Monday, August 18, 2014

Nearly back to school

I really thought I'd posted more recently than nearly a month ago. There have definitely been some changes since the last pics, but it's not nearly as dramatic (at least in the kitchen) as I thought it would be by now. The cabinets, it turns out, are everything. They cost by far the most, and they set the time schedule for much of the rest of the process. And, we are still waiting on the cabinets (which is actually in the time frame of the project, I just am now feeling the "waiting" more). In fact, today may be the least productive day of the entire project, as one of the workers came by about 8, picked up the trash they'd been accumulating, and then left. Tomorrow, the floor refinishing process gets started, so then it should pick up again.

Kitchen with new oak floors that will match (as closely as possible) the existing ones in the rest of the house. Also, all wood framing is up except that one window on the left.

Facing the dining room. We still have lovely plastic sheeting about. Probably is keeping a lot of dust out of our remaining living areas, but we still have a LOT of dust everywhere. All our allergies are acting up.

Facing the back door.

Where the sink will be.

Tile in the powder room!

Still powder room, where the toilet will be. There will be a decorative tile above this and then I've chosen Sherwin Williams naval paint to go above that. I'm waiting for the day, soon, when I walk into the SW store and everyone says, "Hi, Lynette!" because I've been in so often.

Sink area of powder room.

A better view of the floor tile.


 Master bath, where the bulk of the recent changes have occurred. The blue tape will, of course, be removed. We had a little mishap with the glass tile, in that we ordered the "natural" (which is shiny, see-through glass) but they sent the "silk" (which looks like it's been sanded). The guys started installing them before we realized, and it would have delayed things 2 weeks anyway to get the correct ones in, so our contractor used some product that basically got the tiles back to looking transparent. I may or may not have had to sing the "Let it Go" song in my head while this was happening.

The quartz outlining the cut-out area is the same as will be used for the counter top in this room.

Have decided on the color swatch on the left: Sherwin Williams comfort gray. I brought home every possible variation of teal/aqua/blue/green, none of which was correct, before just googling "blue green gray paint" and coming up with the SW one. I don't know why I try to do things on my own anymore.

Just got word that the floor people can be here today due to a problem at another job (so I have to get everything we need for the next few days out of the basement, as we won't have access) AND the cabinets will be arriving next Tuesday. Yay!!

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