Um Deb, it’s not Friday

By eastsidenest on April 19, 2013

Yesterday was about installing and placing cans/pendants and starting the rewiring for the new intercom system. The guys at Northern Lights worked to pull wires, place rough-in cans and of course run more wire- CAT 5 I think.

Meanwhile I was on a critical path item to order my tile and to define a pattern. OF COURSE it can’t be a traditional pattern- it had to be all mine. I must say that Dez Hall at Rhode Island Tile Distributors is superb. This guy has put up with me taking cases of tile home to actually layout patterns to see what might work. Yesterday I defined and settled on the pattern and had my tile guy Lloyd Crompton check it all out. Dez gave me about twenty odd pieces of 18×18 and 12×24 tiles so that I could take them home and show Lloyd exactly what I was thinking. It worked out great. I’ve included a photo of the layout (this is not the tile, just a rough idea of the pattern). For the tile I am actually aiming for it to disappear on the floor- looking to do a minimalist low variant color/grout in Verde (Pella Windows are Deep Olive so transition and tie from outside work is goal). My countertops will be so dramatic that I need a lovely backdrop canvas to showcase both the bamboo and the counters.

The tiles are an environmentally green engineered stone called Kyoto in Verde. I’m using both 18×18 and 12×24 tiles. We’re doing a heated floor and these tiles are quite thick so Lloyd is working his magic to make a seamless transition between the new open spaces. Thanks to Dez and Lloyd for helping to get me to a superb solution…(and my sister-in-law and brother who I dragged to the granite place to see a match against the quartzite!).

So anyway, in the midst of all this yesterday and poor Tom getting stuck in Baltimore, I asked if I could get the guys coffee at DD. I said, my treat it’s Friday. OK…um, it wasn’t Friday and I didn’t quite realize that until I was on my way to the airport to get Tom…as my contractor Wayne put it- “I was dialed in to a different area code :)”