Good luck to you. At this point you should still take your contract to an atty for review. If you're going to continue with your build you need to understand what the scope of your contract includes, including timeline issues. If you're going to bail on this build, you also should find out what your legal obligation is re this contract. Understand that obtaining financing, even if you have enough liquid assets to build the whole house without financing, is a tough business right now. You should be prepared to look at more than one bank/credit union/ investment brokerage. In the end we ended up financing our new build through an arm of our investment brokerage. After all the hoops etc it just made more sense for us. And, our land, which we owned free and clear, did not count as part of our down payment, and the appraisal for new construction didn't come up to the cost of our build. So in the end we'll have 40% into our build. We could have compromised on a lot of things we wanted, or we could have bought existing, and gotten an 80% mortgage. Point is you need to be persistent in getting financing, and you need to have an attorney review your contract.

Everything is beautiful! We have eased edge counters in 2 of our bathrooms, and the corners are squared off as well. I do think it's slightly odd that a few of your corners are different, but I don't think it's a big deal and maybe they had a reason for those corners to be different? You will probably be the only one to notice going forward. Sounds like you will be coming home to a finished kitchen! Congrats!

Bumblebeez, I AM very lucky, and I say that every single day. I bought this house and yard looking VERY different in Dec. 1986. In all that time, the only time it came close to my house is the '200 year flood' in October 1996. But my house stayed high and dry, despite the road/bridge over the river washing out and the street being closed for 10 days while it was reconstructed. I'm so close to everything I need, stores, airport, you-name-it, but I look out back and feel like I'm on vacation every day.

I just had a chair with similar carving reupholstered - it is actually the second time I had it reupholstered because I bought it and had it immediately reupholstered and just had it redone. I am fairly certain my chair is from the 1920's because my channel quilting seems to have more of an Art Deco influence although the chair itself is not really Art Deco. It definitely is worth reupholstering and you can have fun with it. The first time I did a very traditional velvet but most recently I opted for a pattern on the advice of my designer. My friend had an old carved wing chair and also just had her chair done - again in a non-traditional material. I had the wood spiffed up a bit with a subtle touch of gilding. The chair itself isn't a valuable antique but just a decorative comfortable chair so I wasn't worried about preserving "authenticity". I don't have a better picture of the chair at the moment. The sofa is new but was a custom done by the same shop that reupholstered the chair based on an inspiration Art Deco sofa - I showed them the picture and they replicated it. I am still in the final stages so everything but the sofa and chair are being replaced and of course I am still hunting for a suitable rug - preferably Chinese Deco :-) My friend's reupholstery of a classic wing chair which was probably from the 1920's. She bought the original green chair from the Salvation Army in the late 1970s.