Building the base layer: Part II
Tuesday, February 5: Day 84 I explained in this post our plan to tear up the kitchen floor, then lay it back down in an attempt to make it level. Well, we did it. And I think I can safely say that at...
View ArticlePrepping for Tile: Cleaning and Flattening the Subfloor
Kitchen Remodel: Day 245 Our guacamole walls have been replaced with icy green. And with that, the painting is done! At least until the cabinets go up. But before we can think about cabinets, we have...
View ArticleHow to Lay Tile (as far as I know.)
Kitchen Remodel: Day 250 Oh, what a beautiful sight! Three days of tiling and we’re almost done. We finished laying all of the whole tiles, which means we left the slowest part — cutting — for last....
View ArticleWhere’d the bed go? (An explanation.)
I’m not going to tell you that you should follow me on Facebook or Instagram *reverse psychology*. But if everybody who reads this blog followed me on one or the other, we could all save ourselves a...
View ArticleThe War Between the Floors
Fun fact: A “war of attrition” is defined as a military strategy in which a belligerent side attempts to win a war by wearing down its enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in...
View ArticleMagic Carpet Ride
I painted the carpet in The Boom Boom Room! That’s not a euphemism. You know, this may surprise some of you, but when you tell people that you are going to paint a carpet, the most common reaction is a...
View ArticleT-minus 79 Days
Damn, that doesn’t sound very long, does it? Luckily I’ve made remarkable progress on the nursery over the past two weeks. To be specific: It is REMARKABLE how LITTLE progress I have made, given the...
View ArticleFloor Refinishing: Lesson 1
You know, I almost didn’t write this post. Because the floor’s not done yet. And I thought about slacking and just not posting anything until the floor was done and I had a completed project to tell...
View ArticleCarpet: Fix It or Ditch It?
I would like to take a moment to talk about a little thing called Hometalk. I’ve mentioned it before, but for those of you who haven’t heard of Hometalk, I think it can best be explained like this: If...
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