Well not totally… We designed and had this house built… we like a lot of the things we did… my best accomplishment is the back deck… a covered, elevated, 10 x 60 deck facing our pond and the west sunsets… with a huge set of Oak trees to protect 3/4 of the deck in summer form the sun but open up in the winter to only shade 1/4 or less… I was lucky in that respect…
Current views..From the deck aimed SW across the pond… it doesn’t matter what time of year it is, the view is still a great one…
Winter view…
Spring view…
Summer evenings…
Now, the mistakes… we never really liked the kitchen… actually I didn’t everyone else just figured it was the way it was… We went cheap… used granite tiles instead of solid granite and the island was long, skinny and aimed the wrong way… so we determined to have it redone… maybe some better tile, fix the door that was in backward, or wrong, and real granite counters as well as redo the island. Monday they started…
and a lot of stuff got hauled out…
No more Island at this point and then
No more tile and the granite guy came to measure… that thing in the middle is his “auto-draw” machine… sets up… pulls out pointer to the various points of the counters… hits a button on a remote and poof it starts to layout the cabinets as well as levels, heights, etc.… I think? Anyway he got all the measures of the cabinets in place and then we will figure out the new island and he will have measures for that… So now we are kitchen-less… it is all in the living room and garage… ha! At present it is not too bad, but I sure miss my RO water machine… tap water tastes funny…
Hope to have the new tile down by next week… and plans for center island done this weekend… will see how it all comes together… after all… it is just the kids inheritance we are spending…
WD0AJG