Actually, the person in that one image is my aunt, not my mother.
I did see it before posting and let it slide. No biggie. They have actually been following this thread from abroad, and so has mom.
As far as the fridge, we did try pulling the fridge out far enough to where the door would open all the way, but it meant pulling it about 3" past the corner, which really compromised the floor space and ingress to the kitchen. The builder put a protective clear rubber bumper on the corner of the wall to keep from damaging the fridge door when opening it. The bottom drawer does pull out all the way (it goes below the lowest pocket in the door), as do other drawers on the right side. So for now, we're going to leave it like this and decide later if we want to go through the trouble of cutting out a 45 in the corner. For now, mom wants to just get fully settled in and now have workers in the house every day.
As for the railing, I do believe there are screws in addition to nails holding them to the posts, I'll double check when I get a chance.
The speaker grilles can be painted, in fact Polk includes specific instructions on how to do it. As Stu pointed out, the paint has to be sprayed on. After the 1st coat, the grill has to be turned 90 degrees and then the 2nd coat applied. This is to prevent the small holes from being clogged. Not sure we'll bother. The while matches the white in the picture frames nicely as it is.
Yes, all the speaker wire was run ahead of time, although with the large openings for the in-wall speakers, it would have been relatively easy to snake them up from below after the fact. DirecTV was installed yesterday and is working great. Mom got the Genie HD DVR, and it is great. I showed her how she could pause live TV and automatically record TV series shows, and setup favorite channel lists, etc. She was blown away. I had to cut down a cluster of 3 poplar trees to get a clear signal. One was leaning towards the house, so it was probably good to get it down anyway.
As for Internet, that is scheduled for tomorrow, and will be Satellite based (Exceed), as that is unfortunately the only option presently. Verizon were not willing to sell me a dry loop between my house and mom's, and other wireless options failed to get decent signals.
There have already been a few brief power outages and the generator comes online and transfers powers within 10 seconds. It starts within 3 seconds of loosing utility power. The generator I'm having issues with is the one at my house (the Generac).
The rock on the chimney is done, as are the front walls. I'll take some pics this afternoon of those, as well as the DirecTV dish install on the chimney and the coax and Ethernet cabling in conduits. Turned out nice I think.
