Par for the Course

M called the contractor about replacing the carpeting with hardwood. We also have a laundry list of small things, we're not sure if he would want to tackle those or not but since he built the house, maybe he'll take care of them since he most likely did them in the first place. We were surprised because the contractor called M back only ten minutes after he left the message and we scheduled him to come over yesterday late afternoon because that was a day that M could sneak out a little early from work. Unfortunately, he called M around the time he was due to show up and said that he was pouring foundation at another house and couldn't leave so the new plan is for him to come over on Saturday....we have heard this is how it would go.

Our list includes:

Hardwood placement in upstairs hallway, baby's room, and office
Basement and patio door have some water leaking around frames
Pipe downstairs with some leaking
Replace pipe junction near furnace (occasionally we smell natural gas although National Grid couldn't detect it)
I would like to have him realign our bedroom door and the office door, but M thinks it's due to the house shifting. Basically our bedroom door only truly closes in the summer/early fall, the office door is never aligned properly, you have to lift the door for it to catch in the frame.

We think we've chosen a color for the office, it's called Sante Fe Pottery and it's a warm light red color. Blue was kind of boring and we felt like we could kick it up a notch because we are planning to paint the area between the chair rails white, we also decided to skip a second color on top of the white stripe.