First Project

For those of you that know Jeff & I very well, you would know that we cannot be idle when it comes to home improvement projects. We have been in the house about a month and a half and have already completed our portion of our first project. We had wanted a woodburning stove in our new home. Since our house didn't have one we decided at the time we purchased it we would put one in. So, the search was on for a woodstove. We went to a few places and with Melissa's help picked out a Pacific Energy woodstove in the colour "sunset red". I don't think we would have selected red if it wasn't for her saying "hey Heather check this one out". That's all it took since red is my favourite colour. Having selected the stove, the company to install we then had to take care of the flooring. We had to do an 18sq ft space in fire resistant flooring. After a bit of a search for the perfect tile, we went with slate tiles. They are multi-coloured stone and rustic...very suitable for our country home. It took about a week of laying them out to find a pattern or a flow of the various colours, cutting them, laying them and finally grouting. But it was well worth our effort as it looks awesome. Jeff was really worried because he cut our pine floors to make the tiles flush with the floor and he had never done tiling before. He didn't have to worry because he did an excellent job. We are now ready for our stove to be installed. I think it will be this coming week. Stay tuned for photos.