Crystal! Hey Crystal!

We will definitely do the undermount sink when we get to that point. Right now I'm thinking that will be September sometime.

Tomorrow evening I'm starting to paint in the 5 year old's room (giving her a tinkerbell theme) and will also rip out the carpet. Saturday will finish painting (4 colors total - ick) and perhaps put the floor down.

I don't feel like a boulder is converging upon me.....I more like a man with a completely torn up house and no end in sight. Wait....that's exactly what I am.

You need a trip to DL. Next weekish. :cheers:

A house I held open a couple weeks ago had great counters... they used granite/travertine (can't remember which) tiles instead of a continuous piece of stone. It's much less expensive, and frankly, the 12" tiles look great. Plus, by using the larger tiles, you don't screw up your work surface.

Yeah, Morrigoon - we're considering tile as well. When I was at home depot over the weekend I was looking more at the Corian stuff....the $51/sq ft that I thought was the price was the installation charge. ??? Yikes. I'm thinking tile will be the way to go for sure, because I've seen some like you have that look great and have very minimal grout.

Over the weekend I got my 5 year old's tinkerbell room painting done and the flooring down. Not a bad first attempt at the flooring, and it looks good, but I'm glad I didn't start downstairs. There's a definite learning curve and having a couple (minor) booboos hidden upstairs in a bedroom is definitely preferable.

And the say you can't see into the future.

It's right here.

We are meeting with a design/build firm this week. The plan is to bump out the back of the house to expand the kitchen (on the second floor) and make an in-law suite on the first. Of course once you do that..... Apparently we need to improve "the flow" between the family and dining rooms (what is it with women and flow?) replace all the windows, etc.. etc... On the up side I'm trying to work my obsessive home theater plans into all this.

Wow! An upper floor expansion! That's gotta be tough. What is below where you're expanding? We looked at doing that with our master bedroom but decided it wasn't worth it because of the structural strengthening we'd have had to do under it.

Yup, I guess I'll have to put off that Club33 membership for at least another year.

Currently there is backyard below where we are expanding. Which is why we are also going to bump out the first floor to match the kitchen and make room for the in-law suite. Between us we have three parents and it's a pretty good shot at least one of them will be coming to stay in the near future.

On the plus side my new theater room will share a wall with the in-law suite :evil:

Here's a pic of an undermounted sink.



You can wipe the counter down right into the sink. Our sink seems to have a large top area and it's less convenient having to wipe around it.

That is nice. I'll keep that in mind for the future. Thanks!

3 weekend have passed, 1100 ft of carpet and padding and all the furniture moving that goes with that is done, all 4 bedrooms have the new flooring down, and I still have the hallway, a set of stairs, and a living room to do. So today while I working on our bedroom, my wife says "Ty Penington builds a whole house in a week. What's taking you so long?"

Ho ho, he he, ha ha. What a laugh.

The end is in sight though. Next weekend the hallway and living room, the following weekend the stairs. I am tired.

Budgetwise going to have to hold off on the new counters and refacing of the cabinets for 6 months or so.