After much wrangling and wringing of hands, we are go with the new house. We gave DiPrima Construction a massive check representing 10% down so they will now begin construction of our new house. The new house will be on Pascoli Place, a little more towards the middle of Melbourne. Karen is going to be about five minutes from work and I’ll save about 10 or 15 minutes off my drive in.
Karen has been working with vendors choose floors, plumbing fixtures, etc. Our biggest headache right now is counter tops. We had been working with Artisan Granite since they were recommended by our builder. We never could get hard prices out of the salesman but he knew what our allotment for counter tops was and assured us it would be plenty. Now we find out that he is either just a straight up liar or completely incompetent. We selected some slabs and got a quote from him that was three times our allotment. His labor amount just to cut the granite was above our allotment, never mind what granite we picked. So now we are shopping for a new kitchen counter contractor.
I’ll try to upload some floor plans and drawings later.