Detail Devils

Having the wealth of experience provided by building a single house, I figgered I had this sticks and bricks thing down to a science. Little did my neophyte rear end know that frustration has many faces.

We journey each day to the job site and examine details with a critical eye. This ritual resulted most recently in finding all door hardware installed (it was just the wrong finish). Licked that stamp and next day the door hardware was 100% changed to the right finish (oil rubbed bronze). Only problem, about half of the door handles were not the correct style/model???? Two of our french doors had one style on one door and the other style on the companion door? HOW COULD THE TRIM FOLKS NOT SEE THIS???? We shall now go back to the well for the third time and see if we can get the door hardware OK without strangling somebody?

Next issue: We paid high dollar to have a tile mural placed on the backsplash behind the cooktop granite counter (longhorn head, surrounded by tile with barbed wire look, and accented by three dimension five point stars on each side). After install, we immediately notice that two of the "barbed wire" tiles have a gray background while all the rest are an off-white. That revelation was immediately followed by the observation that one of the star tiles was glued on one tile OFF of its correct position. DAMMIT, ARE WE THE ONLY CRETINS WHO CAN SEE THESE THINGS? Pull the crap off and start over, NOW!

I reckon half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb at, but on the other hand, THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS~!