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divdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivdivI have no idea yet what the layout for this room is going to be. I know I need to get rid of all three doors in here (closet, in from hall and in from master [Read More]

First of all, I’d like to thank the members of the Des Moines Rehabbers Club who kindly offered me advice this morning.  I sent a rather panicked email to the mailing list this morning and got some really excellent responses.  It helps so mu [Read More]

We’ve hired a professional flooring company to install tile in our bathroom.  We worked with them for several weeks, stopped in at the store twice, and had several phone discussions in setting all this up.  He told us we’d need to have [Read More]

We finally made some progress! Our contractor Sean is letting Paul borrow his battery-operated brad nailer, which has increased the speed of the bamboo-floor-laying considerably. On top of that, the kitchen cabinets are being hung, the dining room wa [Read More]

I took half a day off yesterday to lay tile in the downstairs bathroom. All-in-all it went pretty smooth except... A few years ago I laid white hex tile in the bathroom of our other bungalow, and subsequently had about 5 square feet left over. So [Read More]

Yesterday's pictures of the master bathroom just didn't do it justice. The lovely bright lemon-yellow tilework just doesn't show to its full advantage. I'm going to have to try to take better pictures of it. Last night we had our first non-family [Read More]

Sorry for the slow updates this week. I've had a nasty chest cold and haven't been at the house since Tuesday. The great news is that the tiling in the bathrooms is COMPLETE! John did a fantastic job. Here's the master shower nook:John sitting in the [Read More]

We have a rubble pile in our alley. It's been there ....oh.....um.... over a year . The rubble pile appeared early on in the renovation process. At the time we had a great young plumber, who worked at nights. I left him notes and plans, and the next [Read More]

We are just about done laying the tile! (We are also both exhausted.) We did everything except the little back part, which we will do tomorrow after the rest sets. The small tiles minimized the amount of cutting we had to do. It was a bit of a challe [Read More]

It's a weekend, so we must be working on tiling the bathrooms. First we laid out all of the tiles in the guest bathroom and did that aesthetic arranging that we like to do so they look like they've got a pattern, while remaining somewhat random (does [Read More]

We best not be as we have a whole lot of it to go! Tonight we made good progress in the master bath.Eric mortared and laid the tiles while I cut them to fit along the walls. We performed a miracle on Justen's tile saw with the aid of a "feng shui zen [Read More]

We got a whole 7 tiles laid in the master bath this evening. Granted, they are 18" tiles that we have to very carefully lay as we're doing a straightforward grid pattern. We're trying to keep the lines very even and the mortar bed built up slightly t [Read More]

It's November and I haven't touched this blog since July. How time flies when you're having so much fun with remodeling. The good news is that the guest bath is finally done.A view of the bathroom before the remodel: and after: The Kitty was a great [Read More]

The Projects Inside section has been updated highlighting the latest work on the never-ending First Floor Bathroom project.  We have been been working hard on so many other... [Read More]

We need a lot. Actually, we needed "splies". We went to the Tile Shop after work today to get MORE tile and other stuff (yes, we were just at Hamilton Parker yesterday, no we are not tile-obsessed...well, maybe a little). First order of business was [Read More]

The first floor bathroom walls and floor is now grouted and the space is finally taking on that "thank God, we're almost finished" look!  It looks great and no problem with... [Read More]

It's been a couple weeks since I posted an update on our efforts so I thought I'd take a moment to document our progress on the bathroom since the last post.  We regretted having to call the plumber to fix our [ahem] unfortunate plumbing mishap [Read More]