Trim

I haven’t been to the house since the weekend, but Guy’s been up and took a few pictures of the trim progress. We’ve decided to just stay out of their way and let them do whatever they want, and if they screw stuff up we’ll just have to make them fix it. So [...]

Some things never change

Guy has been in close contact with Levi regarding the trim guys because he wanted to be there when they showed up.  He spoke with Levi on Friday who told him that, unless we heard otherwise, the trim guys would be there Monday.  Great.  Plan for Guy to be at the house Monday.  Fast forward [...]

Milestone #2

Gosh, I didin’t realize I was so far behind on updates.  We’re officially done with the flooring.  Well, done enough so that the trim guys can do what they need to do.  We still have the master bath to finish but since they won’t be trimming in there we’re not under the gun to get [...]

More cork and tile

Monday night Guy and I started laying the cork in the living room. We got about two thirds of it done since we’re pros now. This photo is a good representation of the actual color since I took it during the day.

When we were done with that I went home and Guy stayed [...]

More tile

Seems like all we do lately is lay tile and grout, but it’s what has to be done so we do it. I finished grouting the tile in the mudroom yesterday…

while Guy started laying the full tiles in the master bath.

This week I will lay the cork flooring while Guy finishes up the tile [...]

Recovery

I’m happy to report that Kevin is on the road to recovery. He’s still in the ICU and may be for a few more days but the doctors are impressed with the improvements he’s made so far. He took the brunt of the hit on his head so there are a lot of [...]

In a flash…

Life can change in the blink of an eye.  Tonight my six year old nephew, Kevin, was struck by a car.  He was life flighted to the hospital and is currently in the intensive care unit.  The information I have at the moment is that he has a broken rib (or a few) and they [...]

Milestone number 1

Tuesday was spent grouting some of the areas of the dark tile in the entryway, only to find out that this tile is a royal pain in the butt because of all the cracks and crevices on the surface which make grout removal nearly impossible.  Needless to say, progress was slow.
Guy came up late and [...]

Still working on it

We got a late start yesterday so didn’t get as much done as we had hoped.  Guy let me lay some tile yesterday so that probably slowed things down too.  We did finish laying all the cut pieces of the dark color though and got the border for the area rug down, along with a [...]

Entryway tile

Guy and I spent yesterday working on the tile in the entryway. I think it took us longer to plan it out than it did to lay the tile. We’ve wanted an “area rug” in the tile design but couldn’t figure out exactly the best place to put it so that it looked [...]