Building a home

[dannubis]

"Yes, but can he cook ?"

[Asher]

Update.

Picked out granite, hardwood, tile, paint, backsplashes, carpet, trim, doors, door hardware today...

Kitchen granite is Silver Pearl:

It's slightly bolder in person, with some slight reflective bits.

Kitchen cupboards are the lighter brown I posted earlier.

Kitchen hardwood is natural birch:


Bathroom counters are quartz, not granite. They're white:

(Same cabinets)

Ensuite bathroom tile is 12x24" white-ish tile. Backsplash is a great patterned glass (in random rectangles of various shades).

The rest of the baths got a dark grey tile with a similar backsplash.

Carpet is a neutral very light grey/brown/taupe.

Paint is white-ish with a hint of gray, trim is white (it's a good contrast, subtle but definitely there).

[The Mad Monk]

MM: Are you one of those people keeping the lime green range in hopes of a resurgence?

Nope, though the first fridge I ever owned, donated from the basement by my parents, was harvest gold.

Classic white with gray trim.

My stand mixer, OTOH, is fire engine red.

[Asher]

It has begun!

[Dinner]

It's slightly bolder in person, with some slight reflective bits.

Those reflective bits are most likely mica. Mica is a very interesting sheet silicate which cleaves planeally in thin paper like sheets; what's really cool is each of those sheets can be deformed plasticly and it will go back to it's original shape. That's really unusual for a mineral.

[Dinner]

That lot looks small and your neighbor is right on top of you. Dude, I live in California, land of the small lots, but even I think that one is too close to the neighbors.

[Asher]

That lot looks small and your neighbor is right on top of you. Dude, I live in California, land of the small lots, but even I think that one is too close to the neighbors.

Narrow, longer lots are what you get, unless you want to spend $500K on the lot alone. It's 36 feet across, 120 feet long (plus a 20 foot wide pathway between my house and the neighbour behind me). They're close at the side, but there's virtually no windows at the side anyway.

Even for that lot, it was $180,000 for just the dirt.

IIRC there only has to be ~10 feet between the walls of each house.

[MRT144]

You should sell body burying space right now.

[Asher]

That'll obviously be going in to the sub-basement catacombs and tunneling complex that'll also house a bomb shelter, sex dungeon, and Filipino boarding house. Two of these things may be the same thing.

[Egbert]

An igloo would be cheaper, cut up some ice and make it yourself.

[Krill]

Welcome to suburbia.

[Asher]

Looking forward to it. I'm done with the urban flat/condo thing.

[Krill]

Well, it's a good investment. Hold onto it for a few years then buy a house in the country.

[Flubber]

They're not builder options. I went to the largest appliance dealer in the city. It's a massive warehouse...not going to find more selection than that. They must've had 40 different types of Fridges alone...and a quick google search on the iPhone showed their prices to be cheaper than everyone else, when using the builder cost program.

I took the credit instead of the builder option appliances, because I didn't like them.

...

The idea of an appliance uplift was in your plan all along I am sure. Builder allowances for appliances are rarely anything you want and the upgrade is inevitable ---- (as I believe a Calgary based apolytoner advised before you even signed up.)

I bet I got my appliances at the same place as you and we also went for quality-- 9 years later and no issues (and our Bosch diswasher IS VERY quiet-- In fact my biggest complaint is sometimes you forget its on and open it mid cycle)

[Asher]

Trail?