You never know when, or where, an "A-ha!" moment will occur.
On Sunday, Halloween, we attended the surprise birthday party of one of Roy's church choir members, Carol. It's not too far from our house, actually, and was coordinated by Carol's son & daughter-in-law, Will & Melissa, and held at their house in Parkwest 2 (which is another Westbury subdivision, we are Westbury 1).
As usual, everyone is hanging out in the kitchen, and we're talking and admiring the kitchen, which Carol said Will & Melissa had just re-done last year. I'm looking at the granite and thinking "that's Giallo Ornamental, isn't it..." and then looking at the cabinets and thinking "and those are the KraftMaid cherry wood in Cabernet, I just know it!".
Obviously, we started plying Will & Melissa with questions, and while neither one of them remembered the granite's name for sure (they knew they had looked at the Ornamental), yes, the cabinets were indeed the exact KraftMaid we have spec'ed, down to the curved door panel style!!
It was very cool that we were able to get a visual impression of what our color and style choices for our kitchen will look like, all the way down to the black appliances! There are a few things we'll do differently than they did, but to see it all put together on a large scale (versus a tiny sample of this next to a tiny sample of that) was just this absolutely unexpected treat for Halloween.
[The trick came today, in the form of an e-mail from the disliked owner of our prior design-build firm, Bill. We'll just leave it at that. To say I never want to deal with the man again would be putting it mildly.]
We need to find time to revise our scope of work and start shopping for an architect/designer/design-build firm. We have several recommendations to check into, we (meaning, Shelly) need to find time to interview them and get this project restarted. Only problem is, my work is not AT ALL conducive to this right now and won't be for a while yet...we're not exactly sure what we're going to be able to do, but since the piano is actively being restored, we need to be actively working on the remodel plan. Maybe we'll work on it on the plane ride and car ride to/from KS for T-day.
Monday, November 1, 2010
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