Okay, here's your list of 'owner provided materials', and they need to be onsite once construction begins.
Kitchen Sink....... 1 pcs. check! After much searching of reports, online recommendations, articles and reviews, we settled on a Farmers sink with a bowed apron. 36" sounds better than 33", more substantial. Yeah! We'll go with that. Amazon order placed. Check!
Kitchen sink faucet ...... 1 pcs., there must be five hundred models at Ferguson's Ft. Lauderdale showroom. And prices, yikes. What budget was designed for this stuff. No problem, Amazon to the rescue again. best prices, it'll be here in two days. What's the rush? Oh, free 2-day shipping, were 'Prime'.
Cabinet Pulls or Knobs.....36 pcs. Hmm. That's a religious issue. Lets go check Fairies in North Miami. Oye! They have hundreds of options, and Specialized Hardware in Pompano has a totally different array in their collection. How to sort? How to budget? maybe wooden round knobs would work! Only 98 cent a piece at Home Depot. Nah! Knobs must be inline with 'quality' of countertop (see below) and backspash (see further below). Okay, not today. We have time for this decision. Although it may be the last item on our list.
Flooring.....267 sq. ft.. Check! We, at Ron did, fell in love with selections at Lumber Liquidators at first glance. Look at the selections, textures, and pricing! Okay, lets be sorta green, go for bamboo. Not being laminate this stuff truly looks tuff. Okay. Now, how to get it home. Eighteen boxes, at about 60 lbs. per box, that might be two car loads and a whole lot of hauling. Luckily there's a muscular son-in-law happy to come 'assist' on Saturday morning. Did I mention he had access to a really good delivery cart? Easy-peasy.
Countertop....43 sq. ft. (or one full slab). Check! I never new 'green' was acquired at such a premium price. Must be a lot of work cutting up those oyster shells and recycled glass (see last blog by Karen). Well, at least that one is not sitting in our bedroom, it was delivered directly to our contractor's countertop guy. Where? No clue. but somewhere in Pompano. Maybe the back room at Specialized!
Backspash.....32 sq. ft.. Check! Now here's something we can get our hands around easily. After all, I did tile the wall behind our new stove only six months ago. Maybe I can do the whole kitchen this time. But what kind of tiles? This will take a tour of at least five to eight different custom tile shops. And the array of options and prices are endless. Oh, we forgot to mention, that anchoring with back-splash behind the new sink will be a custom photo, an image of Biscayne bay at sunset in a 20" x 30" format, mounted on metallic paper and under plexiglass. More on the artist in a later update. But at least we have a color theme.
Many showroom visits later, including several revisits, the tiles have been selected. Not to fail to mention the tiles we passed up, six inch frosted glass tiles with etched southwestern Indian motifs. Only $100 per tile on these. Not likely! But we stretched budget once more on seven boxes of aquamarine and burnt orange glass tiles tiles, every tile unique. Next I'm working on how to mesh these two tile colors into a relaxing scheme along with a couple of embedded Motawi tiles we've brought back from the Ann Arbor pottery works. A few more design iterations and peace should return to our evenings.
That's about all that's arrived to-date. Washer, dryer, dishwasher and wine fridge all on order and pending delivery. More on those selections later. Whew! My part done. Where are the contractors?
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