Well we thought maybe since a few people had heard about our progress over the last weekend, we may as well post it up so the rest of the world can see it.
The big goal of our MLK weekend was to get our back-splash done. Originally, it was going to be and my wife doing the blunt of the work and struggling our way through it. Thankfully a sister once again volunteered her talents and was able to help on the back splash, and it looks pretty good if you ask me. (And it allowed me to work on projects I saw of higher importance)
It is your run of the mill earth tone square mosaic tile you can buy in sheets. But then we decided that would be too boring so we bought some accent tiles; expensive little buggers, and put those in to add just a little more depth to things.
Oh and just a side note, when you buy thin-set, double check if it is quick setting or not... kind of makes a big deal of things if you have to hurry.
So while those two were busy with the tile me and my sisters "Special Friend" worked on finishing the data wiring through the house. he did a great job and it looks really good and clean. If anyone needs this done I highly recommend that you call him to come and do it. So now we have hard line internet and Coax running to almost every room in the house.
I plan on building a cabinet door and surround to go around it and make it "outta sight outta mind" but still very accessible for people if something needed change in the future. I am also going to just make a piece of plywood that can cover the exposed wire around the panel box and be painted to match the walls. This will clean up the messy look of the Main breaker box and the central data location.
Now for the big one, long story short; we have been watching our Craigslist for a fireplace over the last 3 months. Mainly because both our patio and basement are reasonably cold places and we wanted something that would match the decor and still be nice. Once we started looking into it. We were not able to do anything in the basement, for venting reasons and our chimney now used for the furnace vent. as for the patio, we would have to do quite the overhaul of a wall so that idea was kind of out.
We were at Menards the other day, and they had on sale an electric fireplace insert. It is made to be put in a place where you had a fireplace but have no interest in making a real fire. So we got it and brought it home, but we had no mantle to place it in or anything. We did have a lot of scrap wood, and an air nailer lying around :) We then spent a part of the night looking at fireplaces on the internet and taking design cues we liked from them.
I spent the next day grabbing all of the leftover 1 x 8's and 12's and cutting them to what I needed to make a base, Uprights and filler boards. I had leftover Crown from the kitchen and baseboard from the wall we took out and left over 2x3's for the framing from the basement studs. We did go and buy 3 pieces of 1/2" round... to finish the look, but for the most part that was all. I had to cut a large piece of plywood we had from the cabinets upstairs for the top of the mantle...we have yet to paint it, but looks pretty good. My wife liked it so much; it is apparently going to stay upstairs in use until the basement is finished.
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