Almost DONE....

The kitchen floor is ALMOST completed and I am very pleased with how it has turned out. There is one small area left to do, by the front door, but we ran out of one size of tile so need to wait for it to come in. Otherwise....it is done. The grout photographs much lighter than it really is but you can get a general idea of how it looks.

Andrew had a meet today at Culver Academy so we made the 2.5 hour drive up to see him run. The campus was beautiful...it looked like a college campus. This was the largest meet they have participated in so far this year ~ there were 69 teams participating with 29 of them in their group. He ran in the freshman/sophomore 5K race and finished 79th out of 289 with a time of 18.31. The competing teams today were a much higher caliber than they have faced all season.. as a team, the 7 boys from his school, placed 9th out of 29 so not too bad.

Check it out...

Just a quick post to show the progress of the floor so far. This is really for Tim's benefit as he is not here to see it all being done. He just gets to see the finished project when he show up in town :-}

The dated old linoleum currently in the breakfast room

Backerboard on the floor.
The start of the tile installation
A closer look of the floor

Maggie School Picture

Maggie has just now let me know she got her school pictures back. HELLO>>>>>>does she now know she should have told me HOURS ago about this?? Anyway....it turned out very nice. What I don't like is the photo studio has their logo on the front of the photo and the school year on it ~ I will have to hide that part with a frame.

A Better Day and OPINIONS please

The tile guy showed up bright and early this morning at 8am and worked all day. Today there doesn't seem to be too much progress as it was mainly a prep day ~ take off doors, move laundry machine, floor boards etc. Tomorrow we should see even more progress.In the move back our family room furniture was damaged and as a result we get to have it recovered. I found this print fabric and really like it - I want to use it on the ottoman and the throw pillows. SO this means that I need to find the right solid color to go on the sofa and loveseat....here is what I am looking at....tell me what you think? ALL input is greatly appreciated - who knows I may completely change my mind :-) The solid fabric is an awesome microfiber and boy is it soft. The colors are not showing as a true representation of how they look but you can get a general idea.

Urghhhhhhhh

Why is it that contractors NEVER show up when they are supposed to? They were supposed to start our floors today and here it is 2:15pm and NOTHING has been done. I am using a decorator for this project and I foolishly thought her contractor would be on time etc. BUT NO!!! I was wrong.....the original plan was they were to be at the house between 8-830am then it was noon to 1pm. I left the designer a message telling her I WAS NOT IMPRESSED that the guy was not here and hasn't called and I CANNOT sit at home all day waiting for him. He did finally call a few minutes ago to let me know he won't be here today but will be here at 8am tomorrow morning. I could spit nails!!!

Here it is...

Andrew's school photo! As I said before it is too bad he blends into the background but otherwise it is pretty good.

A Few Things....

Our kitchen table set arrived on Friday and it is just PERFECT! Ignore the plastic on the seats as I need to take it off as well as the manufacturer tags. Things are finally coming together. The boys and I will have to move it Sunday night as they start the installation of the floor on Monday ~ but that isn't a big deal.

Andrew had a meet today which was HUGE!! There were something like 40 teams there and in his race, the JV run, there were 298 runners. He did well and finished 42nd and the JV team placed 4th overall so they had a good meet. His school photos arrived today and I will post them later...I need to scan the photo. It is good but a bit disappointing his background was blue and wore a blue shirt so he blends in :-)