Archive for the 'tile' Category

New kitchen cabinets, part one

Monday, January 26th, 2009
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Old kithen

Old kitchen One of the major projects on our new house was to put in new kitchen cabinets. We knew before buying the house that many of the lower kitchen cabinets (base cabinets) were damaged. Initially we thought we would try to buy some replacement parts, but as we realized that every base cabinet was [...]

Shelves mostly built

Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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cabinet and shelf base My last project in the long saga of the downstairs bathroom was to build some shelves where the washer and dryer used to be. The main reason for this is because we moved the laundry tub to the next room (which we now call the utility room). To do so, I [...]

Phase 3 is complete
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Grout is down. Toilet is back in

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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New vanity, tub tile, floor tile, and floor mat We finished putting the floor tile in the bathroom on Sunday, which needed at least 24 hours to cure. So we went to work like normal on Monday. I didn’t think I would have enough time to grout Monday night, so instead I put up the [...]

Order of operations
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Tile is on the floor

Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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Ready to put in some new insulation So we finished the vanity about a week ago, and had planned to do the floor tile next. Part of our bathroom project involves building some sort of shelves/cabinet where the washer and dryer used to be, since otherwise we have some empty space, and also because we [...]

Phase 2 complete
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Vanity installation finished

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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This past weekend we finally finished the vanity installation. We worked on it a bit almost every night of the week. the countertop tile is down Monday night we got home around 6:15, and brought pizza with us, so we could get working on the tile pretty quickly. I started mixing up the mortar, and [...]