Today is the big day of our walk through! We spent a few hours at the house on Sunday, walking around and looking at the house, and it was a mixed experience.

On one hand, it's really exciting to see the carpet installed, the walls painted (mostly) and even some of our appliances waiting to be installed! The house is really coming together, and we're immensely pleased with the decisions we made on the colours and interior style. The hard wood flooring looks beautiful and was worth the cost. The installation of the hard wood floor and lino was nicely done, and the house is nice and warm on a day that was -32 Celsius. Some of the things we paid extra for when going with Bay West (they were more expensive than other builders) were the thicker walls, better structural support, etc. The home feels wonderfully solid!

On the other hand, it was frustrating to see how far they still have to go. The painters, to put it bluntly, are sloppy. They have zero attention to detail, and we coated the walls with nearly a hundred sticky notes on spots that they missed or badly done touch-ups. Ashley's father was a painter for 25 years, so he knows what details to look for. Some of the workmanship inside our house is downright horrible. Our mantle is uneven and badly installed. The island counter-top is nothing like the one in the show home - I'll post pictures tomorrow, but suffice it to say that the island counter-top on the show home looks beautiful, with smooth angles, while ours looks like the carpenter who cut it had an seizure while doing so.

We'll see how things go tomorrow, but I'm a little worried about not seeing eye to eye with the Bay West person assigned to do our walk through when it comes to the quality of workmanship. Let's hope things go well!