Garage Locking Tiles- The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Best
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Comments (9)pete in my last house i installed tile on a portion of the floor and carpet on the rest. when I did this - the DITRA product was not available (or at least I had never heard of it). I used a self leveling product and tiled over that - never had a crack and the dogs loved it in the summer (cool bellies!). In the winter - I put down a carpet and the dogs loved it (warm bellies). Tile is a great product for a basement. When I do my next basement project in the new house I will use Ditra first and tile over that. For the rest of my old basement - the carpet was OK but we did have an occasional smell which may have been due to some moisture that would come up around the lolly columns when we had a lot of rain. I think carpet can work OK in the basement but I would put down a raised subfloor first. Take a look at a product called Dricore which provides a rasied subfloor with 1/4 inch air gap. Then carpet over the Dricore. You might also look at some of the new higher end vinyl products. You can get vinyl that looks like hardwood or stone and might work better than the carpet. Again - install over a subfloor with air gap....See MoreTell me the good, bad and ugly about cats!
Comments (78)Thanks to you all for posting the pic for me! natal, Thanks! I had to postpone the vet appt to Tuesday. My dryer quit working and had to get it fixed that day. sable, I will definately ask the vet if it could possibly be asthma. She still does it a lot! Funny thing about her, I was ready for her to be a "talker" since she is a siamese mix, and she hardly talks! Maybe she will as she gets older? bestyears, she is doing great with my son! She still loves my DH the best though. My son wants to carry her around, when she would rather be sleeping, I think. He sometimes picks her up when she's in her little post (in the pic), asleep. tjerrilynn, that is the CUTEST thing I have ever seen! I love his (or her) haircut! marlene, thank you and I am glad to hear about the male and female cats together. I am going to seriously start looking for another one. betsyhac, your cats are so pretty and full-figured-LOL! June is on the skinny side now, and I'm guessing she will be until she gets out of the kitten stage. I wonder what she will look like when she's all mature! She plays with us a lot now, and is very curious. She loves to lay on her back and let us rub her belly until she falls asleep, so cute! I got a hooded kitty litter box and she likes it, thank goodness! It has been much easier to keep clean around the box now. I put one of those rubber (I think) kind of pads down in front of her box as she walks out and it has made such a difference, plus the hood on the box. She has Softpaws on her nails right now, baby blue to match her eyes! We just love her!...See MoreIs this layout good, bad, or just ugly?
Comments (14)I have a U that has 92" legs and 160" on wall B. I can assure you you don't want an island as a barrier in an efficient U. Your U will only be 26" wider than mine--that's two steps. A small rolling island would come in handy for putting groceries away in the fridge. I have to put mine on the peninsula and leave the fridge doors open while I go back and forth. It's only for a few seconds, but I've been trained not to leave the fridge door open. ;) My peninsula is 39" wide, including the countertop. Widening the peninsula will give you a deep prep area, shorten the U slightly, and provide better splash protection behind the sink. My splash zone is 19" and splashes have gone almost to the edge. (My sink is short, only 17" deep.) My wide peninsula functions as an island, though not as ideal as one across from a range. It's great for rolling crusts and anything else where I need to spread out. What will you do on the family room side of the peninsula? You have a very long cabinet run for it to be solid cabinetry. With my wider peninsula, I added 12" of cabinets behind the 24" deep sink cab, DW, and trash cabinet. The two end cabinets have doors and hold bar glasses and fine china. I also didn't want just one cabinet at the end as it seems dated to me. When we first set up the kitchen, we had a coffee center in the corner where you plan yours. Though we have no prep sink, it became a pain to carry the mugs there when we unloaded the DW. We now have it to the right of the sink and it works fine without getting in the way of cooking and washing dishes, even though my corners are tighter than yours. We can make coffee from the DR side of the peninsula if someone is making brunch at the sink and stove, as happened on Christmas. Your corner prep sink eliminates one drawer from your kitchen, forcing you into the island for storage. It's an expensive solution for making a cup of coffee. In my B and C corner, I made a dead zone in the base so I could have full drawers on both sides. I read someone's analysis of the actual storage space in a Susan vs. two drawers, and the drawers had more usable storage....See MoreSoapstone...The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Comments (59)I got samples of soapstone when we were deciding what countertops to get. My favorite one looked just like your light gray with dramatic veins. But, the testing I did on the sample with mustards, oils, etc. made me decide that variety was not for me. I still wanted soapstone, but couldn't afford it at the $120 sf installed price here in St. Louis. And they only had one variety. We ended up with Black Pearl granite which I like and it's been easy maintenance. We went to a remnant sale in April and they had one slab of a harder variety soapstone that we bought for our island countertop at a fraction of the price. It'll be installed in two weeks. I sure hope I like it. If not, at least I didn't pay $120 sf. :-) Too bad you can't reuse it in some way; i.e., table top, fireplace surround. If not, clean it up and sell it....See Morepalimpsest
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