Hammers in walls! I don't drop hammers, I set em!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
So, this house(I'm convinced) never had a washing machine. There's a clothesline in the backyard, but there is no evidence of a washing machine or a dryer. That led me to believe that Opal(the better half of the duo before me) washed all the clothes by hand. Seriously? Who does that still? It's not like my house is from the 1800's, it was built in 1951!
So, that said, I had to figure out how to get this washer and dryer set up because I sure as hell wasn't washing clothes by hand and I'm not doing the laundromat thing. I'm a responsible adult now, right? So, I called concrete cutting companies to get estimates and they both came in at the same amount to cut an L in the floor from the utility room to the garage and remove the concrete - $1500!!!!! WHAT? NO! So, I decided to go the makeshift route and do some ghetto plumbing and make something work. PVC, a box and some PEX and voila! Ghetto washer! The dryer made it into the garage. New Mexico taught me plenty.
(This is how I wanted it to look)
This is how it turned out.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
As neat as the tile looks on the walls and all, it sure is a challenge to line things up geometrically. I certainly didn't do well at geometry in high school and this project really tested my patience and fortitude several times. I had to walk away a couple times and just clear the mind. Luckily, Ben calmed me down and got me focused again. I love the results that came of it though.
I ordered a medicine cabinet, four weeks later it came, with a cracked mirror. Ridiculous. Fixed that, put in a hotel shower rod, painted and added an exhaust fan. Now I have the bathroom of which I am decidedly proud. I really love taking a bath or shower and just looking around in amazement that a ton of hard effort and very little planning achieved. I maintained the era of house with decidedly modern materials and am very happy with the results.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Man, when you decide to use subway tile, you end up with a lot more tiles to lay down.
Still, in the end, subway tiles are some of my favorite. Classy, classic, timeless.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
The tearing out of things always seems to be the easiest. Destroying is easy. Building up is much harder. So, with the deconstruction out of the way, we set to setting tile. Mind you, I didn't do too well with geometry in high school. I was extremely lucky that Ben was there to play with angles. I had a hard time keeping a straight line with the subway tiles, but it eventually worked out. The act of setting tile itself isn't hard. I think the worst part of it all is figuring out where the partial tiles are going to end up and where you want to start/stop designs. For this whole tiling and bathroom effort, I'm eternally grateful to Ben for pushing me into this job.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Okay, after looking at the last post, I have to start down the path of jumping around with time. I saw the pictures of the bathroom and how horrid it looked before and just couldn't make you people keep looking at it.
So, as much work as the house is and everything, I have some overall picture in my head and it follows the lines of this:
But that's not how life automatically works unless you come from a family with money. I, do not. Therefore, I have to do all my work bit by bit and I won't be wandering through my kitchen with my skis while in my rockin board shorts. No, I'll be doing a grand majority of this work via myself and friends. It will probably cost me just as much in beer but it will be up to m
y lofty standards.
So, with the bathroom, I wanted to just gut the thing and start over with the exception of the bathtub. What we ended up doing was leaving most of the drywall other than the wall where we were replacing the fully rotted window. The window literally fell apart when Ben tried to knock it out of the house framing!
Here's the start of what we did:
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