The Renovation Rule Book:
Rule 19: Telephone calls always come when you are atop a ladder with a loaded paint-roller. They are always a wrong number
Has it really been four months since I wrote anything about our kitchen renovation?
(kitchen reno)Well that is more than likely because close to
nothing has happened in the past four months. Since November we've been slowly (s-l-o-w-l-y) thinking about what we really want. I'd like something timeless, plain, even a little rustic.
I have this image (taken from a magazine) on my vision board. It captures the essense of what I'd love in a kitchen: simple white wooden lower cabinets, natural materials (where possible) uncluttered and functional
One of the things I am having to re-consider is the ceramic tile countertop I wanted to create. I make several batches of pita bread each week which involves a lot of dough kneading and rolling. That won't work very well on a tile countertop. So now I'm back to square one considering countertop options.
What we have done: We reconfigured one of the lower cabinets in January and have determined the layout of all the lower cabinets, a couple still need to be built. This week I plastered the far wall (where the oven is ) to create an old world feel of a rough plaster wall.
Plastering the wall was easy and the results are exactly what I was hoping for.
I used LePage's Ploystipple. It is safe and odour free and washes up with soap and water, in addition it is quite inexpensive 8 litres was about $35. (check the container for coverage, it depends on how thick you want to apply it. For my application I could have covered about 100 sq.ft.)
There was a lot of damage to the backsplash area where I had removed old ceramic tiles, but the Polystipple had enough texture to conceal the lumps and bumps. Wooden trim will cover the gaps around the window.
Hopefully my next kitchen reno update will be a little sooner than this one was.
Thank you for stopping in at My Turquoise Kettle Life.
Wishing you a wonderful day,
Sandra
