New in the Kitchen

After a long and much-needed hiatus from house projects, the Mayor and the Hobbit Wife have been enjoying a renewed/new sense of purpose as they have been exploring what Michael Delving is about.  The house seems to have a growing sense of identity, and all kinds of house projects small and large are springing to joyful life.

 

Last Saturday over coffee in the morning, the Mayor commented that he'd like to replace the kitchen floor.  It ended up taking longer than he expected because SOMEONE (the picture gives a clue as to that person's identity) had done a bang-up job with prepping and gluing the previous kitchen floor tiles, necessitating much chiseling and prying (aka bang-up job #2) to remove the old floor.

Here's some of the new kitchen floor mid-installation.  It took much longer than expected but turned out wonderfully.

While the floor was going on upstairs, downstairs in the Mayor's shop, the new kitchen table (begun long ago in the summer of 2012) was drying under the last coat of polyurethane.  The table had been on hold for this long because it needed to wait until the Mayor and the Hobbit Wife knew what sort of family gathering place was needed.  Once the Father passed that on, the rest was a piece of cake.  The Mayor worked up a quick model in Sketchup to work out the exact dimensions.

And it was only two weekends from there to the finished table, which turned out to be everything that was hoped for.

 The finished table and new floor.  We look forward to hosting you soon!