That Is Not Gonna Work

Doing my daily check-in at the new house and noticed a few things needed to be fixed. The first is the custom desk. I bought unfinished kitchen cabinets on clearance, and 15 feet of prefab countertops from the home improvement store. What I did not account for was the height of the cabinets. I brought a chair over to try it out and the desk was waaaaay too high. After some googling I learned the average height is 29" for a desk and 36" for kitchen counters. Ooops, my bad! So, unless I use a barstool to sit at the desk we had to figure out a way to fix it.  To solve the problem, my contractor had to cut the cabinets down (and yes, this was an additional labor cost).

BEFORE 

And AFTER. See the line? That is where the desk used to be. 

The top drawers were cut out.

Now onto the next item to be fixed...when you first come into the house you are greeted by this hot mess of light switches in the foyer. First of all, I don't need to turn on all the lights in the entire house from the entry. And two, I don't want light switches that turn off lamps that I won't even have plugged into the outlets that these switches control. And three, come on it's just ugly! He's going to fix it by removing a few unnecessary ones and then have the remaining switches in just one row.