And we're on our way (tomorrow)

 We do where we're going:

We're taking our time.

First night in North Little Rock (quickly becoming a favorite destination)
Second night in St Louis (already a favorite since we stay with friends)
Third night in Milwaukee

As always, in spite of the fact we've done this several times before there is always a little controversy about what we will be taking with us.

Looking forward to getting back to Milwaukee, but we will miss dearly our Houston friends.

Kitchen Sconces

 We have the original Wright sconces that were in the kitchen.

They look like this:

But we want to put some glass shades on them that mimic the glass in the rest of the house. 

So we are looking at something like this:

Now, the Meyer May house used the similar sconces, but they just put in large frosted bulbs:

(Look at the tile detail, and then look at the tile images from the previous post)

You might recall that the kitchen was redesigned in the 1960s, and the lights lloked like this:

but we want it to look like this:

More or less...

We are getting close.

Tile

 Oh, tile. It causes me much heartburn.

The problem is that there are far too many tiles to choose from, and many more colors within each of those tile families. 

Take a look here for the Pewabic family of tile. 

And look here for the Motawi family of tile.

We, and by "we" I mean Doreen. But I was there in a supportive way, patient and confident that the result would be fantastic.

So we did end up picking the Motawi tile. And I was right, it looks great.

Primary Bath:

There was a minor hiccup with the spacing, but that was resolved over a weekend.

You can't see them that well in the two above photos, but we are using some of the FLW detail tiles that tie into the square motif of the house for accents. They look like this:

and here are some of the hex Motawi tiles grouted in:

and some more grouted tile:

We will be heading north in just over a week, so we will be able to see these in real life, real soon.