooring has been in stock at the warehouse in San Diego for a long time and it is plenty acclimated.
My master bath quartz countertop got installed on Wednesday and the guys cut the sink holes wrong! They cut them 1/2" too big and the sink edges are showing under the cut. I have worked with the fabricator for years, so the boss (who is the guy I originally started working with 9 years ago) and they took it away and brought a brand new one on Thursday. Luckily it was a standard color and I’m sure they had it in their yard left over from another job. I wasn’t too worried about it because I knew they would make it right. Just didn’t expect them to come rushing back the next morning. It was funny because I received a lot of calls from the boss on ‘who did the measurement?’ "who did the cut?’ How would I know??.. there were 2 new guys and they were outside all day.
Quartz piece (Pearl White, which is the one with little turquoise flecks and shiny specks) $150 and 2 bath undermount sinks $45. Install $400 because there were 2 sink cuts. Total for custom countertop was $595 which is more than I would have liked. He charged me too much for the fabrication. He gave me the price before there was the cut error. But, I also asked the guy to cut another hole in my kitchen sink for a soap dispenser and fix several things in the kitchen. We couldn’t get some of the doors/drawers closed because they mounted the quartz too low, so they had to grind the bullnose a bit.
Almost done painting the interior. I am still trying to decide on a color for an accent wall across the tall wall in the kitchen around the stove and vent. We had to cover everything in plastic to get ready for grinding the concrete floors. There are a lot of issues in the concrete floors that will have to get fixed before we can lay down the new floor.
Now I have a very large pile of things that have to go to the dump, including a LOT of dangerous glass pieces pulled out of the windows.
Someone purchased a fixer across the street several months before I purchased this house. I have been watching very slow progress on the empty house. They built in the courtyard to create another bedroom and changed the front of the house.
But, the thing that is intriguing me is their choices on the exterior. I cannot imagine what the inside looks like. They spent thousands of dollars to have someone put horrid reddish/orange/black pavers on the driveway with a 90s medallion style in the middle. Then they put in fake grass. The fake grass is OK but then they landscaped with orange mulch??? Who puts down orange mulch???
But the kicker is they have started painting up the front, even though the stucco isn’t finished. Bright peachy orange??? A full 70’s color. But not the kind of 70’s color that anyone would want. They are basically paying a bundle to remodel into something that looks ‘dated’. I just don’t get it
I loaded some photos of the house, although the colors are in the shade. It’s just so weird
I did not see your second post before looking at the photos. My first reaction- egads, what is that? Did someone hack into CB’s Flickr and post their gawdawful flip?
For all I know, the Russians could be hacking up that house! Lol. That looks like some attempt to build a Mediterranean estate. Lol again. When we were looking for House2, I came across a listing that had 6 bedrooms and 8 baths or so. I clearly remember that the toilets greatly outnumbered the bedrooms in that house. Anyway, I looked who the owners were, then googled the names… an article in Romanian popped up. Google translate revealed that the article was about a guy who moved to the US and achieved his American dream… and got a nice house almost next door to Bill G. And there were more photos of that “estate.” Compete with some awful plaster lions on the driveway posts. Just saying, CB, watch out for those lions!
