Vanity, Thy Name Is...?

I went by the house yesterday afternoon to drop off some checks and go over a few details with Rob. I found him upstairs helping John install the vanity in the bathroom. Here's John looking for a stud [insert joke here]. Those weird swirls on the wall are the light coming in from the solatube overhead. They haven't put the interior dome on yet, but once they do the light will be more diffuse.
Rob said they wanted to get the vanity and the back door installed before they had to leave for the day, so I left them to it while I checked out the rest of the house. The tile guys had grouted all the white subway tile in the master bath, but they are waiting until the vanity, countertop, and tub deck are all installed to do the glass accent tile around the perimeter of the room. If there's enough left, they'll also put it in the recessed shelf in the shower. If not, they'll use some of the leftover green slate from the floor. Either way, it will look cool.
The vanity has been installed in the master bath, but since the painters were prepping the house to paint it over the weekend, everything was covered up.
Similarly, all the lower cabinets in the kitchen have been covered with cardboard. They also taped photos of our kitchen appliances on the walls to show where they go. Seems kind if obvious to me, but maybe that's just because I helped design the layout.
So, here are our lovely cardboard cabinets! Don't they look lovely with the plywood back door?
The vanity is in -- although they still have to make some adjustments to the door and drawers.
The back door went in pretty quickly with John working from the outside and Rob on the inside. I think this door is going to look really nice, especially once the stucco and back porch are finished.
Once they were done, John packed up and headed home and I discussed some unresolved issues with Rob. I didn't really like the way the windows in the living room looked with the trim cut to fit inside the arches. Our old windows were smaller and set a little lower, so the trim had fit nicely within the arch, even though it was just as wide. I asked Rob if we could use smaller trim on these windows so it didn't need to be cut down so much at the top. At first, I don't think he saw what the big deal was, but once he pulled the trim off the other window, he agreed that it looked much better even without the trim.
As for the stain colors, Josh had stopped by the house on the way to work and suggested they just ask the painters (who will also be staining the doors and windows) to match the color on the old doors, since they probably know how to do that. He later called and told me that Rob said that should be no problem. So of course I had to give Rob a hard time for not coming up with that suggestion on his own, since that would have saved all of us a lot of time and trouble. Josh also had a good suggestion for how to make the tub filler work, which Rob also thought would work just fine and look good. We also discussed paint colors, moulding for the beadboard wainscoting in the upstairs bathroom, cabinet and door hardware, and the linen closets.

Sure enough, Rob gave me some new homework: designing the shelving configuration for our three linen closets. That should be a lot easier than some of our previous assignments, but since our house did not have any linen closets before, we don't necessarily have a good sense of how to make the best use of the space. I told Rob that we were planning to take some friends through the house this afternoon, so he warned me that the painters and tile crew were planning to do some work over the weekend and that Justin would be there to supervise. Hopefully they'll be done for the day by the time we get there.

On the way out, I noticed the painters were also prepping the exterior of the house so they could paint the eaves. They are very thorough!