Planning Your Project

Material choices: Selecting the materials that will go into your project involves evaluating the aesthetics and functionality of a wide variety of products. You may choose to make all the selections yourself, have your architect choose, or work with your architect to make selections together. In any case, allow plenty of time, youÕre going to live with your choices. Here is a checklist of some of the choices you will have to make:

Bath:

• Tile (walls, floor, borders and inlays, bullnose and trim, grout)
• Decorative hardware (cabinet knobs, hinges)
• Bath accessories (towel bars, robe hooks)
• Medicine cabinet
• Mirror
• Cabinetry (vanity)
• Lighting at mirror
• Overhead lighting
• Other lighting
• Plumbing fixtures (toilet, lav, faucet, tub, whirlpool)
• Specialty (sauna, steam generator)
• Valves and fittings (shower valve, diverter, tub spout, hand shower)
• Wallcovering (paint, wallpaper, tile, stone, other)
• Flooring (tile, wood, stone, vinyl, other)
• Door hardware (knobs, levers, privacy bolts)

• Appliances (refrigerator, freezer, wine cooler, dishwasher, disposal, oven, cooktop, range, warming drawer, microwave, compactor)
• Plumbing fixtures (sink, bar sink, faucet, bar faucet, water filter, instant hot tap, coldwater tap for filtered water)
• Accessories (towel bar, pull out drawers, waste and recycling bins, wine rack, mixer flip-up, drawer organizers)
• Lighting (overhead, task, island, under cabinet, over table)
• Cabinetry (face frame or frameless, door type, painted or natural finish)
• Decorative hardware (knobs, pulls, hinges)

• Doors (swing, bifold, pocket, slide, style, material, paint or natural)
• Flooring (wood, concrete, vinyl, tile, stone, cork, carpet, inlays)
• Walls (painted, paneled, wainscoting)
• Ceilings (flat, tray, cove, vault, painted, beamed, paneled)
• Moldings (baseboard, base cap, chair rail, crown, picture, casing, other)
• Stairs (wood, carpet, handrail, balusters, newels)

• Windows (wood, clad, metal, casement, double hung, sliding, divided light, insulated glass, lowE, casing, screen, energy panel)
• Doors (swing, slide, wood, steel, fiberglass, glass, divided light, lowE, simulated divided light, hinges, paint or natural)
• Door Hardware (deadbolt, mortise set, three point lock, finish, knocker, mail slot, peep hole)
• Siding (clapboard, shingle, other wood, brick, stone, stucco, vinyl, fiber cement)
• Roofing (fiberglass shingle, architectural shingle, slate, copper, wood, tile, rubber)
• Foundation (concrete, block, stone, brick, piers, parged, stone or brick veneered)
• Moldings (water table, apron, casing, corner boards, pilasters, quoins, rake, bed, cornice, casing, pediments, lintels)
• Decks (wood type, pressure treated, plastic)