After we moved the stove into the dining room and the fridge to the other side of the kitchen we found major water damage.
Our insurance company came, took pictures, we got two quotes, and they are picking up the cost.
Remember how last post I was all “whatever” about tile? OK, forget that part. Ceramic tile … stone … slate. It all rocks the planet. We’re definitely having it.
We are now experiencing what can be defined as “scope creep.” I mean… as long as we’re installing new tile why not paint while all the appliances are pulled out of the kitchen? As long as the floor is coming up why not install gas as we’ll want the next stove to be gas (and you have to cut through whatever floor is there to install it)? As long as we’re doing all that why not replace the 25 year old countertops? And if we’re replacing the countertops we’ll need to do the backsplash. First choice: Plum Copper Glass. It’s a plum heue. It’s copper. It’s embedded in glass. It is so hot. Unfortunately, it also costs a fortune so I’ll be having “cutouts” where they sneak in little bits here and there.
Our tile installers pointed us to a showroom in Grand Rapids. We’ve been there once and plan to go again on Saturday. Exciting? yes. Terrifying? yes. I actually found the floor I wanted on trip one, then I realized it was bumpy slate and would be incredibly uncomfortable to walk on, much less to spend 8 hours baking holiday cookies on.
My planned kitchen color theme: burnt red with earthy plum accents.
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I am new to this forum but I have an emergency. As we speak, I have a contractor installing 27sf of paperfaced opaque glass mosaic in my kitchen. The started the job yesterday but did they only completed about 8sf (don’t even want to get into work ethic). When I looked at the thinset they were using it said Maipei Premixed Thinset.
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