One year ago today we closed on our 9 acres. I knew 2012 had the potential for a crazy year I didn't anticipate how crazy though!
I believe that pine tree next to us is now center of our circle drive.
Of course tonight we were busy working on the house. Pete is trying to finish up the last few things on his ToDo list before the painters arrive on Monday. Have I mentioned how thankful I am that we are not painting.?
We chose Chris Batts to paint our home. His team had just finished painting our friends Bart and Kristen Kruzich's new home. They gave his business a really big thumbs up. So far they have been very accommodating to these Do It Yourselfers!
Pete made our handrails and they looked pretty nice when he showed them to me, but now with a coat of stain and varnish, ooh la la...
Love It!!!
Pete made our handrails and they looked pretty nice when he showed them to me, but now with a coat of stain and varnish, ooh la la...
Pete & I loved our locker system we built, but thought it was missing something so we decided to add the crown at the top. They are primed except the crown.
Now for our master bath saga!
It all started early this fall when I helped my friend Lindsey with tile for her master shower. She chose this stone, and once you touch it you are hooked. I assumed it was out of my budget for our shower, so I didn't go there.
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| Lindsey's Shower |
Didn't she do a great job? The tile on the lower portion of the shower is actually stone and it is beautiful.
She must have had a really great tile guy to layout that pattern and make it look so great!
I'm not sure what details I should bore you with now about our shower? It started with a quote from a contact I had from my National City days. His quote for labor only for the shower was more than my entire budget. After shopping a few other tile and carpet stores I chose to worked with Wenke's and received a quote from them trying to replicate Lindsey's tile in a ceramic (to save money) and was still over budget. Then I got a quote from my counter guy to do solid surface (Corian) on the walls of the shower, back to way over budget.
This brought me to the beginning of December and I was beginning to not care what we put in our master shower, see even interior designers get stuck! I just knew I didn't want the master shower to hold us up from getting an occupancy permit and sometimes tile has a long lead time, so I needed to figure it out.
To this point I had purchased all the tile for the house (outside of the laundry room) from Wenke's Tile and Carpet and really enjoyed my experience there, the only glitch was it was getting cold, we spend a ton of time at this house, and I WANTED an indoor toilet. The tile was available for all the rooms I had picked out, but their tile guy wasn't available until December 19th to start the install. If I used their tile guy, I probably wouldn't have indoor plumbing for Christmas. Never thought indoor plumbing would be on my Christmas List!
So, I decided to ask Lindsey's tile guy Tim Moran about his availability and install price. He was reasonable in price and available (because he works 12+ hour days, 7 days a week) to start right away. I was sold!
As I posted before he did the laundry room, kids bathes and mudroom.
I gave him my sob story about my master bath and I mentioned I might want to travel to Grand Rapids and check-out Miles Distributing's showroom where Lindsey purchased her tile. So, sick and coughing, coughing, coughing I headed to Grand Rapids to meet with their designer Bethany.
I probably spent an hour walking around the showroom trying to pull something together. Finally, we discussed Lindsey's stone for her shower and how much I loved it. Her showroom had just received in two new sample boards of stone similar to Lindsey's. This particular one was a plank style and I loved it.
This is what we pulled together...
I came right home and picked out this counter top that pulls out the colors of the sliced stones. Phew, I finally nailed it and the best part, I will come in right at my budget.
The floor was ready for install and this past Thursday afternoon Tim was going to start. Our painters were working on another job, so I decided to take Thursday morning and finalize all my paint colors. The last room I worked in was our master bath. I laid everything out including my paint color and I didn't like it. It was too matchy, matchy with the tile floor. I thought, "wow, what was I thinking when I picked this out?" Since I spent most of December sick, I thought I must of had an off color day and went downstairs to get my paint samples to choose another color when I saw the sample board I had brought home from the showroom. I stopped dead in my tracks! This was not the same tile I had upstairs, just hours away from being installed. I brought the sample board upstairs and placed a tile on it.
Here is the back of the sample with the name and board number.
Someone at the Elon Tile and Stone placed the wrong label on the back of the sample board. Their new stones are beachwood and driftwood. The board I brought home is beachwood with a driftwood sticker on the back. You can check-put their website and clearly see the mistake. http://www.elontile.com/collections/marble-onyx/driftwood-vein-cut/
We are still getting to the bottom of this. I'm hoping they will expedite the correct floor, as I mentioned earlier, I don't want the tile in the master bathroom to hold us up from getting an occupancy permit. I'll keep ya posted.
Here's a sneak peek at Tim working on the shower today. I'll post more about the shower soon!
She must have had a really great tile guy to layout that pattern and make it look so great!
I'm not sure what details I should bore you with now about our shower? It started with a quote from a contact I had from my National City days. His quote for labor only for the shower was more than my entire budget. After shopping a few other tile and carpet stores I chose to worked with Wenke's and received a quote from them trying to replicate Lindsey's tile in a ceramic (to save money) and was still over budget. Then I got a quote from my counter guy to do solid surface (Corian) on the walls of the shower, back to way over budget.
This brought me to the beginning of December and I was beginning to not care what we put in our master shower, see even interior designers get stuck! I just knew I didn't want the master shower to hold us up from getting an occupancy permit and sometimes tile has a long lead time, so I needed to figure it out.
To this point I had purchased all the tile for the house (outside of the laundry room) from Wenke's Tile and Carpet and really enjoyed my experience there, the only glitch was it was getting cold, we spend a ton of time at this house, and I WANTED an indoor toilet. The tile was available for all the rooms I had picked out, but their tile guy wasn't available until December 19th to start the install. If I used their tile guy, I probably wouldn't have indoor plumbing for Christmas. Never thought indoor plumbing would be on my Christmas List!
So, I decided to ask Lindsey's tile guy Tim Moran about his availability and install price. He was reasonable in price and available (because he works 12+ hour days, 7 days a week) to start right away. I was sold!
As I posted before he did the laundry room, kids bathes and mudroom.
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| Fabulous mudroom tile! |
I probably spent an hour walking around the showroom trying to pull something together. Finally, we discussed Lindsey's stone for her shower and how much I loved it. Her showroom had just received in two new sample boards of stone similar to Lindsey's. This particular one was a plank style and I loved it.
This is what we pulled together...
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| Paint and vanity sample |
Sliced stone for the shower floor, 20 x 20 dark gray for the shower walls, with a metallic pencil rail and a textured ceramic for the upper portion.
I decided to not use the stone in the shower and to use it on the floor.
The floor was ready for install and this past Thursday afternoon Tim was going to start. Our painters were working on another job, so I decided to take Thursday morning and finalize all my paint colors. The last room I worked in was our master bath. I laid everything out including my paint color and I didn't like it. It was too matchy, matchy with the tile floor. I thought, "wow, what was I thinking when I picked this out?" Since I spent most of December sick, I thought I must of had an off color day and went downstairs to get my paint samples to choose another color when I saw the sample board I had brought home from the showroom. I stopped dead in my tracks! This was not the same tile I had upstairs, just hours away from being installed. I brought the sample board upstairs and placed a tile on it.
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| What do you think? This was NOT the same tile. No wonder I didn't like my paint choice. I thought oh no, the designer ordered the wrong tile. I grabbed my project binder with all my quotes, my quote said Driftwood, the back of the sample board said driftwood, no I had the correct tile on my quote. Then I tried to reason with myself, stone is a naturally occurring material, there will be color variations from piece to piece. I knew better, this is the wrong stone. I called Bethany and she did some investigating |
Someone at the Elon Tile and Stone placed the wrong label on the back of the sample board. Their new stones are beachwood and driftwood. The board I brought home is beachwood with a driftwood sticker on the back. You can check-put their website and clearly see the mistake. http://www.elontile.com/collections/marble-onyx/driftwood-vein-cut/
We are still getting to the bottom of this. I'm hoping they will expedite the correct floor, as I mentioned earlier, I don't want the tile in the master bathroom to hold us up from getting an occupancy permit. I'll keep ya posted.
Here's a sneak peek at Tim working on the shower today. I'll post more about the shower soon!
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