Renovations Part 7: Finished Bathroom
I don’t know about you but I had a productive weekend. A long one, but I completed my bathroom. Since my house only has one bathroom I really didn’t have much choice but to finish it quickly. My wife was out of town at a wedding this weekend so I really needed to finish before she got home. Before I get started I just want to say that this would not have been possible if not for my...
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That is right folks! It’s that time again. I am in for a long weekend. I will be ripping out the bathroom of our house this weekend and putting in a new toilet and bathtub as well as tiling the floors and walls of the shower. Sound like fun? I will try to document the process with pictures to post here to show the transformation. Stay tuned. Brian
Read MoreRenovations Update 5
Many things have happened since I last posted an update. Many things indeed! We are not quite finished with our living area yet but we are many steps closer. I will give you a visual walk through of the progress that has been made. The last you saw we had the tile stuck up on the wall with tape. The next step was to grout the tile. Next we started building and fitting the mantle to the...
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Just another quick fireplace update. There will probably be several of these in the next week. We put up the tile on the front of the fireplace this evening. And yes, that is duct tape. The two pieces in the top middle needed some support. Nice, huh? Anyway, the next step is grouting the tile and then we will be on to the mantle. I am hoping to have the mantle done this week end. ...
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There have been too few of these updates on what is going on with our renovation projects. That is a direct result of the speed at which these projects are going. Very slow. But there is progress nonetheless and we should be seeing the progress speed up. As you can see from the picture above most of the white paint that covered our fireplace has been scrapped off and some tile has been...
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It has been a while since my last post about the things we are attempting to do to our house. Last time I talked about this we had ripped off the entertainment center that covered our fireplace and were planning on redoing it somehow. It is amazing how you can start with a simple plan and, over time, it gets more and more complicated. Here are some of the things that fixing the fireplace has...
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