Kitchen complete...

Well, almost 3 months to the day we started, the kitchen is complete:)

Our freshly cleaned and cleaned out fridge was moved into place this morning and I keep wandering around with a rag in hand wiping off a speck here and a crumb there....  but to get to completion there were two major obstacles  we had to tackle this week - finish the tiles and one more coat of paint.  Doug did the painting, because that's what he mostly does and is fussy about it but never quite happy because of the minute imperfections:) I think it looks just fine.  Another thing - he say's the colour is green while I 'know' it is yellow with a green tinge to it.... interesting how we see things differently.

I finally decided I would tackle the tiles.  Laying them all out according to the two places they would go I found that I needed to cut 17 tiles!  How to do this was the question - did it really require at trip out of the city to use my sister's wet saw.  I decided to ask the stone mason working on the neighbour's fireplace.  He suggested I try scoring the cut line with an exacto knife and breaking it - if that didn't work he would come over later and cut them for me:)

Ingenuity and a strong hand conquered the tiles! I was thankful for the 'just do it' mantra I'd learned from my Yorkshire Granma and my 'anything can be done with a little ingenuity' attitude I inherited from my Scandinavian father.  Holding a putty knife along the cut line I scored it with the exacto knife - then with the putty knife held upright in the scored line I gave it a few gentle whacks with the hammer and then a harder whack and there you have it - a tile neatly cut into two pieces.

After cementing them in place and letting them set over night, yesterday, I stirred up the grout and messed with it for hours!!! but I think the tiles finally turned out okay.

While I finished wiping off the grit Doug painted and there you have it - after a good night's sleep we awoke this morning to a renovated kitchen!  It's not large but it is certainly adequate and pleasant - and so absolutely beautifully warm in colour, especially when the sun shines in, that I am loath to put up any type of window covering.

com·plete/kəmˈplēt/

Adjective:	Having all the necessary or appropriate parts.
Verb:	Finish making or doing.
Synonyms:	adjective.  perfect - entire - whole - total - absolute - full verb.  finish - end - terminate - conclude - accomplish