Last night I faxed over a list of our issues, so we're waiting to hear back from Bay West on them. Some of them are what I mentioned last night (the plumbing and the heating errors), and some are assorted issues like Bay West contractors smoking in our house...



Then there's the cracked siding...



...and the cracked windows, creaking stairs, a leaking waterline in the basement, and a loose window pane in the deck door. A lot of relatively minor things that will no doubt be fixed before we take possession. Some of the things are a little harder to figure out, like this fireplace mantle:



We've been extremely selective about every aspect of our house, always opting for straight lines and a very minimalist look. And somehow we end up with this "pretty" Victorian-era bevelled thing over our fireplace! We selected some really nice stonework to go around the fireplace, but we were never offered an option for the mantle. I naively assumed that meant that we wouldn't have a mantle, but you know what they say about assumptions.

So now we wait to see what Bay West says about the issues we raised. More on this later, along with the thrilling story of our pantry door. Guess what the moral of that story is? I'll give you a hint: it has the words "extra" and "sheet" in it. :-)