Just had a big hole dug in my front yard

[Iplayfarmer]

We've made a little more progress. My wife is painting. She's taking it one day at a time and getting better at it every day. I've been doing finish electrical on rooms she's done with.

Now we have to decide on a baseboard trim color. We're going with the rubber baseboard because we have had damp floors in the past in the basement. Our area is notorius for sub water. I had the sheetrock guy leave a 1" gap at the bottom of the floor, and I used pressure treated boards wherever I could for the base plates of the wall framing. Hopefully with the rubber baseboard we'll have no long term ill effects if we get more moisture. The problem is that we only have a few choices in color of the baseboard.We've narrowed it down to the two colors in the attached pictures. One is "Snow" colored, and the other is "Fawn" colored.

I'm taking a poll. Which baseboard color do you like, snow or fawn? Why?

The wall in the pictures is painted the color it will be, and the painted trim (doors/windows) will all be white like the door in the pictures.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Fawn because it doesn't show vacuum cleaner whacks and dust bunnies as much.

 

[dcyrilc]

To me, the white makes the room look brighter.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

After dinking around with a bunch of cosmetic stuff for a year and a half now (stained concrete floor problems, painting, cabinets for the sink, etc., we're finally going through our final inspections.

The electrical inspector came out this morning and told us that we have to change all of our outlets to tamper resistant ones. She looked at all of those outlets 3 times over the past few years while we've had various rough-in inspections,etc. and hasn't said a thing about it. There are a few other little things like a lock on one of the breakers, and a staple that I somehow missed, but those are things I can easily do.


The plumbing inspector will come by later today. Here's hoping he doesn't have any concerns.

 

[zing]

Wow, that is a lot of work, but it seems to have come out really nice. Did you get the salon up and running already or is that waiting for the final inspection?

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Wow, that is a lot of work, but it seems to have come out really nice. Did you get the salon up and running already or is that waiting for the final inspection?

Technically we are waiting for the final inspection. My wife has been cutting hair for friends and family down there and really likes it. We'll have an official grand opening after the final inspection.