4th Mensiversary

Can't believe it's been 4 months already!
Most of the major jobs are done including demolition, new soffit, gypsum boarded, electrical wirings, plumbing and rough-ins, flooring, kitchen cabinets installation, tiling, interior painting, exterior painting. So what's left? well, many many more small decisions, but no less critical, at least in the aesthetic sense, that I need to make...

Believe it or not, I haven't decided on the handles. Actually it's the color that I haven't decided on. Yes, it's color again. This time is silver toned or black! Why is this so difficult? It's because I want to tie in with the door knobs. And somehow I can't find nice looking, reasonably priced black door knobs. So the search is still on.
Lighting is also another big issue. Dining room light, bedroom lights, hallway lights...

And then the house numbers. I removed the original lit up number box so as to replace with numbers of a nice font. I looked up the original Eichler numbers, but not sure that I like the stamp like characters with the black background. Besides they are actually rather small. I am leaning towards these metal numbers from a collection of rather well known fonts. I love the 9 from Ribbon and love it's dramatic thin and deep look in black anodized. The other selection is Avant Garde Medium and I love the 4 which has a sailboat look with equal distance in the two hanging stems; however, I'll have to use Medium as they don't have the regular width. Another issue is the size. I really want to have a height of 6", but because the siding I have has a <4" flat surface in between grooves, the 6" Ribbon with a width of 4" spills outside of the grooves. Here are pictures of the prototypes I made:

6" Ribbon spilling over onto the surrounding grooves which will then run into the next number.

4" Avant Garde Medium looks a bit thick to me

I will definitely pick one of them. Check out this site: http://www.westonletters.com/?catID=23&file=HN-Styles.htm. What do you like? Please vote on them.


Here are the remaining items that I have to do:

• pick out house numbers
• pick out handles
• pick out door knobs
• pick out lights

Here are the other items to be done by the contractors:

• install faucets
• install toilets
• install bathroom cabinets
• install kitchen appliances