Happy Thanksgiving! This year I am thankful that I beat my neighbor to the finish in the great ground floor renovation: New kitchen; redone ...

Note to self and other interested parties : Never, ever, leave the State or even the house so the flooring guy can sand and seal the floors...

The new hardwood floor is in and will soon be sanded and sealed. The electric cables that came up through the platform a foot from the wall ...

A few items on the punch list were taken care of late yesterday: The inferior hardwood flooring was hauled away The mud room door was painte...

on the kitchen renovation... and my sanity. Yesterday was not a great day on the house renovation front. Not as bad as the previous week whe...

Because re-doing the kitchen and mud-room wasn't stressful enough I decided to replace the 1970s dining room deep-pile, formerly cream, ...

The hardwood floor is down in the kitchen and I spent much of the weekend playing with the placement of the island. In order for it go back ...

So far so wood...

Help ! Now we've decided to go for it, the only thing holding up the kitchen renovation is the flooring choice. I've gone over it a ...

One of my recent posts, on Svarowski crystal flooring at the Domotex 2008 show provoked a whole "how do they do that?" storm so I...

I can't believe I missed this one. As you know, I love the bling and the glitz , so what could make me happier than Swarovski Crystal f...

Just as I'm making plans to take out another terrazzo shower base, this time in the master bath, I find that terrazzo is hot again. The...

Last week we had the carpets steam cleaned to get rid of the kitty pee and poop stains, and it worked fairly well but the cat must have snuc...

after before One of the big advantages in replacing the psychedelic seventies shag carpets with hardwood and bamboo floors is that when you ...

Autumn has been very pretty this year. We have had a couple of cold days but on the whole it has been mild and misty. I have been out diggin...

I finally made a decision last night and ordered more redwood to go through the rear hallway. I decided that it would tie in well with the s...

The working week is nearly over and we are so far behind the installer's most generous estimates that it's not remotely funny anymor...

Ha ha indeed. We didn't get any flooring down yesterday as the wood is too hard!!! Apparently what Steven chose was harder than Brazilia...

Hurrah, we have bamboo flooring in all the bedrooms ; the furniture is back in place; the beds are made; pictures have been hung and it all ...

We're drying out and, apart from a wet patch on one wall that is probably caused by the air-conditioning system, Steven's office is ...