Windows and Waiting

Well, we did indeed get our windows, so at least those came on schedule. Though that probably means the door and transom windows will arrive "on schedule" in mid-June. 

This week will be a stressful one while we go through inspections and learn whether or not we can proceed. We passed "water" last week and have electrical, plumbing, and framing this week. Framing requires that the unit be sealed, which, as you can imagine, requires a door and not a hole, covered with Tyvek...though it's possible that someone will have pity on us and divide that particular inspection into two parts that will allow us to proceed with a boarded up opening instead of an actual door.

Which is bad because we have a garage and basement full of the things we've been ordering that need to go INTO the house (sink, vanity, medicine cabinets, closet units) that we very much want out of our living space. Though I have to admit that besides the boxes, this addition has, as planned, had very little impact on our ability to live in our house. Besides through the crawl space, it really is just a thing that takes up a lot of room in our yard.

And so while we wait to learn the fate of our project, a few small details. We ordered our tile, which was what we decided on here with one exception. We'd already swapped out larger floor tiles for smaller ones in the shower thanks to your advice about smaller tiles being less slippery (thanks to grout lines). Our contractor and architect went one step further and advised that we stick to unglazed tile, to give it even more friction. So we opted for the penny tiles here, in Sapphire:

(If you can't read the miniscule writing, it's the very middle tile, second row up from the bottom.) We liked the hexes but they were backordered and we decided we did not want to risk it, so we stuck to the rounds in order to guarantee we could get them when we needed them. Which could be in a week or two or could be in June/July. SIGH.

The shower is looking a bit different, with some pretty intense waterproofing which we imagine is for the steam shower (because that needs even better sealing than an average shower).

Finally, we selected the Trex decking color from the three grays closest to our existing (very dingy) decking and similar to the stone on our patio:

We're going with the top one, called Pebble Grey (yes, they spell it the British way). We won't actually be getting the deck until among the last steps of this addition, but at least for once, it was an easy decision to make quickly--unlike our bathroom light fixtures, which we STILL haven't settled on after literally hours of searching.

Fingers crossed for good news this week!