Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

The Piemaker

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms | 4 Comments

This is my attempt to be cheerful. I’ve had a run of depressing and/or dramatic posts lately, and however legitimate the drama, I think I’ve lost myself a little in all the stress. So I’m reintroducing myself to you all. Here I am during an afternoon of sanding the bathroom ceiling drywall this Saturday, before [...]

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Bicker Sweet

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Mr. and Mrs. | 6 Comments

The real purpose of the Work Day Club is not – as some would suggest – to use the appealing aroma of cheap liquor to lure friends into a nefarious plot to save a buck. We have work parties for the same reason people used to have barn raisings and husking bees – if you [...]

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Ready for Guests

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Bedrooms | 6 Comments

We took the advice of commenter Sandy on the last post and installed the toilet anyway. It’s true that a toilet isn’t that hard to install and uninstall, so we’ll just deal with it again with tile-time comes. The toilet stuck out into the floor a little farther than the old toilet, so Darwin took [...]

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Flush With Failure

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Grumpy Bear | 5 Comments

I’m an idiot. I’m just throwing that out there so you know. Remember when our half bath toilet kept leaking and leaking, and we couldn’t figure out why? When the plumbers came to do our master bath, we asked them about the other bathroom, and they diagnosed it as a cracked toilet bowl. Then the [...]

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Layers

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Stripping | 2 Comments

This weekend, I discovered my paint-scraping muscles are out of shape. Why oh why didn’t I scrape the bathroom trim at the same time I was scraping the walls? It would’ve made so much more sense. Alas, at the time I was in denial and sick to death of scraping. I thought we could just [...]

Friday, May 18th, 2007

10 Uses for a Hand Shower

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Commentary | 13 Comments

At dinner with friends a while back, I was talking about my choice to add the English Telephone hand shower attachment on my clawfoot tub. A guy – of course, it was a guy – said he didn’t see the point of hand showers. At the time, I made a not-too-convincing argument in favor of [...]

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