The sink is pink, I think

We've had our first house-remodeling setback.  The (expensive) marble sink top we special ordered arrived on Friday, and we picked it up and got it out of the box yesterday -- and it totally clashes with our new tile work and the floor we had planned to put in (which hasn't been done yet).  It was supposed to be "English Brown" and the sample piece they had in the store was just what we wanted.  But what came has a definite pinkish cast to it, and it just doesn't look right, not even if we change the floor tile to a lighter color.  The pink sink changes the color of everything in the room, and we just can't "make do" with that.  :-/

Now we are in quandary.  We could return it and try ordering another, but it would be at least three weeks more of waiting, and then what if they really can't control the color any better on the next one?  DH is going to take it back and talk to the store people about it, and show them just how poorly the color matches.  There won't be any problem with sending it back, we just have to decide what to replace it with.  Maybe we'll just have to get an ordinary marble one off the shelf and not go with the really nice kind we had wanted -- it would be far better to be temporarily disappointed in having to downgrade in quality but to have something that matches, than to have something really fancy and hate it everytime you go into the room because it just doesn't look right.

I've taken some pictures of some of the parts of the house that are presentable, but I can't find my card reader for the digital camera, so I can't upload pictures in my camera.  But so you can see a little something, I managed to get a couple of decent shots with the cell phone.

( Bathroom tile )

( Living room )

There's lots of work yet to do around the place, but it does feel like home, and that's very settling.  :-)