Over the weekend we went down to Bedrosians and spent a couple of hours looking over their natural stone and tile offerings. They have a large selection of travertine at a very reasonable price. We picked up a bunch of samples and started working out the details of each room. We'll probably end up using travertine for most of the tubs, showers, and floors.

Today we made another trip to Bedrosians and met Ernie there. He gave us some tips on how to select granite slabs. We picked up some more tile samples.

I met with Esmeraldo at the job site this morning, and we walked through the house discussing all of the items in his quote. He had some good ideas for the pony walls and the shower thresholds.

I introduced myself to Umberto this morning. His drywall installers from Alliance Drywall were there, putting sheetrock on the new kitchen soffit.

And they were taping joints and starting to add the rounded corners.


Later in the afternoon, we brought some of our tile samples to the house to see how they look with the natural lighting in the rooms.

The city utility workers were there with a huge circular saw to cut the asphalt and concrete in preparation for our sewer line. They'll be back in a couple of days to dig up the street.