Saturday's Work

 I found tile, luckily, on Friday.  It's a long story, really.  (Thanks, Mom, for listening!)  I learned that "high-end" tile generally gets ordered 4-6 weeks out.  Bob had been warning me that it was time to do the backsplash, hence a mad Facebook blitz for advice on what to put in there.  Deciding was hard.  The luck part was that some high-end tile that fit perfectly was discontinued in some warehouse and waiting for someone to want it for cheap or free and I was in the right place at the right time to get it!   (Oddly, I stumbled into some tile at HD too that was $.01/sf, too!  I think I may have found my superpower!)

I bought this tile on Friday and Bob got right down to installing it Saturday.

 The color is almost exactly the same as the paint on the wall.  A perfect contrast, in my opinion.

The warehouse had a couple of boxes of bullnose to match that wasn't in their inventory, so I could have it for free.  This serendipitously solved our problem of what to do around the unfinished edges.

While Bob worked on tile, I painted these shelves that we'll put on the wall in the kids' rooms with the paint we're using for all the trim and baseboards.  Took longer than I thought it would, of course.  But hopefully I did a good job on the first coat so that the second coat will be much easier.