I'm hitting the final stages of the office tiling. This is where I expected to hit a few snags, and I did.
One really bad thing about procrastinating on finishing a job like, for example, knitting a sweater, is that if you pick that project back up and find you don't have enough yarn--good luck finding the same dye lot. And so it is with tiling. I had to match grout and tile. The grout, eh, linen is a common color and even if it's a tiny bit off, as the floor ages a minor color difference will not show. And if it's really annoying, I can probably find something that will stain or otherwise color it. Tile ... that's more difficult.
They'd just put the bullnose in the size and color I needed (3x10, almond romance) on clearance. In July. All gone. All of it. But, they had some lovely 10x12, in the same color, with a pretty emblem in the center, still available (also on clearance.) Clearance doesn't mean savings, alas. It was pretty expensive compared to the 3x10. Not only that, but I have to bevel a bullnose onto the tile and then paint the bevel the correct color. I'm hoping to find some enamel that will work on ceramic and be pretty durable. The only bonus to this is that I'll have twenty really neat 6x10 tile with emblems that I plan to use on an outdoor project in concert with the remaining twelve whole floor tiles I have left over and some tile we inherited from a family member downsizing into a new house.
The floor tile I bought plenty of when I initially measured the office project. Why I didn't buy another box of bullnose, I'll never know. Oh wait, I remember now. I thought they were kind of expensive and I wanted to wait until the next paycheck, and besides, I wanted to re-measure the remaining wall to get a close estimate of how many I'd need.
I'm reminding myself not to do that sort of foolish thinking ever again. I saved zilcho dollars and cost myself probably $20 over what I would have paid for the right tile. Ugh!
I've never seen a zucchini like this before. Ooo la la, baby! It's probably a pretty common mutation, but it's my first one so I think it's neat.
I fed both of these to the goats. They're oversized. My zucchini plants are producing big fruit this year--10-12" still has tiny, immature seeds--but these are just a little too big to be really yummy.
The goats liked them, though.
2 comments:
I so hear you on this one! When we moved in we had this awful white pebbled tile in the kitchen that was done, except for the edges! aargh! Project never finished, and I hate it enough that it will NEVER BE finished. LOL I've been pricing tile for over 2 years now! ttptog
That's why I make it a point never to stop a project in the middle no matter what.
No, you did NOT just see my nose grow. (Well, maybe a little...)
Seriously, though...that's almost as bad as laying down vinyl flooring only to find out afterward that the plank floor you covered up was made of expensive, extra high quality hardwood that someone had given your in-laws as a gift decades before. Definitely cranium-against-wall-repeat material.
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