In which I become an HGTV fanatic...
Apr. 24th, 2011 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalHappy Easter! I had a three day weekend, which means the parental units descended on Friday. We spent much of the weekend visiting Lumber Liquidators, Home Depot, Lowe's, the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, and various other home improvement stores, looking at flooring, tile, appliances, etc. for the new condo.
Our super-scientific method of choosing the right style of flooring:
As it turns out, though, Chelsea's pretty fickle, and I think she sat on every sample at some point, so we may have to resort to human decision-making. At least we know she'll probably like the wood floors.
Here's the tile I chose for the backsplash in the kitchen, along with different countertop samples. The one on the left is the countertop that's currently there. We're undecided whether we want to change it, but the tile seems to match all three pretty well:
I also bought this kick-ass rug for the living room, which looks like it will match my sofa pillows and general color scheme really well:
The pillows, for reference:
My mom also found me a cool wrought-iron kitchen shelf thingy at Habitat, which I would post a picture of, except it was spirited away back to my parents' house for some cleaning and possibly a coat of black paint.
Our super-scientific method of choosing the right style of flooring:
As it turns out, though, Chelsea's pretty fickle, and I think she sat on every sample at some point, so we may have to resort to human decision-making. At least we know she'll probably like the wood floors.
Here's the tile I chose for the backsplash in the kitchen, along with different countertop samples. The one on the left is the countertop that's currently there. We're undecided whether we want to change it, but the tile seems to match all three pretty well:
I also bought this kick-ass rug for the living room, which looks like it will match my sofa pillows and general color scheme really well:
The pillows, for reference:
My mom also found me a cool wrought-iron kitchen shelf thingy at Habitat, which I would post a picture of, except it was spirited away back to my parents' house for some cleaning and possibly a coat of black paint.
