Tiling kitchen

[bogolove]

We started tiling our backsplash area in our kitchen this past week. Here is an picture of it unfinished.

We have since finished it, grouted it, and now we are painting the kitchen a new color because the yellow does not go as well with the tile. My husband is a manager at Sherwin Williams so we experiment with paint around our house all of the time. The color we picked is called mocha and we are going to faux finish it also to give it that "Tuscan" look. I am quite happy how the tile turned out. I will post another finished pic once we are done with everything.

I am also really excited because we are going to put laminate flooring in the living room this week. That will be so nice! Brady and Jenny both tracked mud into my house the other night. I don't really care but it will be a lot easier to clean up if there is no carpet downstairs.

 

[Debi]

that is simply GORGEOUS!!! I love any kind of remodelling projects....it's just what Dave and I do for fun. You know..some people golf............we play in the house. You'll LOVE it without carpet...soooooo easy.

 

[Renee750il]

That's beautiful, Bogolove! I've got beautiful slate flooring for my kitchen and white porcelain tiles for the bath . . . in boxes in the basement . . . AARRGHH!

I love getting DONE with remodelling and decorating, can't say I really enjoy the processes all that much.

 

[Barb04]

Wow!!!!! I love what you did. I do most of the work in my house myself so I know how good it feels when it comes out like this. You may have inspired me to try something else.

 

[bogolove]

Here it is, redone but without the cutains and pictures back up:

what do you think?

 

[bogolove]

It is hard to really tell in the pics, but those are the best pics we could get. I am very happy with it and it looks great with the curtains and the pictures now back on the wall.

We are putting laminate flooring in Wed. so I will take a before and after pic of that for you too.

 

[Renee750il]

Oh, I love it - but it's almost the exact color I painted my kitchen!

I've got medium oak cabinets and the countertop is a muted turquoise stone-looking formica (or whatever it is now, lol) and I've kept the old tung-and-groove wainscotting on the wall without cabinets.

 

[bogolove]

Yeah my kitchen is my favorite room in the whole house. It is really big, though the rest of the rooms in the house aren't nearly so, so maybe that is why I love it so much. Now our dining room table doesn't go anymore, but Matt has been wanting a new one anyway, he doesn't like the one we have. One day we will get one....

Why won't Charley go to the other one, where the bigger kitchen is? Tell him you will cook him a nice meal...whatever he wants and a dessert

 

[Debi]

AWESOME color on the walls.....it almost looks as if you glazed it??? I know that is fabo for a Tuscany look. I LOVE my kitchen, too.........not to cook mind you....just to hang out. hehehehe what is the color (maybe you said and I missed it)?? LOVE it! maybe it's my monitor....looks sort of textured, too.


Renee....DRAG Charley by the shirt collar......................oh wait, .......that would be something I would do. LOL

 

[Debi]

when you post a pic in a thread...do you get the URL from somewhere like photobucket or something? I'd like to show you the hearts Dave put indented in the plaster in our ceiling of our bedroom....but I'm not sure how to post pics.

 

[bogolove]

The color is mocha and we faux finished over it with a glaze. It does look even better in person. My husband is a manager at Sherwin Williams so he is very good at choosing colors. I like to hang out in mine also even if I am not cooking. Kitchens are fun for some reason.

We have space from our internet provider that we can load the pics to and then we use the url to post the pic in the forum.

 

[Renee750il]

Charley just loves it out here on the farm and you really have to have someone here with the cows to feed once a day and keep an eye on things. But I think I'm going to start working more out of my house. I don't really have room to spread papers out here. I can convert my big dining room into an office and hijack one of my Dad's old drafting tables that he doesn't use anymore (CADD has taken the place of drafting tables, but they are the best worktables ever) to spread out all the docs I deal with. The dogs can come in with me since they like being there - they just want to be wherever I am - they don't care where it is.

I know Charley misses my cookie baking! He got so hooked on my toll house cookies.

 

[Barb04]

I love the kitchen. My only problem is with the Mocha on the wall reminding me of something to drink and Renee's cookies, I'm hungry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Debi]

Bogolove, when you added the glaze.....did you mix a paint color in it and then dilute....or did you just apply the glaze over your color? I'm so clueless about glaze...how did you apply it? I love the 'old world' look of the muted color, so pretty! Thanks

 

[bogolove]

Well, Hubby is the paint expert, so I think he did a color slightly lighter and added to the galze and then you use the sponge or a speical roller that is a sponge and you roll it over the other color once it has dried. then you take a regular roller and roll it over the sponged lightly while it is still wet to blend it.

 

[bogolove]

He did one quart of paint with three quarts of glaze. I just asked him to make sure I told you right earlier, Debi.