chipping away at the checklist!





my list



My "to-do" list needed some attention, so off I went to Camano. The house was bustling with activity, cedar shakes going on the outside, tilework in the bathroom, trimming out the cabinets. Our neighbor Gregory says there's always something happening, which makes me feel great!

Since I am a visual person, I do much better planning something I can actually see.  I decided to figure out our cabinet hardware room-by-room.  Painful, but thorough... Check one off!

The accent tiles for the master bathroom arrived  on Tuesday from Fireclay Tile in California. The tiles are beautiful!

One slight problem,  the grouping I had in mind was too big to fit in the 12 inch opening in the shower tile. After putting our heads together, Eric, Jim, and I figured out a way to frame them with the wall tile.

Prototype

This is the way it will look.  Hmmm, seems to resemble the doodle I did on my list earlier this morning.....

Check two off!

The beach was scoured by last week's storm, and  a nice layer of sand was deposited. We love the rare times that the beach is like this. A line of debris marked the extent of the wash-up .

The shakes give the house a real East Coast feel

Back to the list, I need to pick grout colors, not too hard except where a line of one color tile meets a line of a contrasting color. That will require a 'visual' with grout samples.

The kitchen countertop is recycled glass made locally here in town. The sample looks great.                                 Let's go with it!                             Check off a third!

Three out of five- not too bad!