Niagara Visitor wrote:I took out the carpet in my living/dining room last year, my hardwood is a grey/beige................ I picked that because it doesn't show dust. I think I have seen the tile you're getting. If I were to take my ceramic out, that grey wood look tile is what I would get. There's a lot of ceramic in this condo, and I'm not willing to spend the money just to change the colour.
That's a good idea about picking a color that doesn't show dust -- also sounds like it wouldn't show pet hair either if you had a dog or cat, something lots of people have to consider. Yeah, I really like the wood look stuff, especially with the tiles that are lengthy and shaped like wood floor strips. I'm getting the grout that closely matches the color and he's putting in the thinnest grout he can, which is 1/8-inch. I'm pretty excited about it, as we've put it off for a while.
We also have to get some work done in our living room -- I've got water coming in the two front windows in our house for some time now. From what I could tell, and the contractor I hired agrees, it's due to the balcony on the front of our house -- when it was attached to the house when it was first renovated right before we purchased it, they didn't put any flashing in the area where the balcony meets the wood on the house and thus water leaks down when it rains or when the house is pressure-washed. So I need some sheetrock repair (and probably some insulation replaced) on the front wall and also the water has "traveled" into the ceiling a ways so I need sheetrock repair on the ceiling. Contractor seems to think he can repair it instead of replacing it but once he cuts a hole in the wall and the ceiling, he'll know better. The good thing is the entire estimate for all the work I'm having done came in a lot less than I thought it would so, as Martha Stewart would say, that's a good thing!
As long as he's doing that ceiling repair, I'm getting some old track lights taken down and getting some can lights put into the ceiling, the kind that you can sort of "tilt" towards the walls so I can direct them towards the artwork on the walls if I want. I'm not much of a fan of ceiling light, as I find lamps make a room look a lot warmer, but I want them up there anyway in case I want to use them. The wood floor in the living room has been damaged near the windows from the water coming in; I was going to get the polyurethane removed and just stain the floors darker rather than refinish them but the guy thinks he can fix them without going to that much trouble or expense. If I don't like the look of his "fix," then we can proceed to stain them darker, which color I would prefer but can live with them as they are to spare the expense of staining or refinishing.
Only thing left after thsat will be to replace the old track lights (the kind with the little halogen bulbs that were in fashion years ago) in the kitchen/dining room (one big room, like a country kitchen though not country looking in style) and put up some new fixtures in both areas of the room. In the kitchen, I want some of those smaller lights that extend down on rods, as I like tons of light in the kitchen, plus I have a huge pot rack stuffed with stuff over the island so I need lights that come down a bit so they're not over the pot rack casting shade in the room. I'm not real good at picking things but I've been thinking of this stuff for so many years now that I'm ready to make some decisions. The ceiling in that room is really high and is unfinished raw heart of pine wood, with the boards showing above and though it looks really good and garners a lot of "oohs and ahhs" from people, it's been difficult for me to pick the type of lights I want up there. Wish my sister was still alive as she was really good at stuff like that -- I think I have a lousy "spatial" sense and tend to not be able to "see" something in my mind before it's done. But the contractor is helpful as well, and he's been suggesting some of the very things I've been thinking of so it's given me more confidence than I had in the beginning.
How's the condo group lunch thing going? After the huge success of the first one you helped arrange, did you guys end up having them on a regular basis, Lore?
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