Wednesday, August 31
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Hot and sunny, but back into that range that is a little too hot. It still cooled off nicely at night.
I am still on the fence about the exterior doors we want for the front entry and at the sun room (opens onto a deck).
The contractor has done his job, and found us good prospective doors, but I am now unclear about the end appearance.
When my husband and I were in the city looking for bathroom fixtures, we browsed doors. We saw one that was very close to what we want. It is fiberglass, but the way it was coated it looked EXACTLY like wood. I want something very much like that, because I want to keep the house looking as much as the original doors as possible.
The doors that the contractor want us to choose from come from a reputable company, and he can get us a discount with them.
The door we liked, we THOUGHT was coming already finished, and would also look like wood.
The more I talk to the contractor, the more it sounds like the doors will have a wood grain TEXTURE, and we will have to finish it ourselves. Why would that be our job?
Then, won't it look like PAINTED WOOD, not like a lovely stained wood finish? I want something that looks like an oak door, not painted wood.
The contractor keeps saying that the raised grain will make it look like wood when it's painted (and he keep saying painted), so won't it look like painted wood? He showed me a door that he installed, and it did not look like what I want. It looks like painted wood.
Like, if I got a sheet of plastic with a raised wood grain finish, and painted it, it would look like painted wood, not wood grain.
This is starting to drive me crazy because the contractor keeps saying it will "look like wood", but it is not clear to me if it will look LIKE WOOD, or PAINTED WOOD.
I have gently said (because it is no one's fault, it is just my need to be absolutely sure we are getting what we want) to NOT order doors now.
If I can't see something in person that shows that this door will look like stained wood grain the way the other door did that we saw in person, then I don't want it.
For some reason, the contractor says the door we saw, is not going to work. Says we can't get the right insert, though my husband says it could be made to work. Just not as easy.
Now I have likely become "the difficult client". Sigh.
So, not only am I insane and confused, but also difficult.
I shouldn't care, but I do.
I still want the right doors. I am not paying THAT MUCH MONEY for doors that aren't going to look like they belong on a house this old.
Then he went over the best way for the sink/vanity to sit, and the best place for the vanity lights, and that all worked for me and I made sure to say it was great, so that I WOULDN'T BE DIFFICULT.
ANYHOW.
I texted Sister S, and she says she is feeling a lot better this week, which is a relief.
I went to see River, and it was our lesson today. Too hot to ride, so we focused entirely on groundwork, and breaking down the elements in a lead line class coming up.
For some reason, I no longer know how to do anything, and it felt like nothing I was doing with my body was right anymore. So that was frustrating. River did great.
We do have our homework cut out for us.
Talked to the Mom of another rider, and that was good. She loves animals too, so we talked about cats and goats. Finally, I feel like I am not wrong the whole conversation.
I also asked her opinion about what she thought would work for "paint night", if I do one as a fundraiser for the horse rescue R works with. She seemed interested in mandelas. R seemed to lean towards that too, so maybe that is what we do.
The nice thing about doing mandelas, is that you could do several paint nights about those, and each time people could still come home with something different depending on what colors they used.
I came home, and let everyone out for a while. So far it looks like the horse waterer is working properly after my Sweetie pulled the pebble out of it.
Today I learned The Capuchin monkey and the cappuccino style of coffee are both named after the shade of brown used in the habits of the Franciscan friars of Minor Capuchin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Friars_Minor_Capuchin
Hot and sunny, but back into that range that is a little too hot. It still cooled off nicely at night.
I am still on the fence about the exterior doors we want for the front entry and at the sun room (opens onto a deck).
The contractor has done his job, and found us good prospective doors, but I am now unclear about the end appearance.
When my husband and I were in the city looking for bathroom fixtures, we browsed doors. We saw one that was very close to what we want. It is fiberglass, but the way it was coated it looked EXACTLY like wood. I want something very much like that, because I want to keep the house looking as much as the original doors as possible.
The doors that the contractor want us to choose from come from a reputable company, and he can get us a discount with them.
The door we liked, we THOUGHT was coming already finished, and would also look like wood.
The more I talk to the contractor, the more it sounds like the doors will have a wood grain TEXTURE, and we will have to finish it ourselves. Why would that be our job?
Then, won't it look like PAINTED WOOD, not like a lovely stained wood finish? I want something that looks like an oak door, not painted wood.
The contractor keeps saying that the raised grain will make it look like wood when it's painted (and he keep saying painted), so won't it look like painted wood? He showed me a door that he installed, and it did not look like what I want. It looks like painted wood.
Like, if I got a sheet of plastic with a raised wood grain finish, and painted it, it would look like painted wood, not wood grain.
This is starting to drive me crazy because the contractor keeps saying it will "look like wood", but it is not clear to me if it will look LIKE WOOD, or PAINTED WOOD.
I have gently said (because it is no one's fault, it is just my need to be absolutely sure we are getting what we want) to NOT order doors now.
If I can't see something in person that shows that this door will look like stained wood grain the way the other door did that we saw in person, then I don't want it.
For some reason, the contractor says the door we saw, is not going to work. Says we can't get the right insert, though my husband says it could be made to work. Just not as easy.
Now I have likely become "the difficult client". Sigh.
So, not only am I insane and confused, but also difficult.
I shouldn't care, but I do.
I still want the right doors. I am not paying THAT MUCH MONEY for doors that aren't going to look like they belong on a house this old.
Then he went over the best way for the sink/vanity to sit, and the best place for the vanity lights, and that all worked for me and I made sure to say it was great, so that I WOULDN'T BE DIFFICULT.
ANYHOW.
I texted Sister S, and she says she is feeling a lot better this week, which is a relief.
I went to see River, and it was our lesson today. Too hot to ride, so we focused entirely on groundwork, and breaking down the elements in a lead line class coming up.
For some reason, I no longer know how to do anything, and it felt like nothing I was doing with my body was right anymore. So that was frustrating. River did great.
We do have our homework cut out for us.
Talked to the Mom of another rider, and that was good. She loves animals too, so we talked about cats and goats. Finally, I feel like I am not wrong the whole conversation.
I also asked her opinion about what she thought would work for "paint night", if I do one as a fundraiser for the horse rescue R works with. She seemed interested in mandelas. R seemed to lean towards that too, so maybe that is what we do.
The nice thing about doing mandelas, is that you could do several paint nights about those, and each time people could still come home with something different depending on what colors they used.
I came home, and let everyone out for a while. So far it looks like the horse waterer is working properly after my Sweetie pulled the pebble out of it.
Today I learned The Capuchin monkey and the cappuccino style of coffee are both named after the shade of brown used in the habits of the Franciscan friars of Minor Capuchin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Friars_Minor_Capuchin
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Date: 2022-09-02 03:42 am (UTC)I wanted a specific front door, too, that was not available at Home Depot. A door store made it and stuck nine little pieces of Wright's luxfer glass in a square pattern. Your contractor should know all kinds of door people. He sounds difficult.
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Date: 2022-09-02 05:08 am (UTC)We were literally standing in front of a door with the right look, and a few days ago, the contractor was really working hard to convince me to buy a door through "his guy".
I wanted to see samples of the finish for those doors to see if they would "look like wood", and he brought the samples, and they do not look like wood. They look like painted wood. You know what I mean by that? There will be a grain texture, but it will be whatever color of paint you finish it as.
The door we looked at is indistinguishable from stained oak, and is still fiberglass.
Yes, the doors that this guy wanted us to buy are somewhat customizable, but will not have the look of wood that I had hoped for.
Yesterday, I put my foot down until I could see samples. Today I saw samples.
I told the contractor that since I did not see what I had hoped to see, I am going to find out more about the door we saw, to see if it is at all possible to get one made to fit our doorways.
He all of a sudden made it sound like he was behind me all the way, and that he can get us a discount at that store too. Why the big shift?
I get that originally, he was hoping we would make life simple for him and order the door from the same place he was getting the windows, but so what? We don't have to buy doors where he tells us to buy doors.
I have to wonder at times, if contractors get kickbacks from some places for pushing those products. That really seems like a conflict of interests.
Overall this contractor hasn't been difficult, but he sure has been with the exterior door issue, and I don't know why.
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Date: 2022-09-02 06:43 am (UTC)My old friend wanted her main bathroom renovated in monochromatic tones, which meant several different shades of white: pure white, bone, off-white, pale sand, et cetera. Her contractor told her it wasn't possible and that it would be a mistake. She pressed the point. The walls were painted cream with sand tiles, the fixtures were pure white, the floor was a checkerboard of white and bone, and even the ceiling fixture was milk-glass. It turned out great and the contractor told her later that he'd envisioned it like that all along.
I hope you get the door you want. We replaced our door, which was not original to the house. It had an orange-slice window and was fake painted wood, kind of a loud and ugly version of British Racing Green.
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Date: 2022-09-02 11:01 pm (UTC)I don't think I am being too difficult about the door. After all, this will be the door we look at for the rest of our time at this house. it will be expensive.
I did see what I wanted right in front of me at that one store, so what we want IS out there, we just have to do some digging around to see if we can get one in the right size.
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Date: 2022-09-13 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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