Cinderella Moment

Cleaning, sealing, grouting, and cleaning (again!) even a few square feet of new tile is rough on the knees. Whether a squat or a kneel, bare-kneed or knee-pads, not so much fun. Sooo, by the time I finished doing this for a few hundred square feet in our kitchen, living room and master bathroom last night, grout dust all over my body and clothes - and possibly a bit loopy from the sealer fumes - I felt a little like Cinderella in her not-so-glamorous days. Minus the evil step mother/sisters, of course. I was and AM ready to be done with this project, get dressed up and go to the ball! A classy bar would work too :) The only things keeping me going are a) I'm sick of living without LIVING room furniture, and b) it's starting to really look great!

Greg gets home late tonight from his second trip to Wisconsin in two weeks, so I will be relieved to have help for the home stretch.

Another fun little project I did on Monday was cleaning up the gas fire place. We got some heat-resistant spray paint and freshened up the black, and changed the brassy gold to matte silver. It was amazing what a difference even just cleaning the glass made.

This weekend we decided instead of surrounding the fireplace with more travertine, which was our original plan, we would use some beautiful glass tile we found. Might use it for the kitchen backsplash as well. I didn't buy enough the first go-round, so the first picture below is what it looks like now, and (courtesy of photoshop) the second picture is similar to what it will look like when we finish. We may add a mantel shelf, but that is still to be determined.

I missed garbage day today because this week has all blended together for me...drive to work, come home and work, shower, crash, drive to work, come home and work, etc.......I thought it was only Tuesday! Oops :) By the time I post again, I really hope you'll see some furniture in the pictures :).