...and then there was floor. Although we got a minor whee from the blue linoleum that was revealed when our contractor pulled back the other strata of floor in the kitchen, we nevertheless wanted something a bit more... us... to go with our nifty new cabinetry.

One challenge we had to face in selecting flooring is the somewhat, uh, OK extremely uneven pitch of the floor in this part of the house. It's an addition from sometime in the twentieth century, and believe me when I say the job went to the low bidder. While there really isn't a single right angle in the whole place, the kitchen floor appears to defy the laws of geometry, if not physics.

Which severely limits the choices for flooring. The waves of level in our kitchen rule out slate, tile, wood, pretty much anything that must remain flat. That leaves us with some variant of plastic.

After much searching and grimacing, we found our solution, a commercial flooring from Europe called Karndean. It actually approaches the appearance of something that once grew on a tree. The pix here don't do it justice, but it is really very cool stuff.