Met with the cabinet guy tonight where we have finalized the cabinets in style and locations. When we mentioned the new counter top color he told us that that color was not as smooth as the Ubatuba we first selected. Sure enough, when we felt a larger sample of the Iberian Sunset it was a lot more pitted. He suggested Caledonia, a slightly darker color with a little more gray in it. Ok, this is it, we’re done. Great.
No, now everything is too light, let’s darken the cabinets some. So we change their color from Maple Spice to Cherry Spice, that’s the ticket. Well now the cabinet pulls need to go from satin nickel to rubbed bronze to match better. The light gray tile still works with that, right? Yeah, about as well, but I’m still angling for a slightly darker shade of gray.
With all this wrangling around we had now spent more than we did before we walked in. But in actuality, the price bump put us up just enough to get an extra $400 discount, bringing the total to a couple hundred less than when we started.
When we got home and started looking at the price list we noticed that the new rubbed bronze draw pulls were $9.12 a piece!! Man, when we picked out some pulls previously they were like $1.97. With 35 pulls we are spending over $300 on them total. But, because if we took the expensive ones off the list to save that princely sum, it would drop us back below the discount threshold, we would lose the $400 savings. This meant in essence those $9 pulls were really saving us $3 each. Wait, the savings is more like $5 because then we have to spend $2 more to buy handles…