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I recently picked up a Corian (not too recently:) counter top for my bathroom sink. It did not have a back splash for it, so I had to improvise. This is a typical theme for my house…pick up something and make everything else work with it. I [Read More]

It took one day to get the granite/marble laid, and the contractors came back the next day to set the base"board" and grout everything. We're pleased with how it turned out, and, if it wasn't before, it's very clear now that this bathroom will indeed [Read More]

Today, Greg & I started tiling our master bath using 1 inch hexagon tiles. We first did a dry run and cut all the tile to fit. Then we popped out white tiles and replaced them with some black ones to make a flower pattern. It was a fun time. Good [Read More]

Greg's has some shows up in Canada and I am holding down the fort, kind of. I've had a few meltdowns along the way. The plumbers have come and gone- with only a couple walls torn up, one cracked pipe and our tile ripped out of the floor. The good new [Read More]

There's a lot to do right now because of the wedding coming up in 1 month, so I really haven't been all that busy. I decided to try cleaning up the grout in the kitchen and dining room again even though it really didn't do a lot last time. A few hars [Read More]

I might be homeless, but that doesn't stop me from remodeling. This week I am giving my parents a reprieve from the mess of remodeling and am working for my grandparents in Missoula. They have spoiled me rotten just because I'm the only granddaugh [Read More]

a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustapeck/3068252686/" title="Built-in cabinet and shower stall by Christopher Busta-Peck, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/3068252686_07a83a337d.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="Built-in [Read More]

a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustapeck/3031703962/" title="Tile, master bathroom by Christopher Busta-Peck, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/3031703962_47d2d26eed.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Tile, master bathroom [Read More]

I found a box of black glazed ceramic tiles at a charity sale several years ago and I bought it. I didn't know WHAT I was going to use it for, but I knew I would use it for something. Since then it has sat under my dad's BBQ grill table on his back p [Read More]

While I've been waiting for the bidding period to end for the house I made the offer on, I've been looking at other houses. Today, I went with my agent to see a nice Tudor at the lower end of our budget.br /br /The interior was very different from wh [Read More]

I can be impulsive, like buying a hundred-year-old house and jumping into the project. The south balcony was so bad it could have temped me to jump in a bad sort of way. I tried to ignore it because I did not have a clue how to fix it. When I bought [Read More]

While my house doesn’t quite meet the requirements to make it a Craftsman- I still love the style.  Which makes me want to snap up the tiles below as fast as I can- even though our back-splash is done, and I don’t have a use for them oth [Read More]

On the same day my cousins came over and drew graffiti on my bathroom walls, they also let out a little adolescent frustration on the tile in the kitchen.  And a good time was had by all. Technorati Tags: photos, kitchen [Read More]

Now that it’s getting way too hot outside for my tastes, I’m thinking about my next project — one that’s been on the agenda for a while: the bathroom tile. Because the PO had the entire bathroom tiled, including the ceiling, we&#8 [Read More]

DH and I decided to head out to the house and have a picnic on our property. We packed a cooler with drinks, grabbed a couple of folding lawn chairs, stopped at Subway and picked up some sandwiches and enjoyed the sunny day (which, after about 10 day [Read More]

Well, we went to choose our carpet tonight. We are putting carpet in the master bedroom, kids' bedrooms, attic hallway, guest bedroom, and music room. We took samples of the carpets we liked out to the house to see how they looked next to the tile [Read More]

I've finally uploaded the last few days worth of pictures. They can all be viewed via the House Pictures link, but I'll post a few below.Yesterday, Mom-Mom and Papa came down to work again. After work, I headed to the house and Papa and I put the w [Read More]

...not because I was ill, but because I worked almost exclusively in the bathroom all weekend. Saturday morning we got some stuff at the store, including a new blade for my wet saw, then headed over to the house. Papa was there after having dropped [Read More]

Yesterday, I took the day off to work on tiling the bathroom floor and to meet with contractors about some more plumbing and the hardwood floors. I want to have all our supply lines replaced; they're 50-year-old galvanized pipes, and they need to co [Read More]

I was going to blog last night, but it was quite late when we got home and my brain was too tired to come up with things to say. It did indeed rain for most of the day, but it was really only an annoyance; we got quite a bit of work done.I'm sure the [Read More]