Tile

I just realized that I had forgotten to post pictures of our exciting addition to our kitchen! 

We tiled the backsplash!

We are fairly pleased with the results, but we had some problems with the grouting step.  The grout dried faster than we expected ... unfortunately before we wiped all of it off.  This was made more problematic by the tile we chose which is heavily textured.  While this looks really cool, it provides about a million little grooves for the grout to settle into ... and dry.  So I spent about 8 hours scraping grout off of the textured tiles with a chopstick over the two days following our tile installation. 

While there is still quite a bit of grout left on the tile, it's not really visible also because of the textured tile.  We de-hazed twice and haven't sealed it yet, but it's complete for now. 

Next up:  painting the kitchen yet again.  The tile doesn't match the green but we decided to buy the tile we really liked and change the wall color.  I'm sure I'll get around to painting sometime soon ...