So I got a call today from Jeff at Bay West that was a little surprising. It seems that they built part of our house a little "wrong". The half-bathroom on the main floor is more like a 4/10ths bathroom! Apparently the framer made an error when framing the bathroom and framed on the inside of his mark rather than the outside. The net result is that our bathroom is roughly six inches narrower than it should be. Normally that might not be considered a big deal, but it affected the size of our bathroom counter top, and now our round stainless-steel sink won't fit! I was quite surprised when I heard this - it's one thing to have issues with the quality of a paint job in a room, but now we find out our bathroom isn't built to match the blueprints? Yikes.

We have three options: we can use the round sink and mount the taps to the right or left, switch to an oval sink and put the taps in their normal place, or have Bay West rip out the entire wall and correct the mistake. The first two options are easy outs for Bay West - it doesn't cost them anything extra to switch the sinks. The last option is more expensive for them, but it's more of a pain for us - and the wall will never be quite the same. What to do...

We're leaning towards going with the oval sink so the taps can be mounted properly, but I'm reluctant to simply accept such a significant error on the house so easily. I think there may be a solution that makes both Bay West and us happy...we'll see what they say when I suggest it. :-)