Life's a Stitch

Renovations require decisions based on tiny samples. Think little squares of counter tops, paint chips and rectangles of flooring. In our case it all worked out…except for the main floor powder room. The one most used by visitors. I was expecting a black background with random sparkly bits, but there were random miscommunications in this project, this one more notable than others.

It looks to me like black and grey speckled rock with hints of rust, splattered by a passing seagull. Quite appropriate, though, for a beach community. My daughter told me it didn’t look too bad in general, but the white splotches looked like toothpaste spit. Lovely.

Where we really did well countertop wise, is in our walk-out basement suite. Despite discouragement from our builder, we reused the houses’s original kitchen cabinets along with its blue pearl granite counters. The island is on casters for the option of instantly changing the kitchen layout.

Those counters successfully survived removal, multiple relocations including a stint outside in the dead of winter, and recutting. Reusing them cost less than installing Formica. Wish there had been enough for the powder room.