After a day off, work proceeded on Monday bright and early. They finished off the plastering —which isn't as obvious in the picture below but it looks a LOT better than it did before — but, as you can probably guess already, that wasn't the most exciting thing that happened.
The floor tiles went in today! Well, most of them, anyway. As you can see in the photo below, they ran out of the little decor tiles, which are a dark cranberry color with a crackled-glass finish. Jason is mostly glad that this part of the project is done because it means I will no longer be dragging him all over town in the quest for the perfect decor tiles. The overall pattern was suggested by our contractor, and we're already loving it.
Overnight they had to bar the room against the cats (and us) while leaving it open for the air to circulate, so they arranged this makeshift barricade:
Not too concerned about that, because the door is getting replaced too: the bottom corner is torn up from years of scraping against the marble threshold (and more recently, cats trying to claw it open because the PEOPLE keep trying to use the bathroom ALL BY THEMSELVES without the CATS, which is clearly both dangerous and criminal).Our small team of contractors have been pretty responsive to requests like "please don't leave the doors wide open, because of the cats" and done a pretty good job of keeping the place clean, but we have noticed a certain "dysfunctional family" atmosphere in their working relationship. Jason in particular usually comes home from work when they're finishing up the work day and yelling at each other with no small vigor, generally about leaving on time. In the mornings I've been treated to our lead contractor dressing his crew down for the things they did wrong the day before. We've since been informed that ALL contractors seem to work this way, which is a bit reassuring, and so far any shortfalls have been made up for in spades. We have no complaints so far!
Tomorrow: finishing the floor, starting in on the walls.
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