please take my survey

Remember this, from way back in Feb?

Now we're looking more like this:

But even better, really, because all the dishes are back in the new cabinets, the trim is (mostly) done, floors are finished, etc. etc.

All we are waiting on is countertops. We've been waffling on countertops since before we even started this project, and now here we are--- everything else is done and we STILL cannot decide.

So, I am putting it to you. I'll spare you my ramblings about how I much I hate granite, but also seem to hate everything else too, and resale value, blah blah, industrial processing of composites v. mining something that's shipped halfway around the world.

Our choices right now are these:

1. Buy recycled product from BIGBOXSTORE

2. Buy non-renewable resource (granite) from LocalIndependentBusiness

OR,

3. Buy also non-renewable, but really the whole earth is covered in this stuff so it's not going anywhere (quartz) from LocalIndependentBusiness

Support the little guy or support the globe?

dusty

When the faculty start to grill me about the lack of intellectual rigor in my last qualifying exam, (due Wed!) I will show them this picture and tell them that this past weekend I traded in brains for brawn.


(and yes, those are pink work gloves. what of it?)

tile woes

I have a whole backlog of posts that I need to write.

About my mom, the grand weather we've been having, the fact that I now have the entire contents of a bathroom displayed in my backyard (toilet ala fresco!).

But before I can do that we have to settle on some new tile.

And it boggles the mind, people, how two people who went into this knowing exactly what they wanted can get so bogged down with the little details.

Somehow retro-repro Hex & Subway tiles (as in here),

has turned into a long week of waffling.

Glazed or unglazed?

1" or 2"?  1.5"?

All white or with a colored flower mosaic?

Square trim or rectangular?

And don't get me starting on shopping around for the best deals.

It is sucking my will to live.

First world problems, folks, I know.  

But we have to decide so we can repair all the work we did on Sunday:

Also, regarding that tub?

We have secured a sledgehammer and will soon be bludgeoning it to death so we can fit it down the stairs. 

Back to the important musings soon.