Marriage Tester

At our home in Scottsburg, we finished our basement all by ourselves. Well, really David much of it, but I helped as I could considering I had three eye surgeries that summer.

We sectioned off two rooms - one as a storage/display room for his models and one as a project room for me that also served as a guest bedroom. The rest of the basement was left "raw" as storage and a tool area.

In my project room we decided to put metal ceiling tiles up - they were gorgeous. With bead board walls and toille fabric, it gave a very quaint, antiquey feel to the room.

But it was a "bit**" to install. At no point in our marriage have we ever come that close to a divorce. Maybe it was because it was at the end of the project and we were both tired and/or because we go at projects differently - but either way - it was bad.

We often refer to it as "divorce in a box".

I recently discovered these metal tiles and would love to put them on an accent wall in our dining room. I think it would make a contemporary statement and liven up a fairly homogeneous space.

But can our marriage endure this project?