Since the basement is not gonna happen before my parents come to visit we deceided to convert the sunroom into the temporary bedroom. Took out the ugly green carpet, painted the walls with leftover chocolate froth and place some nice looking vinyl tile from Armstrong on top of the wooden floor. Curtains from IKEA.

Next weekend laborday weekend will be a nice weekend with good mattress sales. We have an old dresser that i will stain this week, since i have enough stain leftover from staining the diningroom. Find some nice lighting and the room should be all ready.

Since the basement has to wait we started doing all the other stuff first before my parents come and visit us. First thing the diningroom baseboards are painted and i thought it would look better if we could bring back the wood. Since stripping is a timeconsuming process i looked into wood graining. To test it I bought some MinWax Stain Gel (Oak) and a wood comb.

Process takes 24 hours to dry and then we can apply the stain color to get the correct color depth. Its a messy job but it looks pretty good and i hope to finish this next week.

Here is the end result.

Finally today the mosiac tile came in from Cooltiles.com. Extremly pleased with how the tile looks.

Saturday tileday.

Today i went to Lowes to buy the neccecary tools and materials; white, thinset adhesive, nonsanded grout. Installation tools include a 3/16′ X 5/32′ V-notched trowel, a piece of wood such as a short piece of 2 x 4 to be used as a beating block, a grout sponge, a rubberized grout float, a power drill, a mixing attachment.

The kitchen looks so nice and clean. Tomorrow grouting!

Rest of the week i was to busy to do to much work at the house. I spent some time at Ikea and found this window frosting to put on windows. Since our frontdoor had these ugly shades i thought it would be good ideas to replace these with some cheap frosting. This would bring more daylight in the livingroom and privacy in the evening.

Same week i ordered some cheap diningroom furniture from Target. Yes Target, since my parents are coming in a few weeks i wanted to have a quick fix on furniture and after some research Target has the best deal with free shipping. I’ll ad some links later. Eventually we’ll get some nicer diningroom furniture in a lighter color.

That same week the JCPenny Shavannah roman shades came in ($17 each and free shipping who can beat that price)

This weekend the kitchen tile should be coming in, can’t wait to start tiling!
Oh and i updated the ToDo List.

After i bought all materials to remodel the basement we had a leak in the main water supply. Water was flooding the basement and i had to call United Water to shut off the main water supply. To my suprise this took them 3 hours to come to the house! I was happy the leak was small and i could contain the water. Next day we tried to find a plumber to do an emergency repair, which was another problem, but eventually we found a kickass plumber. This and that we had to wait that same week for inspectors to approve the Central Air installation the remodeling is scheduled for a later date.