We went grocery shopping and visited a few tile stores to see if we could find something affordable for our kitchen backsplash.
Answer: no.
Damn!
Looks like more subway tiles... we investigated a glass backsplash, but the price is still the same: $1200+. Since we're already so far over-budget, we'll compromise and get some subways. We'll probably live.
Pictured below is Iain on Saturday while we figured out our upstairs closet configuration. We measured our own closets in the rental and figured out what we think we'll need in the new house.
The closet is going to be a freestanding structure so we're investigating closet companies -- for those of you who immediately leap to your California Closet / Broadcast News / SATC fantasties, you're not alone. This, however, is going to be a basic closet with some shelves.
Boring: the freestanding closet was a big discussion when we first started renovations -- we didn't want to build a closet for fear it would affect resale in case a future owner wanted to use the "dressing room" space for an office or baby room. But you know what? We need to live there, too, so we're revamping a lot of our "resale vs what we actually want" decisions.
(This late-in-the-day decision has left us with a perfect and now useless cable, power, and phone jack right where the closet will go. Brilliant!)
We finally nailed down a good design which I incorporated into Excel and emailed to our closet dude. Done!
Cut to four hours later and we're at Flax in Browns Bay for a late lunch.
We love this place because of its proximity to the beach. It's like being in Miami or LA or... New Zealand!
We ordered some fish cakes instead of something good like the burger and fries. Alas... trying to be healthy. I should've returned mine - it was vile. Iain didn't mind his.
After our 2pm lunch we headed for home for a quiet afternoon of laundry and books.
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