Our emptied out kitchen was bizarre and no matter how much the floor was cleaned, it still looked dirty.
Yes, I still need to put artwork in that Ikea frame . . .
Thanks to all the grooves imprinted into this linoleum tile, it was a major dirt catcher. And a house with two dogs does not need any dirt catchers. Plus there was some charming other features like this hole to nowhere:
The water line and gas line come up through a separate hole so this is a head-scratcher as to its purpose. Direct “telephone” line to the work bench below? Dunno. We filled it in with an old champagne cork. You can also see how the previous owners didn’t undercut the jams and instead left more dirt catchers there. Lovely.
What is lovely? A sight for now-sore eyes? (Sorry about that gross pic.) The kitchen at around 10pm last night. New, gorgeous 12×12 tile in a nice warm grey.
JT and his dad worked hard all day and I came home to a half tiled kitchen. Fast forward to 10pm and it was pretty much all wrapped up. The elder Mr. T is at our house right now (the benefits of retirement) finishing up the pantry floor and a few other things. I’m so lucky to have such a handy and helpful father-in-law (and husband too). My boys take good care of me.
So, we’ll be grouting come Friday! I’ll be back with more pictures, don’t you worry. This is the biggest project we have tackled on the house to date and it will be such a MAJOR improvement.
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I heard tile was a happening by ST (older and questionably wiser brother of JT) 🙂 The house is looking great! Loving all of the blue. We’ll have to come see it soon once we dig ourselves out of our own reno. So see you in 2015!
Thanks Ms. T! I’m in love with the tile but I don’t know if my knees and back will be recovered until 2015! Cheers to renovations! (Ours small, yours ginormous!)