We're still here...

but we're still not done. Although the City says we are. In other words, we are "street legal", with just finish work from now on. L has since built little shelves for these to sit on. I think it will be great for the holidays, we can put poinsettias here.

We've been mostly shopping for rugs, locally, online, with "eh" results. One place in particular made me feel like I was buying a used car, high pressure. "Take a couple rugs home and see how they look in your house." Once it's in your house, they know they've got you. No thank you. I had maybe a dozen samples, but these are a few that I liked. They did have an "educational" display of how some rugs are done.

Pantry is essentially done. Sorting needs to be tidied up a bit, but I *love* not having to schlep downstairs for a can of tomatoes, bag of rice, roll of paper towels. This and the sideboard in Dining Area essentially turns a kitchen with a small/medium footprint into a pretty decent size.

We did make some progress on final touches for kitchen. Ordered the backsplash tile - about a dozen 3x3 little celtic knotwork tiles that will be placed approximately 12 inches apart (with 90% of the tile being ivory/bisque plain square tile), and then a large centerpiece for behind the stove. We are hoping the color will be close to the checked paint chip on this sample, and close to matching Babs and the clock.

We also have ordered a stained glass insert for the corner cabinet. Pretty cool how they can change the colors out and photoshop it into a pix we send them. The green border will actually be darker than shown. Their visuals assume pieces are backlighted, but ours will not be.

The tile and the glass should both be showing up early to mid-December. The kitchen will then be done. Oh, except for paint. Damn.

Anyway, not too much going on, more visuals in a couple weeks.