Home Improvement

I'm so glad this weekend is going to be nice outside.  We don't have any plans dependent on the weather, I just am tired of indoor projects.

Since this month has started out with back to back rainy weekends, Kel and I have used our indoor time to get a few little projects done around the house.  We originally planned to just do a backsplash in the kitchen but a trip to Lowe's is like a trip to the grocery store; I always come home with more than I intended and spend way more than planned. 

As is always the case with our house, nothing is as simple as it should be.  In this case, the window above the sink has a frame around it that made it impossible to get a tile along the gap between the counter top and the frame.  I ended up having to cut part of it out and I'm really glad I did because it really ties the room together. 

Our other project, which we kidded ourselves that we could do the same weekend as the kitchen, was to replace the awful floor in our entryway.  This project wasn't as bad.  We ripped up the old outdated linoleum and simply stuck the new fake wood pieces down.  We were able to cut each piece with a
box cutter and the hardest part was just laying each piece out so the pattern looked good.  I put Kelly in charge of that and she did a great job.  Finally a fairly simple and inexpensive project. 

Before and after.