When I started this blog, I thought I would be frequently posting about home improvement projects, but that hasn’t happened so much. The last real project we did was the patio and that was way back in April.
Well, we’re back on our home improvement horses. Look what we did!
We paid a friend of ours to build us a kitchen island. Here it is when we first moved it in, with tiles strewn about.
Then there was the glueing part. See the cool lighter colored accent pieces spread throughout? Actually, the tiles didn’t fit right by one inch on all the vertical rows. So, we cut a couple of tiles down into one inch pieces and voila! Looks like we did it on purpose!
I did the glueing part all by myself, which I am totally glad about because I was able to be as anal as I wanted to be with the tile placement. I went through the box and picked out all the prettiest ones. When I placed them, I would fish through and make sure the colors were evenly distributed. If I had had help, you know I would have been mocked and ultimately I would have given up on it.
Then there was the grouting part. We chose a grout in “haystack”, which I thought was going to be a bit darker, but it is actually a nice tan. Whoever did the tile on our countertops used WHITE grout which was a BAD idea. It always looks dirty. I guess I want my grout to hide the dirt. (which is sounding gross all of a sudden, but you know what I mean)
Ta Da! Isn’t it pretty? It’s not quite finished. I am incredibly blessed with handy parents. My dad is going to drill through the floor and plumb a dish washer for that hole in the front and my mom is going to wire us a plug-in on the back side.
And then we had friends over and there was somewhere to stand and lean in the kitchen and all was well.
