Details, Schmetails

Holy details, people! We are feeling slightly bombarded with a lot of small details that we need to make decisions about.  Things like which house numbers to put on the front of the house.  Seems like it should be easy-peasey, but it's not! I kind of like these, but I haven't seen them in real life, just on the internet.  It's kind of hard to choose house numbers based on the internet, but then again, they're just house numbers, so maybe it's no big deal?

These are good, too, and are supposed to fit with more of the craftsman style feel our home will have. 

 

But again, they're just house numbers, so maybe it really doesn't matter much.

And then there are the cabinetry details, which are really fun to pick out, but I'd never thought about some of these specifics before.  Things like do we want trim wrapping the end cabinets? Which drawers do we want the trim wrap on? What drawer/cabinet pulls do we like? A 3 or 4 drawer stack?

 

 

We like how the end of the island has trim around the edges.  Oh, and I like the drawer pulls, too.  But so many little decisions that will change the overall feel of the house!

At the same time we're trying to figure out those things, we realized that when we picked out this fireplace stone,

 We hadn't picked out a tile for the hearth area, to transition from the carpet to the fireplace.  We were envisioning something like this

Not exactly these colors, but a general style/layout similar to this

 then when we asked Marilyn she said it should be black.  Black? Maybe to go with the fireplace? So I looked up photos of that, and realized that we did NOT want black. It would look weird next to all the whites/creams above.  I emailed Marilyn and she realized she'd made a mistake, but if I hadn't thought through that small detail, it would have made a huge impact in a really ugly way!


And we still have to figure out the plumbing fixtures (next Monday), lights (very soon--need to schedule that appointment), millwork (we've got samples to look through) as well as a thousand other things.  Right at this moment, Eric is researching where we should put the tv in the family room--above the fireplace or not.  See? Tons of details.  So many that right now, I feel like we're drowning in the details, but I know all this hard work will be worth it in the end.