One down, Five to go!

So, we finished one room! Our bedroom is painted, polished and ready for move in. We won't have anywhere to shower, go to the bathroom or cook our food, but we'll have a place to sleep. Because that's really what's most important - sleep. Relieving oneself and eating are way overrated!

We are currently T-13 days until we have to be out of our apartment. This means 13 days to finish the bathroom, finish the two other bedroom and finish the living room, plus we have to pack up our apartment and move. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Yeah, you could say I'm beginning to get a little nervous. We gave up working on the kitchen until we actually move in. For the first couple of months is looks like we'll be eating off of a hotplate, microwave and crockpot. I just keep reminding myself that it will all be worth it in the end.

Last weekend we worked with a cabinet guy at Lowe's to design our kitchen. Lowe's has the best price on cabinets, plus they have 20% off their cabinets right now - that's a huge savings if you're spending thousands of dollars. The program they use to design the kitchen is pretty cool. We measured all the walls and chose our cabinets and then the Lowe's cabinet guy plugs it all into his magic program and designs us a kitchen. We played around with a bundle of ideas, but I think we came up with a winner. The main thing we wanted to do with our kitchen is take out some walls in order to open the kitchen into the living room. We wanted to create more of a great room rather than a separate kitchen and living room. We feel like we achieved almost exactly what we wanted. Our plan as of right now is to go with granite tiles for the counters - much cheaper than one large granite slab. We are still deciding about the floor. I lean towards slate tiles, but we've also talked about cork floor or wood floor. I really like the look of the slate tiles, but we also worry about the breakability factor - drop anything on this tile and it will shatter. But then again, you drop something hard enough on wood floor and it will shatter. We're going to go with stainless steal appliances. We still have many final decision to make with the kitchen, but we're well on our way to designing what we want.

Update on the bathroom: We replaced all the sheet rock surrounding the shower with hardy backer and green board to prep it for our tiling. We're laying the sub-floor to prep it for tiling as well. We're hoping to start the tiling this weekend when my mom "the master tiler" helps us out. Once we have the floor tile down, we can put in the toilet and sink. We going for the black and white tile theme. The picture to the above provides an idea of what we're going for. *This is not our bathroom.* I wish this was our bathroom because that would mean we were done with it. I'm not sure what color we're going to paint the walls. How about some blog participation: What color do you think we should paint the walls in the bathroom??? Anything goes with black and white, so we're open to ideas. Comment to this blog post with what you think would look best.