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Kitchen renovation – Glass accent tiles?

by Tricia

Our house is a work in progress. I know I’ve mentioned in the past that we are in the process of finishing up our living room. No the tin ceiling tiles are not up yet! Hopefully we’ll get them up within the next month. At that point it won’t take long to finish our living room and dining room. Then I’ll be looking for our next DIY reno project. The kitchen or the basement will likely be our next big project.

Lucky for me, and perhaps you too if you are thinking about renovating your kitchen, I’ve just visited a site called FloorzBuzz.com. This company just launched it’s online store and it’s a great place to purchase glass accents and accent tiles.

If you watch any of the home renovation shows you might realize that glass accent tiles are being used more often. Floorzbuzz sells glass accent and Travertine Tile at a reasonable price to consumers, home renovators, contractors and interior designers.

I haven’t come up with a plan for our kitchen reno yet, but I know that I’m going to take down the ceramic tiles that literally line the walls. They are from the floor to five feet up the wall! It looks ugly! I don’t know what I’ll do with the walls yet, but I can see using glass accent tiles on the walls in the counter area. Glass accent tiles have a nice glow to them. They are very appealing to look at, and since they are impermeable and non-porous they should be easy to clean and maintain.

Our kitchen floor has laminate wood flooring. It’s lighter than the white oak flooring in our dining room which is the next closest room to the kitchen. I’ve often thought of replacing the laminate flooring with tiles. Perhaps the Travertine tiles would look nice.

As you can see I still need to put more thought into exactly what I’ll do to our kitchen when we renovate, but if you’re a little further along in your plans and would like to get a good price on some lovely tiles please do consider visiting floorzbuzz.com. I’m certain you’ll like their selection.






Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Renovating and DIY, Shopping Tagged With: accent tiles, DIY, floorzbuzz.com, glass accent tiles, Home and Lifestyle, home renovation, kitchen, Renovating and DIY, renovation, Shopping, Travertine tiles

Renovating or re-decorating? Check out Farrey’s

by Tricia

If you are planning to renovate or redecorate your home you should take a look at Farreys.com online selection of products for the home.

Anyone from a regular home owner, DIY’er, interior designers or even general contractors would find that Farrey’s has a wide selection of items that will enhance a homes decor. I’m just sorry that I didn’t find this site three years ago when we were renovating and redecorating our home.

On the Farrey site you’ll find everything from kitchen fixtures, bath hardware, ceiling fans, lighting, door hardware, and a variety of home products.

We are thinking of renovating our kitchen and our bathroom so I’m going to be sure to keep this site in mind when we are ready to start our new project. In the meantime I can browse through the sites name brand products by top manufacturers such as Hinkley lighting, Casablanca, Craftmade, Minka, NuTone and many others.

I’ve already added this site to my bookmarks so I can visit it when I’m ready to renovate or even redecorate. I really liked the design of some of the products that they carry.

Filed Under: Decor, Home and Lifestyle, Renovating and DIY, Shopping Tagged With: bath, bath hardware, ceiling fan, Decor, DIY, Farreys, general contractor, Home and Lifestyle, kitchen, kitchen fixtures, lighting, redecorate, renovate, Renovating and DIY, Shopping

Tin Ceiling

by Tricia

My husband and I have been renovating our house for the last five years. 3 years ago we started to put in a new ceiling in the living room dining room. It’s still not done! Oh we purchased our tin ceiling tiles and I antiqued them. It’s going to look very nice if it ever gets done, but that’s about all that’s been done so far.

You see, a short while after we started renovating the whole living room/ dining room my husband I both became ill. Different illnesses and no nothing that can be traced back to the house or our renovating projects. We had finished our walls with venetian plaster – so that looks good, but don’t look up! We have wooden uh what do you call them? Slats? running along the ceiling, ready to attach the tin ceiling. We don’t really have all that much to do, but even so, it’s still not happening.

I’m getting frustrated. So frustrated in fact that I went looking for Local Contractor Services. Yep. maybe it’s time to stop doing this project ourselves.

I found Contractor Clicks and I’m going through the site looking for just the right type of contractor for the job. I think I might find the right type of contractor under room remodeling. Hey, they even offer 4 free estimates from contractors who’ve been working for at least three years. Alright, well then If can’t get my husband on the move to help me finish the ceiling I might just go back to that site and get me self a contractor.

Hey, I did my part of the job. I did 600 square feet of venetian plaster – two shades, 5 layers- over three weeks! Hand polished and everything. Then I opened up all the boxes of tin ceiling tiles and painted them, and antiqued them – all 83 2.5′ by 2.5′ tin ceiling tiles. All my husband has to do is put them up – with my help. I don’t think that’s too much to ask is it? Well if we don’t start working on it within the next month I’m going to get a contractor in here.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Renovating and DIY Tagged With: contractor, contractor clicks, DIY, In The Garden, renovate, Tin ceiling

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