Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Where’s Noah When You Need Him?

posted by K | filed under Demolition, Misfortune | 3 Comments

Okay, so our flood wasn’t quite of biblical proportions. But our water heater did spring a leak and slowly, stealthily soak the subfloor in the hall, ruining it and forcing us to at last make a decision about the flooring in that area. Before we got to that point, it took several clues for us [...]

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Demolicious

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 [...]

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Bathroom Museum

posted by K | 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, particularly 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 [...]

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Potty Rot

posted by K | 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 [...]

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Sweet Progress

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Demolition | 5 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 [...]

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Bif! Thump! Smack!

posted by K | 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 D decided to take me up on one of my [...]

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