Per Suzanne's Request

We received some questions about our choices and why we did certain things.  Aha - you've figured us out!

Regarding the guest bathroom, more pictures might help.  The rock comes flat, polished and on mesh - ready to go.  What I didn't visualize was how much grout would be on the floor and how uneven it would be.  Mostly what didn't occur to me was the cleaning nightmare it would be.  To try to talk me out of pulling up the floor they applied a sealer that enhances the stone and darkens the grout as well as seals.   Well, to me it wasn't that big an improvement.  Still will be hard to clean and there is just too much grout.  Should have remembered this from mosaics.

Guest bath counter.  Backsplash still not complete.

Bath floor.  In the center by the left hand corner of the cabinet is the enhanced portion (god forbid they should have done the whole thing!).  While it looks better enhanced it doesn't look good, in my opinion.







Close up of the difference.







Another view of shower stall.  Seagrass limestone, a double row of glass tile as an accent, rock on the floor.

Accent tile.







I'm trying to arrange the furniture.  The two seater piece is supposed to be in the living room with the sectional.  I think the woman that looked at our floor plan and measured everything was on drugs!  Today we tried moving the two seater up to the level above the main living room.  Not liking it there.  The goldish colored thing you see on our metal table is the ceiling fixture for that room.  Me thinks that was a mistake too.

The two stools are where the two seater should go.  Looks more open to me now but have to play with it some more.  Note:  still need flooring in here.






New chair designed by Candice Olsen for some furniture company.  I love this chair!!











Suz, if you'll notice you can see both edged of the Ceaserstone here (could've been a better photo).  Notice the bar counter extends out without the support of a cabinet.  Same is true for part of the island in the kitchen.  Because of the way it is structured we had to have a wider edge on the counter material.  I had chose just a simple polished edge (you can see that on the lower counter where the cooktop is).  Two reasons - 1. it's less expensive to have that edge (no fabrication, just polishing) and 2. it's more contemporary - our taste.  Cambria kitchen had that edge as well.  No one seemed concerned that we had both edges in the same room and I think it looks fine.


Better view of the differences.









All for now.  Happy Sunday.