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Monday, March 12th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Clawfoot | 8 Comments
My outlook is much brighter today than it was when I wrote on Thursday. How can it not be when we finished installing the clawfoot tub shower and the toilet this weekend?
The lovely, perfect, wonderful shower … oh, how I love it!
Here’s exactly what we bought to make this shower dream come true:
Strom Plumbing […]
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Clawfoot, Sink | 5 Comments
Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
So good to me (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday mornin, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh monday mornin, monday mornin couldnt guarantee (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
That monday evenin you would still be here with me
Monday wasn’t all I hoped it would be … more like half of what I wanted it to be. Thursday holds […]
Monday, September 25th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Clawfoot | 10 Comments
Heeheeheeheeeeeeeeeee! That’s the sound of me being giddy. The tub? It is painted!
I couldn’t find the “Canvas White” spray paint I wanted in any of the local stores and ended up having to order it online in a 6-pack (from Aubuchon Hardware). It arrived on Friday, and automatically Darwin and I both knew what we’d […]
Monday, September 11th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Clawfoot | 5 Comments
With all the paint finally scraped off, the rust ground off, and the residue washed off, the mottled gray hide of the clawfoot tub reminds me of a baby whale. Awww, it’s so cute and harmless now that all the hard work is done.
It has been a long saga to get to this point. […]
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Family, Clawfoot | 2 Comments
We tackled the tub on Saturday before the 3-day-long Father’s Day festivities commenced. As always, I hoped the chemical stripper would be a miracle cure, that the paint would cower at the sight of it and yield easily under the might of our scrapers.
As always, things happened a little differently. Darwin bought a “semi-paste” […]
