I’m participating in the One Room Challenge (ORC) put on by Calling it Home.  I am linking up with them as a guest participant! Check out what everyone is doing in week 3!

When I left you last, we were trying to decide on lights, getting ready to meet with an electrician, and getting ready to install tile.

The good news is that we did buy lights! Now, here is hoping that it all looks good together 😐 If not, all of the lights we bought can be returned. In addition, we are waiting to have electrical completed until the lights arrive so that if our decisions don’t work, we are not tied to doing a center light and two sconces. We can rework the whole thing if needed.  So here is what we decided on:

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Actually, the doorbell just rang and the pendant is here!! Seriously, I was just editing…this is in real time folks 🙂

I really do love it. Its bigger than I remember it being (#twss) in the store, which is a good thing!

We met with an electrician last Thursday. We asked the same electrician to come out that worked on our last house (Ashpaugh Electric, Inc. for Indianapolis area residents). We were very happy with their work and pricing at the old house, and their quote this time was also reasonable from my perspective.

So, on the light front, things are good – for now.

On the flip side, this week felt a little more like “renovation realities” than we would have liked. Parker started tiling Sunday morning because we had some family stuff we wanted to do on Saturday. The first flop was that the drill accessory that stirs the thin set did not fit on Parker’s drill. His old drill was not charged, and even if it was, the battery probably wouldn’t last long enough to get the thin set stirred well. So at about 9 a.m. he had to go out and buy a cheap drill to stir the thin set.

After he returned with a new $50 drill, he began tiling and didn’t stop for 12 hours! He went from about 10a.m. – 10p.m and unfortunately, he didn’t finish 🙁 Even though he ordered 10% over our square footage, he realized late into the evening that he was going to end up 4 tiles short…womp…womp. Since there was no way he could finish, he was exhausted, and we had also run out of tile spacers, this is where we stopped:

Our extra tiles arrived today, so the plan is to finish the tiling tomorrow (Thursday) night. However, that is not the end of tiling. We will still have to seal, then grout, then seal again. So by next week, tiling should actually be finished.

Also on the agenda this week:

1. Make sure we like all of the lights together and then schedule the electrician
2. Start deciding on paint colors
3. Finalize plan (what it will look like vertically) for the built in cubbies
4. Buy materials for cubbies and hopefully get started

Here is some inspiration for the walls. I would love to do a darker paint (and board and batten). We saw Sherwin Williams Iron Ore on a lot of built ins and wood work in a show home a few years ago, and we both loved it. However, I don’t want to distract from the tile. I am hoping there will be enough white with the built ins and furniture, that we can pull it off. I included one picture of dark paint on slate, and I think it works :

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See you next week! I’d love for you to follow me on pinterest/instagram/twitter/bloglovin! You can follow by clicking on the icons in the sidebar. You can also check out the first and second week of the one room challenge.