Meeting of the Minds

This morning we met with our architects from formativ and went over a laundry list of items. Our contractor, Lew, was also in attendance so that we were able to update him immediately on our decisions. One long-standing (yet not-so-exciting) point of discussion was about the trim that will border our "main" doors—these are the doors to the bedrooms and bathrooms. We have now settled on what we will be doing for this trim as well as for the baseboards. It's minor, but it's something we can cross off of our (very long) list.

We also reviewed the paint colors that we are considering for the various rooms in the apartment. Essentially, we're thinking about "grey". Pale grey in the main room, medium grey in the master bedroom, dark grey in the guest bedroom, and a pale grey blue in the bathrooms. We were sort of expecting to narrow down our top 2 or 3 choices for each room to 1, but Ron and Lissa (our architects) suggested that Lew get some paint samples from Benjamin Moore and try them out on the walls. I'm hoping this will help our finalize the colors, but I'm betting on more indecision and contemplation.

Since our wood flooring arrived last week, we were able to sneak a peak at it today with everyone there. I wish we could have paused and taken a photo for you, because it was pretty great. I was getting nervous (it's such a big decision based off of a relatively small sample of flooring) but WOW! I think, er hope, you'll have the same reaction when you see it. Just wait. Right now the sound proofing continues to be set down, but after that, comes the flooring. Hopefully we'll be able to take a picture before it gets covered up with protective paper.

We also took a sneak peak of our new kitchen sink since that recently arrived. Well, we sort of peaked at it—the bottom actually, since it was up-side-down in a big box. Given the weight of the thing we didn't try to turn it around, but boy it's big. B-I-G BIG! I'm excited just thinking about all the dishes we can pile in there! Thankfully we're getting a dishwasher (and that it's not Steve or I)—I hope it's big enough.

There was one other big point of discussion today, and that was about the pendant light that will go over our dining room table. We have the very long (90.5") Big Sur dining table from Crate & Barrel and we LOVE LOVE LOVE it. We want to make sure that the pendant light we choose fits both the table and the room. However, we have a big issue—the ceiling connection where the pendant needs to attach is not directly over the table. We have had a lot of discussion over this one issue and I think we'll be asking you to vote on our pendant lamp finalists soon...