Tile Floor

Saturday was not only Valentine's Day but the day the tile was laid in the kitchen!! What a great day! Shawn's parents, sister and brother-in-law and his brother came to help with the installation. This was so it wouldn't take us weeks to do on our own. We all know how much I get to help, thanks to Will! They got into a groove and started around noon. Shortly after starting we realized that the boxes we bought had two sizes in them...baffling. They were suppose to be 18 x18 inch tiles. Some were 17's! No fear, the guys figured out how to make it work. Whew....

Wayne putting mortar on a tile.

Nathan laying down the first tile...of many!!!!

By the time they did the big area, where the dinning room table will be, they were all getting tired. They pushed on and went around the island, by the back door and in front of the cabinets. It was starting to come together and we were really liking it!!! I was glad to see that the color I picked looked so good. Around 7:30 p.m. Shawn finished cutting the last tile and it was put in place. They were ready to eat!

Tile floor from the top of the stairs looking toward the back door.

Tile floor on the other side of the island, where the kitchen table will go.


Better light in this shot.

Sunday afternoon Shawn, I and the kids went into Columbus to look at Lowe's and Home Depot. We needed to check into sinks and faucets. We found that both places carried the same things and that the sinks seemed to be the same size that we had in the "old" kitchen. We think that we can just clean ours up and finish it with a brushed nickle look. Shawn knows this will be work but was thrilled to put the money toward something else in the kitchen....and there is plenty! The exciting part of the trip was that I found a faucet that I really liked and it was $100 off!!! We had to go to two different Home Depot's but I picked up the last one on the shelve.

After taking the kids out to eat at Cheeseburger in Paradise we came home and cleaned off the tiles and attempted to get the mortar out of the cracks. I dashed in there to get any mortar off of the new cabinets, it was driving me nuts not being able to walk out there to do that. This week we are going to put the grout down and seal it. We are hopeful to get that done this week and move onto counter tops. At least now, we are just one more step closer to the finished product. We LOVE it so far!!!