My friend put it in a condo remodel and it looks wonderful. The negative comments have been on the high shine. If you have it in an area with lots of sunlight its going to show every speck of dust etc, but that isn't a product issue as much as a design issue. Its about the best looking 'fake' wood product on the market and think you'll be pretty happy with it. Laminate like any flooring people sometimes have expectations set just a tad too high.

The work not yet completed... there is no option for this We ordered a Kemper Kitchen from Metropolitan. This is the worst Kitchen company. Compared to other places that we designed the same Kitchen this was one of the most expensive but since they promised a 4 weeks turn around for semi-custom all wood cabinets we went with them. It is almost 6 months now and they have not yet resolved the issues. The issues included: warped pantry door, misplaced drawers, doors and racks that do not open or close well, all the doors are random sizes and some of the doors do not even open without hitting the microwave (there is already damage to the door!), unfinshed areas where the glass was cut and placed, etc. In some areas the distance between the two cabinets is less than 4 mm which does not allow the door to open. Susan the sales person from Kemper in response to the random sizes of the doors and drawers says "people ususally do not care how their kitchen looks like". And then she claims "average people in their life time only design 1 and 1/2 kitchens so they don't know better". Well we know better and we do care and you should not be in a business that you don't care about the quality of the work that you provide. And then Jim, the person Kemper sends to correct issues! He does not respect the customers time, he started a fight with my contractor that I almost called the police on him. While Ron the designer tried to work with Kemper and get the problems resolved, he too kept saying "I am just the middle man". Jim claimed that the contractor and the designer were wrong for not putting spacer in between every cabinet! Ron correctly says that a spacer in between all cabinets will provide ugly seams and lines everywhere. Ron should not be selling a product that is so full of problems. Instead of 4 weeks we are now almost 6 month into this with no resolution about the major issues with this kitchen. Will be contacting attorney general's office and BBB as well as the credit card company. The problem is that with this kitchen if we want to redo it now the quartz and all the appliances are in place and it will cost double the cost of the kitchen itself to get another kitchen put in. Please think twice and do not go to Metropolitan and do not get a Kemper Kitchen from any other dealer. I hope I can add photos to this to show you how bad they are with their product.

I feel your pain because I'm fresh off the plan phase and have just had shotcrete. Your pool is similar in shape and close to the same size as mine. I had issues about the narrowness too. I kept stretching and curving to get more width without having to move it to another part of the yard where I have more room, but we'd lose the asthetics of the view. I left it alone and I do still wonder about the narrowness but there's no going back and I'm sure it will all work out. I can tell you that I was just at a pool party where the pool was more narrow and smaller than yours and mine and it didn't seem to phase the kids at all. They seemed to have plenty of room. However, we are talking about ten to fifteen, ten year-olds. On another note, we have a baja/ wetdeck as well. And something you may want to consider, (if you haven't already) are the placement, the size and amt. of steps into the pool which I hadn't even thought of with mine until today when I stepped down into my pool(granted there is no water yet)but our depth is 3.5' off the shelf and even with 3 steps to the bottom, it's still a good-sized step down... sort of a surprise drop, if you're not aware. Now, because you're struggling with the depth thing...if yo choose a 3' to 3.5' depth instead of 4' this may allow you a little more peace of mind as far as the safety issues go for your small child/children. You don't know me from Adam, and I really am not a doomsdayer, but I'd like to share with you what happened to me and maybe it will help in your decission. My son (who is alive and well) was 4 and about 43" and in a 3.5' pool with me right next to him ... looking at him no less... I was not able to see that the water was just covering his nose. I couldn't see any line of demarkation that would indicate to me that he was sucking in the water. My clue that something was wrong was that I realized he was not talking or moving around. And even though he had been taught to hold his breath and had some lessons he just panicked. I finally realized what was happening and got him out in time, but it was a horrific scare. That just reminded me... better to be safe than sorry especially w/kids. Drowning is a such a silent killer and there's no going back. A friend of mine lost her 3 yr old little girl to a drowning accident in her own pool. I don't know if this is too much on a pool info site, but if this helps save you and anyone else from that kind of tragedy, then it's worth the possible discomfort of my opinion. Okay, that's all I'll say about that. Anyway, it will all turn out; right??? Good Luck

Check Garrison. We put something else in our new place because the flooring we wanted(we wanted the same) was discontinued..new are by Armstrong(I think..not sure), but the veneer layer is/was twice as thick in Garrison's flooring. Ours is also mildly distressed. Not sure whether the picture will be helpful because even though ours is also mid range brown, it definitely has some red in it-I love it madly, but not everyone does( in their homes. Guests seem to love it too lol) Ours is also quite soft, since we chose walnut. I'm okay with few imperfections and mini scratches here and there, but again, lots of people aren't. I'm okay to the point I put in walnut again in the new place:) We don't abuse it too much, neither we baby it.