Next Phase of "We're Going Postal!"

I put some of the tiles on the wall. I wanted to see how they would go up, what they would look like and about how many we would need...

Answers...they went up fine..tedious, but fine. They look AWESOME, see how we kept the one that says 402... looks like I will need to clean and paint about 500- 600 tiles to get the job done, but it sure will be worth it!...

You Know...that Authentic Porcelin Tile...

We got the cement backer board with the big load of lumber and supplies in June...so the pile of cement board has been being moved around and tripped over for 6 months. This weekend...gone! We laid what we needed in the kitchen and brought the last couple of sheets upstairs for our bathroom. The room looks huge!! No scaffolding, no cement board...it is those little things in life! Teddy got a little tool kit from Aunt Nancy and Chris for Christmas, so he came in saying, "I help Daddy." with his hammer in hand. He hammered the screws after Daddy screwed them in.

Yes, it was snowing a bit when we were using the wet saw this weekend. In between cuts, icicles were forming on the edge of the saw! Oh, what we will do to get a job done.

We got the appliances out and tiled under...it is looking so good!!!

Charles and the kids did the grouting on Sunday while I was at work...Seth and Ben ran the float and the sponges.

I got home at 7:00 to a finished floor. It looks so good to not have sub floor and tools all over. The tiles look like slate, but are porcelin. I just love it!! This kitchen is really looking fantastic!

We're Going Postal

We went to an auction this fall at a business that was closing in downtown Sturgeon. They used to make lock boxes from disassembled old postal boxes. One of us looked at a skid of glass from that auction and thought, "Those would make a cool backsplash." Isn't that what you would think!

So, when Charles went to pay the water bill (no online bill pay here. You need to walk the bill in or put it in the mail to find out what is going on in town) and struck up a conversation with the man writing up receipts, he found out that the man working in the office bought the old building. He came home and the first question out of my mouth was...are the glass tiles still there. A phone call revealed that they are and that we could have how ever many we wanted for the project. So we went for a free tour of the building and heard all abut wat he wants to do with the old building(it is close in age to our house) and walked out with five boxes of these old mail box glasses. (with a promise to invite him over when the backsplash is complete!)

First we scraped off the numbers, then a little cleaning and we laid them out and painted the backs with a hammered copper spray paint. You will have to wait a week to see what they look like up...but I think they will be amazing!

A Momentous Occasion!

The scaffolding has left the kitchen!

On to the Kitchen Walls

Now that the ceiling is done, we can move onto the walls! And we spent two days on my least favorite thing, mudding and sanding, mudding and sanding, mudding and sanding until finally, on Saturday, I got to paint! The paint is an amazing color called grape leaves and looks absolutely amazing! I can't wait to get the tiles up...those are another blog entry!

A Ceiling for the Kitchen

Well that took longer than we thought it would.

Friday, December 26th-Scraping the joints and putting up the ceiling.

Saturday December 27th-Planing more wood and putting up the ceiling.

Sunday December 28th-Church and putting up the ceiling.

MondayDecember 29th-We have 18 inches to go and probably would have finished except for the Mizzou football game!

Tuesday December 30-It is done! The ceiling is up. Now all we have to do is install the trim and whitewash it!

A complete ceiling. Paint and all! On to the walls!