We have finally gotten to a point with the house building process that we don’t really have anything left to think about. The plans are done. The contract with the builder is done and signed. The bank has all of the information they need and are going through their process. The finishes have all been […]
Category Archives: DIY
The Never Ending Remodel
Remember when I said that I was going to remodel the guest bathroom? No??? I wouldn’t be surprised, it was over 6 months ago. October 5th to be exact. And it was the longest remodel project of my life. When you think about it, the builders will create a whole home for us in less […]
Goodbye to Grubby Grout – Wood Tiles are Installed!
I never thought I would want such a dark floor in a bathroom, but I really liked these tiles when I passed by them about a year ago at Lowes. They have been in the back of my mind ever since, and when I saw an opportunity to put them in the bathroom: I jumped […]
Au revoir Paris – Welcome Cottage Chique
With the master bath renovation complete, and knowing how much we love it, we decided to attack the guest bath. The guest bath has the same set of challenges the master: dingy floors, textured walls, dated lighting. However unlike the master, this project was fully scoped prior to getting started. We searched Pinterest for hours […]
The All New Loo
As you know, we have been working on the bathroom for some time. Could it have been done faster? Yes. Several factors contributed to delays along the way: the fact that we have a 2nd bathroom that no one else was using, our life outside of DIY, and poor project planning to name a few. […]
Mirror mirror on the wall
As you may have guessed by the title, we got the new mirror hung in the bathroom today. With that in mind, has there ever been a more obvious title for a blog post? If there is, I’d like someone to show me. Anyway, the goal today was to get all of the grass cloth […]
Vanity Finally Goes In
I’m not going to get into the saga of how long it should or should not take a company to ship you a vanity, but let’s just leave it at our idea of reasonable is much faster than The Home Depot’s. With that being said, our new vanity officially got to the condo on Tuesday […]
Read all instructions before commencing
You know how your teacher always told you to read all instructions prior to starting your test? And inevitably there was always that one teacher that wanted to be funny and have the last question say something like “Do no answer any questions, turn in the test blank.”? Well that was our weekend, except in […]
New Lights are In
There are several designers tips for making a small space feel larger, and having the appropriate amount of light is #1. Other tricks include, keep the color pallet light (aka light wood finish, paint, and tile), using large tiles, vertical lines, separating the bottom 1/3 of the wall form the top 2/3, large crown molding, […]
All of the lights….
I think an appropriate title for the this post could also have been “All of the Lowe’s” but then I wouldn’t have had an excuse to link to one of our favorite songs. The first part of that video is a very pretty instrumental version of the rest of the song that I think everyone […]