Final inspection
Today - February 23 - exactly 12 weeks to the day after demolition, the chief building inspector for Somerville came by and signed off on the kitchen project. I happened to be home waiting for a delivery and I can tell you that the “final inspection” consists of about 120 seconds of glancing around the room, followed by a signature on the building permit, and that’s it. It does mean that we can take the ‘S’ placard out of the front window and consider the project officially complete.
Except, of course, for the tile. If you’ve read the blog all along you may remember all of the issues that we had with tile, first choosing it, then finding an installer at an acceptable price. We ended up taking the tile backsplash out of the original project, but we did go ahead and order the tile that we had chosen, just so we would have it when we found someone to install it. That’s the delivery that I was waiting for today - coincidentally it arrived precisely on the last day of the “renovation” part of the project.
And, we actually have a meeting with a tile installer tomorrow. If all goes well, we’ll be scheduling installation on that ASAP. Then the kitchen will truly be done the way we envisioned it back in August. Yes, we’ve been at this since August. June if you count the initial search for a designer.
Below are some photos taken tonight, after all the little details were completed and we’d been using the kitchen for a couple of weeks. Nothing too different from the last set. At some point I’ll put together some direct before/after comparisons from different angles and post them here or in Picasa.
Thanks everyone for reading and for all of your interest in our little project. I’ll probably post one or two more times when the tile is done and maybe some before/after pictures.
Main wall
Second wall
Main wall other way
Back corner with pantry cabinet and window seat
Coffee central
Sink corner
Prized sleeping spot
Populated dry bar cabinet
Open dry bar with lighting
It’s soooooo purty!