Two years later, finally posting my reveal!
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The Taj Mahal is (finally!) finished...five years later
Comments (5)My husband found your wonderful website while browsing the internet for help with our own small greenhouse, still in progress. Your photos and notes are great, and it has been helpful and fun to read! Thanks so much for sharing all your experiences. Sheri...See MoreFinally, one year old kitchen revealed and need photoshop help
Comments (14)Rest of the photos: View of the island: Computer Desk wall: Sliding door wall Fridge corner: Here is a closeup of the backsplash options I am considering. The middle one is my favorite. It is a gray blue glass tile. The right most fits the budget. It is Adex subway tile. The size I am considering is different. It is a 2X4 beveled subway. The color I am thinking is also different. I would like a big favor from photshop experts. I would like to visualize the gray blue fully in the window wall and the hood wall. DH wants us to tile the computer wall too. Also, is it possible to photoshop two more options. One is Adex celery 2X4 beveled subway tile too fully on all the walls. And the other option is to do the celery/bone with everywhere except beneath and above the hood. I would like to try the gray/blue glass tile just above and below the hood. Please help me make a decision and give your suggestions too. Here is the link to the adex beveled subway tile: http://www.adexusa.com/viewproduct.php?id=532 Backsplash options: Family room sofa: Rug under the sofa fireplace wall: tv wall: Another tile I like is this: http://www.covefinishings.com/MS01.html#...See MoreOur glass backsplash is finally done -- a year later!
Comments (21)Raehelen, maybe some of us don't want to be finished because then we would have less of an excuse to drop in on GW! My husband thinks addicted. I'm proud to call myself TKO and I love this community! We do have one tiny unfinished business: still trying to get our danged granite people to come out and make a hole for a dishwasher air switch. We've been asking for almost a year. ADVICE TO EVERYONE ON GRANITE: Make sure you know everything you're going to want on your counter (faucets, hot water thing-y, etc.) when you order your granite, cuz they ain't gonna come back for one little thing! We are learning this the hard way. We even tried this weekend to rent a drill to make the hole ourselves -- how hard can it be, we thought? But the rental place didn't have anything suitable. So we're back to groveling with the granite fabricator....See MoreFour years and two babies later…the kitchen is finally (almost) ready
Comments (20)Thank you all! For the tile lovers, there is a story behind it. I always had a strong vision for this kitchen, and part of the vision was the absence of upper cabinets and a wall of statement tile. I am obsessed with Moroccan mosaics, but when I priced them out, the real mosaic, i.e. the pattern made up of actual small pieces of tile, was prohibitively expensive. Lookalike tiles produced here that are just a stamp of the pattern on tile were cheap but looked cheap, the printed pattern began to peel off in a very short time. The tile I ended up with, I first found online here at like $30 PER TILE. And I was ready to buy it! My DH, though, who is of Arab extraction and very wily, saw the stamp on the back of the tile that read "Doremail" in Arabic, and told me to look for the factory online first. Lo and behold, not only is this factory online, but when I wrote to them, they were perfectly pleasant and professional. We bought this tile https://doremail.com/en/andalusian-tiles/719-sevilla.html and this tile https://doremail.com/en/oriental-tiles/895-fares.html 150 sqft airlifted to Dulles airport was only $1,500, which is basically the price of midrange Home Depot tile! And there are so many other gorgeous options. So very happy to give them the plug. Re: breakfast nook, I wanted to buy specifically from the restaurant supplier because the benches/booths you get in regular furniture stores are not designed with the same level of quality and detail. People who make furniture for restaurants understand that the goal is to make the customer so comfortable in the chair that he/she will want to sit there for a long time and order more. So if you look at your standard diner booth, you'll see that it is angled in the seat, in the back, in the shin area, and that makes it much more comfortable than your standard 90-degree angle bench you buy in "regular people" furniture stores. And it's not THAT much more expensive, and you can get it made to custom size very easily because they are used to it. I mean, try telling Wayfair: "oh, this one is fine but can you make it in gray and four inches longer"....See MoreShelley Graham
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