Progress (although its mostly in the walls)

Wall Outlets ARE important!

We continue to make slow, steady progress. Big issue was how to place the wall outlets, particularly in the kitchen and bathroom where we have this gorgeous glass tile. As some of you know, I have been collecting photos from blogs and cutting out pages from magazines related to this renovation. So we looked at them, desperately trying to find out how the REAL designers do it.

This turned out not to be helpful. Page after page of bathrooms and kitchens with nary an outlet in sight! Where are they? How do you plug in your coffee maker, food processor, toaster oven if you live in a designer kitchen? How do you make them look good in all that expensive tile/glass/marble/granite?

We contacted the glass tile manufacturer and they said they could make an outlet cover for us, but it would be a special order and would be expensive. We looked at a million websites. We gave up . . .

We turned to our friend/person of great taste/design consultant extraordinaire, Joan Berger, and she admonished us to place the outlets horizontally and close to the base boards. And she is right. They look much better this way.

So as you examine these photos, look for where the outlets are!

Above is the new dinning room looking out to the back yard.

Above is another view of the dining room. And below is a view of the new door to the garage. It will be between the dinning room and kitchen. See the low, horizontal outlet?!

And, for those who are tracking this, I (Toni) will be posting mostly from now on.