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Monday, June 5th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Demolition | 5 Comments
Apparently, all that willpower talk on Friday actually worked. When we woke up on Saturday, we both felt that restless feeling, that I’ve-got-to-do-something feeling.
So we tried to think of something to do on the house. Certainly, we have plenty of projects, but most of them require major preparation and/or purchases that haven’t been made yet […]
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Demolition | 5 Comments
We finally finished the bathroom demo! Are you proud? I’m proud.
We made all sorts of discoveries in this last leg of the demo, particulary one that will change around the whole bathroom layout - for the better, I think.
But I had cat/vet issues this morning, so I didn’t have time to upload the pics. Tomorrow, […]
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Demolition | 6 Comments
In our vigorous demolition of the bathroom this weekend, we made many discoveries. Some are good, some not so good.
The floor is both. Under the green carpet and plywood of the sink area, the original painted pine floor suffers only from a few nail holes. The brown paint is still smooth and lovely under all […]
Friday, December 30th, 2005
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Demolition | 3 Comments
Remember my fears that the bathroom would be too much for us? That it would sit unfinished - barely begun - until the end of time?
Ha. Silly me. All it took was a few hours of hard work, and the whole thing seems so much more possible.
Turns out all that tile-bashing we did was a […]
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Demolition | 7 Comments
We’ve hit a snag with the beadboard. I need to come up with a new phrase that means the same as “hit a snag” because it’s becoming a major cliche on this blog. My trusty thesaurus provides: “thump a hurdle” and “smack a holdup.”
Today Darwin decided to take me up on one of my friendly […]
