another productive week

There was a lot of new stuff happening this week at our house. We finished installing our kitchen cabinets with the invaluable help of our friend Buc.

On Monday Peter and Bridgette from Speedheat arrived to begin installing our all-electric radiant floor heating system.



They threaded the wires that were going to be under tile by hand.






They used pre-made mats to go under the wood floors and then covered them with underlayment, which is what you see on the bottom half of this picture:

They are smiling because they have just finished wiring our entire house. And we really enjoyed having them here this week! We can't wait to feel that lovely warmth oozing up between our toes.

Peter and Bridgette from Speed Heat

Our tile installers began working this week too. The stuff that they have done so far looks wonderfully clean and precise. I'll put up some pictures in a few days.

Tomorrow Doug is going to be levelling the floor in the piano room and I will begin installing the floating wood floor. Our house is getting less and less dusty, which mean less and less vacuuming for me!

Next week the tile work will continue as will the floor installation, and the countertops are due to be installed on Thursday. Yaay! Things are really shaping up.

Tile

We finally selected our tile yesterday! I'm thrilled to be done with that. The floor tile might start going in the week after next. We'll see. Here are some pictures - the colors are not as dark or as bright as they appear here:

For the back hallway, we ordered 12x12 squares of Brazilian Green slate.

The bathroom floor tile is 2 inch octagons with little gray diamonds and that is a sample of our cabinet doors.

The walls will have subway tiles on them and we're going to have a little beaded stripe (like the top one) in Storm Gray going all around the room.

The other bathroom will have unglazed 1 inch white hexagons, which actually look beige. It's a nice gentle contrast with the white tub and toilet and the dark brown cabinet. The grout will be the same brown as the cabinets so the floor will look like a honeycomb.