More stuff
Posted by K Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:03:00 GMT
More pictures of the now-finished demo can be found here and I understand they are cleaning up that junk in the backyard (some of the stuff did not come out of our house, like that wicker thing and that fence-looking thing, so I guess the neighbors are using our yard to get rid of stuff).
I am currently being a huge dork and am making scale drawings of all the kitchen walls and planning out the cabinets. I think we are going with IKEA since they are cheap and rated highly by Consumer Reports (higher than other cabinets I was thinking about). I am conflicted about countertops… Corian remains stupidly expensive, I think, even though I can’t be sure. Concrete is cool but a pain, stainless is expensive and gets fingerprinty, and I am kind of interested in soapstone (even with the possible need to oil it) just because if it reminds me of seventh grade science class. How could it be bad?
Budget woes abound since we have to replace a lot of plumbing and wiring (which really isn’t so surprising, but still, very sad-making for our wallets), so we have to sit down and figure all that out. We may be moving into a house with unfinished floors if we run out of cash.
We also went out yesterday and looked at flooring, with the bathroom floor in mind. I just can’t get behind any floor tile that isn’t 8 bucks a square foot because it is all ugly and/or boring. Well, actually, most floor tile is ugly and or boring except I like hex tile, which is eight bucks a square foot. We did find field tile that is not horribly expensive ($3 a square foot) which was exciting but kind of useless since we need the tile there and not here.
So we also looked at and considered or ridiculed wood, engineered wood, bamboo, engineered wood that looked like bamboo, cork, vinyl tiles (we actually found one cool pattern), rubber tiles (which I want but will be very pricey and seem to be a pain to get if you are a residential consumer type person and not, say, a hospital), linoleum, and bright pink carpet.
I also got to fondle my faucet some more. I will pull the trigger and just buy it soon (somewhere cheaper than that). I have been mooning over it for five months now.
Also, one of our neighbors-to-be dropped by and told our contractor that she had an original door to the house she would give to us if we wanted (I think she is getting rid of it otherwise). I love our neighborhood. I kind of like our 1940’s door but this one sounds like it would let a lot more light in, and I am all about that (of course, I have to talk to Matt about this before I write back). But thanks, neighbor we do not know yet!
