TV Set
The last post seems so long ago, you’d think that nothing has been done in the meantime, but it has. Finger twiddling, head scratching, procrastination, and avoidance… These are essential abilities in constant need of maintenance and development. There was also a trip to Regina in there, which goes a long way in explaining the pause, a garden to put in, and a swarm of aphids to contend with.
From whence I left off… I was muddling about with what I was going to do in the kitchen area as I readied it for carpet. Smooth edge (carpet tack strip) is both glued and nailed onto concrete, so the edge tiles had to go. They came up so easily, I ended up getting rid of them all. It’s always better to get rid of the old, and the smell that came up once they were removed was musty and old. Good riddance.
I was caught between carpeting the whole thing again, or small sections of tile. Should I go just under the fridge and stove, or 5 feet out from the cabinets, or what? In the end, the light went on, and I decided to tile the whole shebang, and add area rugs where I wanted them. It might be cold under foot in the winter, but this solved the majority of the problems. Read more “TV Set”