Tile Selection - finalized! (maybe)

Sunday March 9, 2008

We ran around like usual on the weekend...Sunday was scheduled to meet up with the Builder at the Tile Store to buy the tiles for the house. He's really pushing things like they are just about ready to tile (which they aren't) but I am sure it's only to save face at this point.

We go through the tiles & it ends up that we had to change some of them out. I was a bit irritated by the process because the builder is a bull but he can't really express himself. He laughed at one of my selections and made comments like it was a poor choice but he can't express why. I think he's just being rude when really it eventually comes out that there is a valid reason - such as the pattern I want them laid requires a lot of cutting and this particular tile may not cut well. This I can understand. He also tends to think that unless you have a lot of money, you have no class. We happen to apparently be in the no-class category since he makes comments all the time about it.

Today's gem was that 'he sends his sophisticated clients to XYZ tile store' but clients like us he sends to the Tile Store we were at.

I've learned to roll my eyes internally and look at him sideways while insisting on what I want, and I know that some of his comments stem from nothing but laziness. The others are just plain rude.

Otherwise, he did make some suggestions on how to get the same look on less money - not phrased very well, but it's ok, it's all in the interest of saving money. We also picked our banister & stair pickets in like 5 minutes in the parking lot. Had lunch at Wendy's next door to wrap our heads around the 'new' tile list and then back to the tile store to review the choices & swap out the samples.

I have to look at them for a couple of days then we'll go back with the builder and order them all up. After that we went to Lowes (yet again!) and we spent some time looking at carpet for Elmsdale basement...after that we were really tired but wanted to see the progress of the drywall at the house Elmsdale so we stopped of there for a few minutes.