The Chosen Ones

Here are the tiles I picked for my pebble shower spa bathroom.. I wasn't sure about these in the first place as I thought maybe I wanted something a bit more modern, but the marble tile has grown on me and I feel this will look like a classic with a twist - exactly how I like it.. The marble tiles will go on bathroom walls, the mosaic tile will go on the bathroom and shower floor, and the pebble tile will go on shower walls.

We also found the kitchen cabinets today! We we're going to seal the deal in the showroom where we found the cabinets closest to what we (I) wanted, but on the way there I spotted another showroom with the PERFECT cabinet style in the window. We walked in, showed our drawings and asked for an estimate. The cabinets were so perfect that I was sure they were going to be prohibitively expensive - and was so HAPPY when they were almost in the same price range as the cabinets we almost bought...which were ok, but not perfect. I felt very comfortable in the new showroom, the people were super nice, very professional and the cabinet style is what I have dreamed about. And, to top it of, these cabinets are eco-friendly bamboo - YAY!  The new guys will come and measure our kitchen tomorrow, and if all goes well, we will order our cabinets on Monday - I am very excited - I feel like a kid, I just want to jump up and down and clap!

Pebbles for my Private Spa

The master bathroom in our new house is very small. And right now, it is uglier than ugly (you can see for yourselves below). But when I am done with it, it will be my own private spa with a pebble-tile steam shower, aaaaahhh. I had this whole spa thing pictured in my head, so I thought that this is going to be easy, just go and pick out the materials to match the picture in my head.. Well, not so fast! There are millions of choices to choose from, beginning with the pebble tiles! Black, white, light gray, dark gray, green, pink, etc. I like the more natural look of the gray pebbles, but even in the gray family the choices are endless. What to choose????

This is the space that will be TRANSFORMED into BEAUTY and TRANQUILITY!!

Oh, and (yay!!) we get the keys to our new house on Monday night, which is when all this fun is going to BEGIN!