As for the trifecta part, it went this way:
1) Picked up the 6 cabinets for the master bath from the Kitchen and Bath Studio in PT. Cherry shaker style cabinets with medium stain and lacquer finish. Two 18' wide (21" deep) drawer units, two 30" wide sink bases (21" deep), a central drawer unit that is 6" taller and deeper (24"), and a linen closet (24" wide, 84" high), all with toe kicks. Since these are a manageable lot, I think we'll install them first as a test for the bigger assemblage of cabinets in the kitchen, pantry, and mudroom. The countertop will be an Italian banded travertine. We picked out the slab from Metagranite in Seattle, and Richerts in Sequim will do the cutting and installation hopefully towards the end of November.
2) They hid the hose. We'd earlier had a central vacuum system installed by A-B Vacuum of Puyallup (still can't pronounce this one). The did all the piping before drywall, then needed to return to install the cover plates, the vacuum unit, and hoses. These are quite cool—the hose retracts into the piping. We saw it at the Seattle and Denver home shows over the past few years, and the system was priced comparably with standard, haul the hose systems. Anyway, they'd had a cancellation on an install that day so they decided to come up. Three hours later, they were installing, testing and teaching us how to use the thing (simple).
3) The hardwood flooring arrived from Seattle. It was supposed to be here in the early afternoon, but they got buggered up with closure of the Hood Canal bridge for 90 minutes (testing). It was dark by the time they arrived, but we unloaded 1000 sq. ft (3000 linear ft) of red birch flooring. It is standard nail-down stock; 4" wide, 3/4" thick, tongue and groove. We stacked it up in three piles on the radiant flooring to dry out in the next week, prior to installation by Mills Interiors, Bainbridge Island (flooring and tile). We'll have the floor installed now, then sanded after all the door jambs and tile is installed. That should be months away at my pace of work. Hopefully, the installers will be more carefully than Classic Hardwoods of Sequim. They did the Christophers house in PT in June and managed to hit Pex tubing in four spots. I'll be watching carefully, like an old grandmother.Now that the garage is back in a usable condition, we'll start to move the kitchen cabinets (39 boxes) over from the rental property. All the appliances are already on site, so the garage is going to be filled up soon. I set up the chop saw and table saw in the pantry, which will become the new workshop for all the remaining trim work.
