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Monday, September 17, 2007 It is high time I wrote about our completed kitchen tile project. We actually finished it a couple months ago, but my kitchen hasn't been tidy enough to take "finished" pictures. Hah! I was so sick of our old lineoleum floor... it had little nicks and cuts and I just couldn't get the spot where Oscar comes in from the backyard clean. We picked these brown tiles and chose a dove grey grout to match. It really wasn't too much work to lay down the tile. We did it in a weekend. We bought a tile cutter for less than $100 and it was so worth it. Aaron did the cutting and laying while I pretty much handed him tiles and kept the four legged critters out of the kitchen. You can see more pictures of the process on my Project Gallery. Oscar and Stewie approve of the new tile floor. While we had everything pulled out of the kitchen we painted it a nice butter yellow. I like how it looks next to our Tiffany blue foyer. Mmmm butter. Labels: house, kitchen, oscar, project, stewie posted on 9/17/2007 :: link ............................................................................................ 10 Comments: I LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors. I have always been drawn to colors that are named after edible things...I have green teva sneakers because the green is labeled celery! By  Tori, at 18/9/07 1:43 PM Wonderful job. I always imagined your kitchen to be huge and filled with little knicky knacks you've collected from god only knows where! Where do you hide everything? The tile floor came out great looking.. that's one of those projects I'd love to start and hate to finish. By  lowbrow, at 18/9/07 2:20 PM Looks great!! I have (almost) the same linoleum that you did. White, and somehow is NEVER clean. I've killed many a "Mr. Clean magic eraser" on that floor. :) This is one of those projects that's on my mind every time I clean! Good job! By  Carrie, at 18/9/07 2:58 PM Have you seen Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House? The butter yellow reminds me of a funny scene where Mrs Blandings is obsessing over paint colors. Muriel Blandings: I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I'd like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you'll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can't go wrong! Now, this is the paper we're going to use in the hall. It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There's some little dots in the background, and it's these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room - in here - I want you to match this thread, and don't lose it. It's the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it's practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me... Mr. PeDelford: You got that Charlie? Charlie, Painter: Red, green, blue, yellow, white. I think butter yellow is a very good color, but it will always remind me of that scene! By  srah, at 18/9/07 4:12 PM Did you pull up the vinyl flooring before you put the tile down? It looks great. By  Elizabeth, at 18/9/07 9:06 PM The tiles look great! Well done. I love a good DIY project. We've almost finished putting in a whole new kitchen. It can disrupt your life for a while! By  vic, at 19/9/07 4:05 AM Okay, now I am aptly motivated to do ours. Same problem with our existing vinyl floor that you cited - some areas (heavy dog foot traffic!) just WON'T come clean. And I'm talking on-my-knees-scrubbing, people! (Won't EVEN attempt a swiffer cleaning there). Is it really THAT easy? We already have a tile cutter thanks to husband's "I must have that tool" obsession. Also - did you place right over the old vinyl - or - have to pull that up? By  Anonymous, at 19/9/07 6:24 AM tile looks great...the best thing to "try" to keep your light grout clean is the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. I made the mistake of putting light grout in my kitchen and our labs constantly bring in dirt but the Magic Eraser is a life saver!!!! By  Rebecca, at 19/9/07 9:09 AM elizabeth and anonymous - yes, we did pull up the vinyl floor and were lucky to have a good subfloor under that. Check out my project gallery for a picture of the subfloor. By  ljc, at 19/9/07 9:58 AM Boy, it looks great! Vinyl isn't the easiest to keep up with. It doesn't look like you put down cement board under the tile-----keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't develop cracks since the floor under the tile is apt to move (the tile can't move like wood and will then crack). By  Anonymous, at 20/9/07 10:53 PM Post a Comment ............................................................................... Go to ljcfyi Main