What Now???

You think I'm talking about what project next? Nope. Talking about what damn little nitpick-y detail is going to go wrong and cause another infernal delay in the wrapping up of the remodel.

I don't spend much time at the house during the punch list, so I hear this stuff second hand but where do I start?

Let's start with doors (or lack of them). I'll start by saying it's just STUPID to have me measure for and order doors. I'm good at a lot of things. Shopping in even one of those things. Apparently shopping for doors is not. Lesson learned. Just when I thought I knew it all.

I walked through that frickin' door order with everybody and their brother before placing the order. Maybe that's the problem. Should've talked to a sister or two. Learned how to measure (ok, thought I learned how to measure); learned how to tell if a door is right- or left-handled; learned about split jambs and louvered door code requirements...you get the idea.

Then I placed the order.

Then the drywall guys ripped all the jambs out of the existing rooms and I changed the order (to prehung, of course).

Then Home Depot didn't change the order in the system like they told me they did. They still made me wait three weeks AS IF they changed the order. And when they order came it was wrong.

Then they made right and changed the order and I waited another 3 weeks for the right doors. That turned out to be not ALL the right doors.

Then the framers/roofers/handymen/save-my-ass guys worked their magic and made the most of what we had and got doors almost everywhere.

Then here we sit needing another bifold that we don't have time to special order and the two louvered doors that never came. And for some reason, I am so paralyzed by all the other nitpick-y punchlist things that have been lumped on my plate because everybody else's plate is overflowing (or broken because they got so pissed they just threw it at a wall to get some aggression out. It's pretty cathartic - the sound of breaking china that you threw at a wall.) that I can't bring myself to just go out to the house, remeasure and sit down with lifesaver Roger at Home Depot and try again to get a door for every doorway.

Good. Got that out of my system. Now for the bright side. The doors are the purtiest things ever. They are lovely birch solid core finish grade doors that really look great. A far cry from the bad hollow core raised panel doors we started with.

bad hollow core raised panel door we started with

pretty new shiny solid core birch 1954 appropriate door we end with

They're gonna look even better if I can find a painter who can slick 'em up real nice with polyurethane without ruining any other paint job...or floors. But that's another blog.