Renovations: The Library
Well folks, it is time to reveal our mostly completed library. That is right; we converted our “garage” (our front bedroom) into a library. Why was it a garage? Take a peek at the picture below and you will see why. The room tended to gather miscellaneous items and turned into something pretty unusable and hideous. That needed to change. Thankfully we had inspiration from my...
Read MoreRenovations 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...
Read MoreRenovations Part 6: The Bathroom
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...
Read MoreLet There Be Tile
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...
Read MoreRenovations Update
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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