A facelift…
This is our new living room floor. While I was in Calgary, I was quite enamoured with some hardwood flooring that I found, and it was even on sale. We had been looking at laminates, which also are beautiful, but I like this “Sunset Ash” even better.
So, I loaded the truck up with that, and some ceramic tile for the kitchen and lumbered home, so to speak: the truck was really weighed down!
Though Gary and I considered doing the work ourselves we decided to at least get an estimate from the fellow who built some cupboards for us last year. To our great surprise, our friend managed to fit this job into his schedule: he had another, more extensive renovation that would be done “in two halves”, with a few days in between.
The men came and installed the hardwood flooring, and then asked if we wanted them to put the ceramic tiles down as well! The living room was done in a day (Wednesday), and yesterday they glued the kitchen tiles down. During the evening and night, Gary and I thought that it would be safe to just walk on the new tiles to get to the wood heater downstairs, but we were wrong, apparently. We broke FOUR tiles which had to be replaced today.
So, most of the kitchen floor is grouted now, and we will grout the “replacement” tiles ourselves, after 24 hours. I certainly hope that they are stable enough then! We’re all contrite and surprised, like wayward children, but it’s hard to live in our house without travelling through the kitchen!
*Sigh* I guess we’ll have to dine out tonight!
All else is well around here. We got several more inches of snow, which Gary is out blowing around. It’s wet heavy snow, and last night the highways were terrible, so Gary cancelled a trip to Ft. St. James, where he trims & shoes horses.
Dogs have been coming and going steadily though I haven’t had time to take many pictures. Will try to get back to it soon.
Tomorrow I’ll take a pic of the kitchen floor for you who care.
Hope all of you who check out my blog are also just fine and dandy.
Love, Ann
