progress report

Hello out there wherever you are.  Weekend!  So very glad it is the weekend.  And a long one too!  I am going to be brief today because it is a jam-packed Friday.  Here is a progress shot of the bookcase project.  There are doors!  And they open and close!  And there are now shelves on both sides of the fireplace.

And there is a finally a hidden place for the yoga mat and weights.  And see the salvaged brass radiator grates?!  Those were my favorite Brimfield find this year.  I was so excited about them.  And then I nearly lost them because when I finally talked to Dave and he measured and we figured out they would work the guy had sold them.  I am sad to admit that I was actually devastated.  It was hard to keep walking around and not just curl up in a ball and cry.  Luckily Gina was with me so I had to put on a good face.  Otherwise I would have just gone home.  But lo and behold, something happened (not sure what, but I imagine I paid more than the person who bought them that morning) and I was able to buy them.  I had a vision and it is starting to look real good.  Lots of progress.  We are getting closer to painting and that is when the project will really come alive.

Source: flor.com via Cindy on Pinterest

And I wanted to share these FLOR tiles with you because I think they are the bees knees.  All the beauty of the overdyed rugs without the price (or the total mess of a DIY) and rubber backed for super easy clean up.  I have FLOR carpet tiles in a couple rooms in my place and I swear by them.  So easy to clean and no rug pad needed.  They seem to hold up really well too.  The ones I have are mostly solid and not all that exciting.  But these.  Now these are really something! (the photograph with the purple rug was the most interesting, but I really like the chartreuse color best, well for my place, I also dig the pink.)

How about you?  What would be in your progress report?  (Notice how I totally ignored reporting progress on anything other than this bookcase project?  Yeah, that is because that is the ONLY area of life that has seen any progress lately.)