Numero uno, we've rearranged the living room. Well, technically I rearranged the living room and Kevin approved so we've now got a better layout that makes the room seem much bigger (no pics, sorry, you'll just have to take my word for it). However, with the good comes the bad, and in this case it's some lovely dents in our carpet where the sofa used to be. I looked online for a solution and the most popular suggestion seemed to be leaving ice cubes on the carpet overnight. Now this, weirdly, I do have pictures of...
Before
During
(I'm not sure why I think this needs a during picture, as it's essentially just some ice cubes on carpet, but I took the picture, so I'm gonna make you look at it!)
After
Well, it sort of worked, but not really. I think this may possibly be because it's not a wool carpet, it's some kind of poly-something-or-other I think. I know for sure it melts when you drop an iron on it, anyway.
The carpet is definitely a bit fluffier, but still obviously flattened. I've been fluffing up the pile with a wire brush twice a day for a few days now, and it seems to be helping a little bit, but the dents are still there if you look closely. I'm hoping they'll eventually disappear, or I'll find some other clever solution. Or more likely we'll just stop noticing them and live with it!
Mini update number two... the kitchen!
Kevin's brother recently posted some pictures on Facebook of him tiling his kitchen with some gorgeous black subway tiles. I mentioned to Kevin that they were exactly what I had been dreaming of for our kitchen, only in white, but the only nice ones I'd found had been quite expensive. He asked his brother where he got the tiles from and they're from Homebase and only £6.99 for a pack of 25. So obviously we rushed out to get them. And then we didn't get them because we had a boot full of other stuff and would be back the next day. Well, we went back the next day and they were totally sold out, as were all the other Homebase stores in the whole flippin' city. Luckily, it was Mothers' Day and Kevin had planned to visit his parents' house, and the Homebase near them had like a million of them in stock, so he was able to pick some up. Hooray for mothers! And Kevins!
We bought some gorgeous stainless steel edging from B&Q, which was twice the price of a pack of tiles for less than two metres, but totally worth it for the look. We were originally going to get the silver finish, but in the shop we saw the stainless steel, and as our hob, oven and sink are all stainless steel, we thought it might be nice to match.
Before we started we mocked up a (very!) rough picture on Photoshop to see if what we were planning would look okay. We wanted to do three tiles high the length of the worktop, with maybe a five tile high splashback behind the hob.
This is the most before-y pic I have, the tiles are just resting against the wall.
As you can see, I'm amazing at Photoshop, what can I say, it's a gift... Anyway, we decided against going five tiles high behind the hob, as we didn't really need to and it looked cleaner with a long line of straight tiles.
Kevin has been sawing the edging to fit, and I've been doing the tiling, and so far this is what we've got (bear in mind it's not grouted yet, we're going with white):
So, we're not done yet, we have an extra section of worktop to add, along with the wine rack (which we use as a tea towel holder, 'cause we're cool like that) and a space for baking trays, but so far I think we've made good progress.
Well, that's it for a mini update. I've also been painting various boring items of furniture but nothing else blogworthy has been happening around here. We're planning on doing loads more to the kitchen over the next couple of weeks so who knows, there may be another post in the near future... no promises though!
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