Building With Bay West Homes

The journey of building a new house...

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

For those of you who have been emailing us asking for details on the walkthrough, be patient, I'll post on it later tonight. :-) I wanted to post something interesting that I had received via email. Remember we talked about going with the Asian-style backsplash tile? Check out what Ken Lin had to say about it:

"I am glad you did not go with the Asian themed pattern back splash. First, the Chinese characters mean "Happy New Year", which would be nice to see once a year but probably not every day of the year. Second, if your picture is oriented correctly and had you installed that tile that way, you will find Chinese visitors to your kitchen smiling as they lean their heads toward their left shoulders when reading the characters. The tile shop has displayed it 90 degrees off (counterclockwise)!"

I guess I should have asked someone that knew Chinese to look at the tiles. :-)