Hey feisty! Long time no see. What great progress you've made. And, yours is not the longest reno for a small kitchen. I'm right there w/ you, still! Don't start a new thread. Keep this one going so everyone can see the progress over time. I love love the tile! I actually chose blue like that for my backsplash. However, I haven't put mine up! So, as you can see, your reno is no longer than mine! I was moving along & doing well & then I brought it to a complete halt about 8 months ago. I'm now thinking about tearing my whole house down & building 2 on my lot! Keep one for me & sell the other. I'm still not sure if I'm going to do it, but I hate to put anymore $ into the kitchen, & whole house for that matter, if I'm going to knock it down. Still iffy on doing it, but am thinking seriously about it. We'll see. You have come a long way & it looks great. I think you should do the tile. I don't think it's going to be trendy & date the kitchen down the road. I thought the brass was going to be trendy, but it's still going strong. Go w/ what you like! I can't wait to see more!

erosenst, you are not going to get a lot of response to decorating a house you don't even own yet and may not even get it. If/when you get the house, post pics of the space and ask for advice. Go room by room. Asking for whole house, blank slate decorating advice is too vauge. The fabric on eBay is probably not even going to be around by the time it would be needed. If you need furnishings fast and cheap, in the trasitional style, try Target. Although home_decorator_guy may be trying to drive folks to his site at least he did offer some good advice in his post (IKEA) and the link has to do with decorating and not Nike shoes or something. I don't see anything sold there. He came back to follow the thead and it was not 'hit and run' spamming. I just ignore this sort of spam since some people may find his link useful and as long as he doesn't link to it in every post of his I am not going to fret about it. Here is a link that might be useful: Target Furniture

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