Good memory, rookie. I keep waiting for a few more details. The kitchen itself is about 99% finished, but since it flows into the laundry/mud/pantry/garage hallway which is waiting for paint and door handles, I wanted to wait for the finished product. (Plus, it hasn't seemed to be clean since we finished the kitchen.) It was scheduled to be painted tomorrow, but that has been put off until next week. I do have some before/after pics already, but they seem incomplete; I hope that by mid-week I'll be able to post. Thanks for asking! Do I need to get a boxer?

I'm not sure how I came across this post, I think it was displayed on the right side and I clicked on it being intrigued by the tile making. I was at one time interested in working with papercrete and hypertufa. But after enlisting my brother, who wasn't as enthusiastic, and my niece, who poured cement down my laundry room sink, which original to the house had lasted 70 years, and ruining three blenders, my interest waned. True to form, if I come upon difficulty in a project, I think of it as a sign for me not to continue. And really, after all these years of trying various crafts that result in crap, I should know better. I also should have known better than to ask my brother, who always says it can't be done to any of my unique design ideas. And I should have known better than to ask my niece, who once stayed up all night before having to drive to LA for an art show, cutting mat after mat after measuring once, twice, sometimes ten times, but always coming out with the wrong size. I think we both have math dyslexia. I should video us trying anything crafty to see where we go wrong. I think both of us having ADHD might have something to do with it. Sorry for the backstory and run on sentences. So, I just wanted to see if you continued with your venture. And to say sorry for whatever tragedy occurred to cause you to have to move to Florida. Not that there is anything wrong with Florida, but it isn't Panama. Which is one of my favorite places in the western hemisphere. I hope no one is upset that I brought up a seven year old post.

I would stop it at the hood. I've never seen tile go above cabinets to the ceiling. Well, I have seen it a time or two and I don't like the floating look. You'll also have the floating look over your peninsula to deal with because your wall cabinet ends a bit too short of the end. You can't stop the tile directly under the cabinet with that much counter extending beyond. I might put a shelf over the peninsula and tile to the bottom of the shelf. Then put another shelf about a foot above that one. You can only do this if you have enough length between the cabinet and end of the peninsula--a 12" shelf won't work, but 15" or 18" would. You might be able to tile to the window and down to the floor to achieve this. It looks like that's what they did here. Here's another way to extend tile out to the surrounding mouldings by adding a matching chair rail at the top of the tile over the peninsula.

Mayflowers this hood has been an issue from day one. I didn't ask for corbels and don't recall seeing them in the preliminary sketches I was shown by our cabinet maker. By the time I saw the actual hood they were in place and the other issues that presented were more pressing than the corbels. Now, after living with it for awhile and not having so many other irons in the fire, I am able to see things more clearly. As I said, I'm not happy with how it turned out and am getting the message from my hubby that '"it's too late now, we're not going to change it." I'm not sure I can remove the corbels without damaging the bottom of the hood, although I am sorely tempted to try!