Bathroom Renovation: Tiling
By mid-May, approximately a month after I started our bathroom renovation project, I was finally ready to tile. My first tiling endeavor was to tile the floor. I started by…
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Bathroom Renovation: Custom Woodwork
I spent a lot of time thinking through the design of our bathroom, particularly how I would maximize storage without making it look cluttered. Finding a medicine cabinet that worked…
Bathroom Renovation: Demolition
I absolutely hate demo work. It’s hard on the body and extremely dirty – especially in an old house. My original plan was to outsource the demo work and then…
Bathroom Renovation: Design
The last room in our house to be renovated is our very burgundy 1980s bathroom. I’ve hated this bathroom for a long time, but it used to be the only…
Christmas 2021
Here we are, 2 years into a pandemic, with many of the same frustrations felt a year ago. This year was somehow even harder than the last. Last year everyone…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Tiling
Months into my basement bathroom reno, I was finally ready to tile. The walls were up, plumbing and electrical were in, and waterproofing was done. Materials and Tools My original…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Waterproofing
I’ve done a lot of renovating over the last 6 years, and there are two things that scare me: structural work and anything that can cause water damage. So I…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Design
The layout of our bathroom was determined when we underpinned our basement and all the rough-in plumbing was done. But the specifics of the design still needed to be figured…
Kitchen Final Reveal
Our kitchen renovation was a long time coming. We first began talking about redoing the kitchen in 2016. We didn’t just hit on our hands for the last 3 years;…
Kitchen Renovation: Part 11 – Finishing Touches
Given how massive this project was, many of the tasks that are usually major milestones in a project seemed small in comparison. Painting One of the first finishing touches was…
Kitchen Renovation: Part 7 – Plumbing and Electrical
When we were looking for a contractor, we wanted someone who would let us do some of the work ourselves. Not only does it save on costs, but there are…
Kitchen Renovation: Part 3 – Materials
Once we had our contractor on board, it was time to advance our kitchen project and start making some big decisions. With our general design nailed down, we could now…
Bathroom Face-Lift
Now that we’ve pretty much renovated our entire house, the parts that are unrenovated (our kitchen and bathroom) look pretty sad in comparison. Our plan is to renovate the kitchen…
First Floor Reveal
It’s been a year since we bought our house and a lot has changed. We’ve replaced our electrical wiring, fixed our fireplace, replaced our hardwood floor, painted the walls, installed…
Vestibule Tile Installation
Our front door has a small vestibule. It was originally covered in tile, but when we replaced our hardwood floor we took this nasty blue tile out. We opted to…
Fireplace Renovation: Part 2 – Preparing the Floor
We’ve been stalled on our reno work for a while because we’ve been trying to figure out what to do next. Our concrete hearth idea is complicated for newbies, and…