I love the waterfall, but the "pool" beneath it ... I am not so happy. I already had it redone once. I feel the designer has let me down considerably, this being the biggest part. I specifically asked for lighter color tiles around the puddle... she did purchase some but not nearly enough, maybe 2 18X18 squares...and we'd talked about another color but that didn't happen... then she and I were putting them in and she barely wanted any. She had also forgotten to order the floor pebbles, so they were out of stock, so we went with some darker ones.
First round, there was no differentiation at all between the 'puddle' and the rest of the floor. The tile guys agreed, and they dug out pebbles that I marked and replaced them with lighter ones. That helped a little. The puddle does not look like a puddle to me -- and it was MY idea and MY design, originally so I feel we deviated a lot from that. I see what she is trying to do, she's thinking if we sell the house they will be less obvious and perhaps it won't prevent a sale. Chances are we'll be here 10 + years so I don't really care about that right now.
oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Can she still go back and fix it, or do you think it is something that can grow on you? I agree about not totally caring about future resale. You can't completely ignore that factor, but we did it for us to live in for a long time to come, the same as you did it for you. If we were thinking about resale, the floor tiles probably wouldn't be white. Truly, the white tiles are so easy to keep clean, but buyers may not believe that & be scared off)
She also forgot that I had asked for a spice rack, a tall narrow one by the stove that pulls out like a drawer and has all the spices on shelves. So now she is saying oh put them in a drawer, which really disappoints me. I cook a lot and wanted this one special feature.
now that's annoying. Not sure if this is what you mean or not. We have these, one on each side of the undernench oven. Not specifically for spices, but I use the one on the left for spices and the one on the right for oils & other cooking condiments.
But anyway, I have seen some pretty cool spice rack accessories made specifically to fit into drawers. I think that would be even better (provided you can afford to spare the drawer space. Have a look on pin interest, but maybe something like this?
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Our kitchen designer also made our bathroom cabinets and he stuffed up there. One part he fixed, the other I let go. It was supposed to be 3 drawers deep and it's only 2. Second issue, we ordered 40ml thick Quartz benchtops in both upstairs bathrooms and he only made them 20ml. He argued that if it was HIS bathroom, he would only have it 40ml. Well, guess what it wasn't his bathroom, so he had to remake it the benchtop, but we let the drawer issue go. It bothered me a lot at first, but I'm over it now.
I think that when you reno, there's always going to be something that doesn't turn out exactly how you envisioned. There's a few other things that didn't turn it exactly how I thought, but I've found over time they've stopped being an issue. I hope that is so for you as well, but if it is something that you just can't live with, I hope that they can fix it.
