"Gingi,*" the red-headed kitchen, & our renovated bathroom--latest look

Presenting "Gingi" and "Bathy", almost completed.  (For previous views of "Gingi," see here, and follow the links.)

Kitchen:  new back-splash (behind sink and rest of right wall), ready for its close-up (click on the photo).

As I explained here, "We chose a mostly-white tile back-splash because we figured that, with a multicolored floor and counter-top, if we put any more colors up there, the kitchen would look like Joseph's Technicolor Dreamcoat.  :)

Longer shot of kitchen with new easy-to-open-from-the-inside-only security gate (in front of fire-escape window).

Shower power

We're floored.  :)

Let there be light--but not 'til you get a good look at the fixture.

Artist at work--here's a close-up of the "listello" (patterned decorative tiles).

Our bathroom used to be tiled only halfway up the walls.  Unfortunately, the border where the tiled part of the walls met the painted part was a dust collector--and after 29 years of having to wipe the dust off the edge of the tiles almost every darned day, I was fed up to here.  So we went for broke (just about literally) and tiled the bathroom walls all the way up to the ceiling.  In addition to eliminating the dust problem, having tiles all the way up will save some money in the future on painting.

*"Gingi" is the contemporary Israeli Hebrew word for "red-head."