Tile Part Two

The tile is up. Tomorrow grout.

Operation backsplash

We're finally getting tile in the kitchen!

Here's step one:



Tomorrow, the tile (a simple, glossy white subway number available at your local Home Despot for cheap, cheap, cheap) goes on. Saturday, we get grout.

Oh - and did you notice the new window! It's beautiful... new windows go on the list of things that really make a crap house look a ton better.

Green with envy.

Last weekend I painted the guest bathroom. I bet you can't wait to visit just so you can be in the presence of such a beautiful guacamole-green room.



But really, you should wait to visit until I've cleaned. The cabinet is still full of Campos toothpaste. Thankfully, it lacks cryptic bon mots regarding babies and boxes!

The kitchen comes along.

We've also made some more kitchen improvements.

As enjoyable as giving my fingertips/fingernails a work out every time I opened up a kitchen drawer was, it was bound to come to an end. And it did. Several weeks ago. We now have handles. A very exciting development.



We also have a microwave! It's beautiful and has all kinds of features... like a re-circulating fan. That means we can stink up the place and cook some meat on the stove.



Here are the open-shelves we bought. We spent a lot of hours drooling over Metro shelving at the restaraunt supply store before coming to the realization that it was just too much for our little kitchen. But just when it seemed all hope was lost, we gave Elfa a second look. We are pretty pleased with how they turned out:



And Chad made this lamp. Dig the swag!

Vines!

A couple of weekends ago, we decided to devote some energy to the exterior of Rooster Haus. So, we went to the Natural Gardner and picked us up some native/naturalized vines to hide the unsightly chain-linked fence. They like their new homes and have started flowering. Here they are!

Cross vine:


Passion vine:

Radio silence

We've been working hard on the house, but on the kinds of details that just don't make for good pictures. We've been touching up paint, for instance, and unpacking. Lots and lots of unpacking.

But there have been some visible changes this week. We finished up our chalkboard hvac closet door.




And we finally unpacked the books and bookcases in the office.





We will hopefully be getting the above-stove microwave in soon... and we've been getting bids for the tile backsplash in the kitchen... So things are coming along, but at a decidedly slower pace.