Progress AND pictures!

I had to leave beautiful, sunny, warm Maine (NOT!) to meet the counter top templater guy this morning. I stopped by the glass place and picked up the cabinet doors. They looked ok, but I couldn't help second guessing my glass choice - it's so hard to decide.'

I got so nervous as I approached the house - butterflies - I don't know why exactly, it wasn't an excited nervous, it was an anxious nervous. But, it passed.

When I went in the house, I got to see all the progress that has been made this week! The floors are almost done, all the cabinets were installed, and the trim for the colonnade.

<--Detail of the colonnade

I had to wait until almost 11 for Juan (the templater). It took him a couple hours for the templating process (from start to finish). We hit one glitch when he saw my sink - he says it's too big to have a the faucet that I chose behind it. We talked a bit about options, and he's going to make it fit - it will be tight, and he's going to have to modify the front of the sink to make it fit. I hope I don't regret that decision.

<-my name on the template
^the "bar" template

Dave put the glass doors on my cabinets while I was there, and they look great - I really like the glass now that it's on the cabinet. It goes to show you that it can look so totally different from sample, to just in the door, and then finally on the cabinet. I did wish I had gotten stiles, but I think it looks good without them, just would have looked that much better with them. The picture really doesn't do it justice. Click on it to enlarge it to see the detail of the glass.

Juan said that he thought he would be back next Friday for the install of the soapstone! I am both happy, but surprised - I really didn't want to go back next Friday just for the install. I asked him if it was ok if Dave was there instead of me. I don't want to hold up the install, but I really don't want to take time from my vacation, especially seeing as we really haven't even started it yet. Watch Friday be the best beach day of the summer!

Dave said he thought they would wait until the countertops were in before they finished the floors. It's ok with me, but I was thinking that it would be a good thing to do while we were all out of the house, but he's thinking that the less traffic on them, the better - which, of course, makes sense.

Everyone is off tomorrow for the holiday, so there won't be anything new until Monday, and no one to tell me about it anyway.