Not much in a week.

The outside of the house if almost finished. We just need a garage door, but now we are moving on to interior work.

The framing inspection happened yesterday and the inspector didn't like how large of a span we had in the kitchen. So our contractor went back to the drawing board and came up with a plan that they will present to the inspector tomorrow. The plan is to add a beam that extends the wall between the kitchen and dining room all the way to the back of the house. This will split the joists in the kitchen from a 15ft. span to about 11ft and 4ft spans. Then they will double all the 11ft joists. One issue is that the electrical work has all been finished in this area so I hope they don't need to mess with it. Our contractor will be doing all of this with no extra cost to us since there was always a plan to add a beam in the kitchen anyway.

We also had a bit of a scare when the plumber told us that there was no mention of a heater in the mudroom. The contract clearly does not say that there is heat in the mudroom, but we discussed having heat in there with our contractor before we signed the contract. We found out today that they will be adding the heat in the mudroom with a change order. We are relieved because we were starting to feel like everything that we did was costing too much more money.

So, with all that there is not too much to show on the blog, but I thought I'd post some links to some of the appliances and accessories that we have chosen.

Refrigerator: Maytag or GE
Range: Maytag or GE
Microwave: Maytag or GE
Dishwasher: Bosch, Maytag or GE

Faucet:Price Pfister or Moen