Important lesson learned. Early on in the project we head to Home Depot to pick out things like toilets, sinks, drawer pulls, lighting and various other things. There are 3 reasons for things being done this way...
1. You get a discount when you buy in bulk.
2. You pick things out at the same time so they all match or at least have a theme
3. Pay in advance and pick up when needed
What we learned this time around was....You can order it, pay for it and NOT be guaranteed to be able to pick it up. That is right, I said it....HOME DEPOT will not hold things for you that have ordered in advance and paid for. This was more than likely always the policy and we just never caught on until now. On Ginger it really affected us. They were out of our ceiling fans, toilet and chandelier causing us to scramble to pick out new stuff that is suitable and goes with the other stuff already installed. I am sure that it doesn't seem like a big deal, but it is. It takes quite a while to pick things out and when we have to go back to the drawing board in the final completion phase it SUCKS!
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