Stupid Tax

So we (read, I) decided that the windows in the master bedroom were just a little bit too close together.

If we get a king bed in the future (and we will) and we go with a wider headboard there would be a fair bit of space between the window and the wall and very little (just a few inches) between the window and the bed.    I keep thinking that it'd be too close.   In reality, it'd probably be fine.  But my OCD has somehow chosen this little issue to lock onto and I'd rather just move them now and make sure that everything will be spaced well enough than to leave it alone and not like it later.

The bad news is that the framing crew is going to charge $150 to re-frame them.  Since they put them exactly (to the inch) where I told them too the first time... having to pay to move them is just "stupid tax".  It's money I have to pay for the privilege of walking through life being obliviously idiotic.   :(  

But if $400 (this $150 + $250 for the garage door)  is the extent of our unexpected expenses, I'm going to be pretty satisfied with that.

However, it looks like that number might go a bit higher because we're probably going so spend a bit of money upgrading our faucets as well.   I didn't think about that when I was doing any of the budgeting, so hopefully we keep the costs on that pretty low.   We're actually on a pretty tight budget  here, we're getting a lot of things like kitchen cabinets, wood flooring and stairs, etc... and in doing that, we've spent pretty much everything we're willing to spend.   So even looking at a few $100 on unbudgeted expenses or upgrades is a big deal at this point.

In happier news, I wrote about all of our floorplan changes a few days ago and there were a few of them I wasn't quite sure I liked, but after walking through the house a few more times... I think I like pretty much all of them.  I'm really starting to dig the stairs in particular.   The one thing I'm not sure I love is the master bathroom.  Theresa doesn't really like it much either.  I like most of it, I'm just not crazy about the shower.  I don't like that it shares a wall with the bedroom, and it might not have enough room or wallspace to add a 2nd shower head.  It looked like it would work on paper, but now that we see it framed... we're not really sure.    So hopefully the plumber, or the builder, or someone can figure out a way to make it all work.

I have to walk through sometime this week with the electrician and low voltage contractors to pick the locations of all of the outlets and cable/data drops.   I don't know where I want all of these things, and I probably won't know until I've lived there for a month!  You have to do a lot of guessing on decisions like this when you build a house!