Saturday was beautiful and cold after the snow on Friday (more on the way potentially – a series of Alberta Clippers are on their way – which is normally moisture starved storms from Alberta but they appear to potentially be meeting up with wet low pressure fronts coming up from the Carolinas – but that is another future day!)<\/p>\n
We went to Fitzgerald Tile in Woburn, and while they were large, their selection was all relatively the same, and they only do ceramic tiles. \u00a0We left feeling a bit underwhelmed. \u00a0So we tried Upstairs Downstairs in Acton<\/a> – \u00a0they are pretty small, but have a very large selection and it is extremely varied. \u00a0Another thing I liked is that they are not afraid of color! \u00a0The owner helped us and she was very good. \u00a0Decisions were made on some fronts – though she insisted that I wait for the kitchen counter top be installed around the sink before I choose the back splash. She thinks it needs to pop – be an art statement just as our house vinyl flooring are which we got done by Glasgow floor specialists<\/a> around the house in the same pattern.\u00a0\u00a0I like this idea on one hand, but I also am leery – since I have a multi-decade history of not bothering to hang up my art work once I move into a place and I am afraid of losing momentum…<\/p>\n But decisions:<\/p>\n My original plan was to have the kitchen back splash the same as the bathroom – but both the designer and my parent’s thought that was bad idea – so we are holding off. \u00a0This could lead to all sorts of mad ideas from me (like I woke up in the middle of the night and thought of a high density LED video wall, with rotating photos, behind a sealed glass cover). \u00a0More to come here<\/p>\n Below – some google.com grabbed generic pictures of African Slate to give you an idea of what this will look like. \u00a0We think it will go well with the planned Red Oak floor (a decision we made Friday while talking with Paul)<\/p>\n\n\t\t\n