A glimpse of the reason for my delay in postings :-(

I know it's been awhile since I posted.  We have been very, very busy dealing with a very unexpected problem.  We are gaining on  it and I will follow up with a detailed post that will describe our discovery, repair, and recovery from it.

Under our refrigerator,
just discovering the problem

Beginning to find out how widespread
and how bad it really is

Seems we have had a leak totally unbeknownst to us for who knows how long.  Water had permeated our floor, thankfully Monaco had installed two distinct layers of floor separated by a tough plastic waterproof membrane that saved the main 3/4" floor.  But over an area of approximately 50 square feet the upper layer of 1/2" board under the existing tile was totally destroyed.  We are in process of tearing it up, fixing the leak(that was first!), repairing the floor, and figuring out how we will proceed from here.  Thankfully we have been planning to remove our tile floor and replace it with wood so we are now well on our way:-)  We are working through several different plans for our final redone floor and I will share our planning, pictures of the project, and hopefully a beautiful completed floor.