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Cabinets are in!<\/p>\n
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That's going to be the world's biggest kitchen island*<\/sup>. Something like nine feet long, IIRC. It's supposed to get a single piece of granite, basically 9' x 4', but with a slight curve sticking out on the side facing us and a cut-out in the middle for the stove-top.<\/p>\n We happened to be there at the time the granite people showed up with the finished countertops. We peeked in the truck and noticed that there were no pieces with curves. About this, we inquired. \"We were told to cut it straight\", was the reply. By whom, we inquired. \"By <the builder's foreman>\", was the reply. The order form for the granite mentioned the curve. The house plans show the curve. But, the builder's foreman decided we wanted no curve. And so... we get no curve.<\/p>\n We were also there while they were drilling the well. Loud! big drilling trucks rumbling away.<\/p>\n \n That's a bunch of crushed stone and cement, sprayed around the trees and ground, after they left. I guess they line the well hole with cement and tubing. I wonder how that gets cleaned up.<\/p>\n The builder also cleared out all the shrubs and brush that was growing between the big trees in the front of our lot. Now it's going to get seeded for grass. Which means I have a giant lawn to mow. We didn't ask for that.<\/p>\n On the positive side, we had three house showings this weekend, after three weeks without any. No buyers, but interest is better than no interest. Plus our neighbor's house finally sold: after 14 months on the market, a $20K price reduction, and $8K in kitchen upgrades last month. Whew. Nice to have that off the market, it was making our house look expensive! <\/p>\n * - This claim is unverified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cabinets are in! iPhone That's going to be the world's biggest kitchen island*. Something like nine feet long, IIRC. It's supposed to get a single piece of granite, basically 9' x 4', but with a slight curve sticking out on the side facing us and a cut-out in the middle for the stove-top. We happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121001-103233-500x288.jpg\")
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