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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Ah well next time we go on a weekend, you can come along with us... you weren't around when we left or we woulda hollered.
We just spent 4 and a half hours at Menard's.
My feet hurt.
Most cool! Wave at the President for us! ;o)
But at least your hands are soft!
Not that soft....
(Menards is a home improvement store. The biggest in town. Ownz Home Depot or Lowes).
In the course of that time we bought an electric fireplace for the basement and designed a whole extra halfwall/bar. And decided to do faux wood flooring. And figured out our next project after the one after this.
We went and bought a piano today. We are so insane. *sigh*
Aw, I'm jealous.
Learning to play piano is still on my list of things to do someday.
But more realistically, I need to find a local violin teacher one of these days. I now have a nice fiddle, courtesy of my little sister. Well...I did pay her. But she was the one who found it, fixed it up, and got it to me. They brought it to the wedding with 'em.
I love 'em too. We plotted the rest of our basement - fake wood floor with an area rug on top. Got supplies to try out various paint combos. And a half-wall along the side between our finished side and the laundry room side. It'll be extra wide, with an electric fireplace in the middle. Stone tiles around the fireplace for a hearth effect and then built in bookcases on either side. And it'll be wide enough to have a full counter edge, for a bar. We can put stools on the other side and have a great little social area, plus counter space.
Then we discussed things to do to our somewhat useless upper bathroom - it has a tub we never use but no shower. We could replace the sink with a smaller, washbowl style, replace the tub with a deep one with jets, maybe, and make it a really luxorious room. That's the third distant project most likely.
Our after-basement project is the kitchen so we discussed options for that... from the bare minimum to the add counterspace option. And then we even looked at patio furniture for the patio we might someday build.
Poor Big'ol.
Whoa! Did the wind and ice bring that tree down? The roots must have been saturated before the storm.
We watched an episode of Futureweapons tonight and I thought about you. They were at White Sands testing the THAAD. Most kewl!
What kind of piano did you get. We bought an electronic piano several years ago.
It's a Petrof upright. Walnut finish. Has a good feel to it. Very rich sound.
We've been thinking about options for the countertops in the kitchen. We'd planned to do concrete, but since so many other things have popped up, that we didn't expect to have to do, we're looking for more time saving options, that are not also prohibitively expensive. We'd looked online at doityourselfgranite.com, but even that was more than we wanted to spend. We'd thought about granite tiles, but the ones we saw at Home Depot were only granite laminated onto a ceramic base; they weren't through and through granite, so we couldn't figure out a good edging plan for it.
I joined the DIY network online forum, and did a search for granite tile. One of the posters suggested The Tile Shop and mentioned that it sold granite tiles that were 24x24! That would cover the full depth of the counter, and require a LOT fewer grout lines. I checked it out, and they even sell countertop edgings to match! And they have the granite that I love, Juparana, but is in the most expensive level of granite, in slab form. All totalled, using the tiles would cost about half of what even the cheapest slab granite would cost. So I'm going to learn tiling by doing the kitchen floor, then we'll get to the countertop.
I'm thinking about counters too. That's my number 2 priority of kitchen improvement, after adding the dishwasher and ahead of the cabinets. I just loooove how Corian looks but slabs of stone are nice too. I've seen some nice tile counters but I don't like the grouting myself and I don't like how hard and cold they feel to me. So I'm not sure. I want better than laminate and corian is so nice... and I really want a built in sink.
Is it one of the high back studio models? SirKit was thinking about one of those, but then found the Panasonic electronic one. He was interested in Midi capability, but still wanted a great rich piano sound.
After this project, you'll never take your kitchen for granite again. [Sorry, it's a lousy pun, but someone had to do it.]
We'll have to visit with Corin while we're there, too!
We haven't had ice... that was the December wind storm. Gusts of 60-70 in this area.... we think. A lot of big trees came out of the ground... in some areas 25% of the trees came down.
*snort*
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