The toaster oven is here, but I can’t tell you about it because all I’m thinking about is tile. Backsplash tile. Oops. No, I’m also thinking about grout.
Gotta go. I’m sure there’s a blog I’ve missed that has the solution to my tile dilemmas.
a blog for kate and gracie and friends
Well, not really. The tile guy is coming back tomorrow to grout, but I’m tired of waiting to put pictures up. Other than the grout and painting the ceiling, our Kitchen Remodel 2010 is complete. It came in at just over $16,000. Yikes! I think this is a pretty decent price, though. We wanted to spend conservatively, but we were also replacing everything so costs add up…Cabinets, hardware, sink, faucet, four major appliances, countertops, tile and, of course, labor. We “saved” a bit on two things: (1) Home Depot ended up picking up the costs of the quartz backsplash since they called me difficult in an email and botched the edge of the countertop (savings of almost $300) and (2) Home Depot called us one day to pay off the balance remaining on the job (10% — that’s right, they make you put 90% BEFORE anything even starts) and said that if we paid it off that day, they’d knock $270 some off the price. Something about monthly quotas or bills and us spending a lot of money there or something. I didn’t understand anything but that I would be allowed to pay less than I thought. So that I did.