May 4, 2006 - Thursday - Another one of Jeffrey's famous "arm shots". Here
we see the guest bath nearing completion. Sink is in and plumbed, vanity
light is installed, and a wonderful oval vanity mirror (which opens into a
medicine cabinet) is installed. We chose the model MMV1132 by
Zenith Products.
It looks great, is reasonably priced, and is made in the USA!
May 4, 2006 - Thursday - Here is another "arm shot" of the same vanity mirrors
installed in the master bath, but this time his and hers! As mentioned
previously, all the sink fixtures in the home are made by
Delta right here in the
USA!
May 5, 2006 - Friday - In this picture you can see the bamboo molding has been
installed to make a nice transition from the tile floor to the bamboo floor.
These molding are made by
Artistic Finishes in the good old USA!
May 5, 2006 - Friday - Molding installation is in progress. Here we see
the base molding being installed in the dining area. We chose 535 Colonial
base molding for this home. At 3.5 inches high it makes a good statement without
looking over done. For "casing" molding around the doors we chose 356
Casing. Both are very common shapes of molding and are made by a wide
range of manufacturers. We speced "MDF" molding for our green built home.
MDF stand for Medium Density Fiberboard and is typically made from 100% recycled
material, typically sawdust. It comes primed so all we do is paint, cut,
and install. Since most spec builders currently paint their molding white,
we decided to be a bit different and paint ours the same color as the walls.
It looks really nice!
May 5, 2006 - Friday - Shown here is the molding work at the base of the
fireplace. It also can be mentioned here that we ALWAYS try out every last
fixture and item we put in our homes to make sure they work as expected.
We never want a new buyer to find out something doesn't work when we should have
tested it prior to the home sale. To that end we installed the propane
tank and have burned in the fireplace, hence the fire extinguisher. Not
only do we want the fireplace to work the first time a new buyer tries it, we
also don't want the home to stink the first time they light it up as fireplaces
always do when first used. Again building homes we would be happy to have
our mother live in.
May 5, 2006 - Friday - Its a bit hard to see in this picture, but we wanted to
make the trim around the exterior doors stand out a bit more than the interior
doors so we decided to use the 535 base trim here too.
May 5, 2006 - Friday - As in many spec homes, the garage is simply sheet rocked
and fire taped. This is what we do as well and if the new owner wants to
finish this off and paint they can have at it!
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