So we have a new kitchen floor! Thought you'd want to see the progression to it some. Here's pictures from the week that just was.
The floor to be gotten rid of. The tile in the breakfast nook (above) is what the house came with, and that in the kitchen (below) the result of an incomplete replacement project ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger did with her starter husband. This picture's from last weekend, as I was unloading everything I could from the room yet before I moved the Tri-Zone pinball game out, to bunnyhugger's wonder. Don't tell her how I did it!
The end of the first day. They've covered the whole thing with some kind of backing board that'll be a nice stable foundation for the new tiles and that, we hope, we'll never see again. You might be able to make out, in the upper right, the metal railing put around our return air vent. This was flush with the old floor but now is just enough of a drop to really catch your attention.
And here's the end of the second day. Rather than move our fridge and stove into another room --- as we'd been ready for them to do --- they just laid down tile around that spot, and then came back the next day after these tiles had set to finish that job.
And the end of the third day, with tiling put down in the remainder of the kitchen. The cement is dry at this point, so we could walk safely on it, but we weren't ready to move the fridge back and anyway they were going to do that themselves.
And finished! Thursday they put grout into the spaces between the tiles and finished the job off, so it looks like we really want it to.
The new kitchen as seen from inside the breakfast nook, before I moved the Tri-Zone pinball machine back in. Again, no spoiling the secret! Anyway the counter is the next project, slated for Tuesday.
Trivia: The word ``utter'' first appeared in Middle English meaning outer, as in the opposite of inner. ``Outer'' was coined around 1380 to make a word that clearly had a relationship to ``out''; with ``utter'' then deprived of a purpose, it attached (around 1412) to meaning ``the utmost''. Source: Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning, Sol Steinmetz.
Currently Reading: Modesty Blaise: The Girl In The Iron Mask, Peter O'Donnell, Enric Badia Romero. A gift from bunnyhugger's father, because he quite likes the comic strip and seems distressed that I never read it (it was never in a newspaper around me and ended before reading the story comics became my most successful online aspect) and also this way he could buy a Modesty Blaise book but tell himself it's not because he likes buying stuff. Anyway, yeah, have to say, this has some nice lively energy to it. Of course, reading a story comic all at once instead of day-by-day generally improves the pacing.
