Showing posts with label how to remodel your home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to remodel your home. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Will the Bathrooms Ever Be Done? Yup!

We had planned to tile both bathrooms this last weekend but if you've been following along, you know nothing ever goes according to plan. However, that being said, we did get all the cement board up in both bathrooms so we CAN do the tiling - probably next weekend.

Downstairs Shower

Upstairs Shower



Earlier in the week we attempted to install the cement board on the angled ceiling in the upstairs bathroom. Even after cutting more and more off, it still didn't fit right, got jammed and we ended up damaging the drywall. It is actually worse than in the pictures. It will get replaced at some point but it's not a showstopper--thank goodness.


The following picture shows how we inserted a base on the floor of the shower so that if something fell on it it wouldn't damage the shower floor. We will keep it there through tiling. Another thing I want to communicate to you is that for the cement board in the downstairs bath, we did NOT countersink the screws. Because of that the screw heads are elevated so the tiles won't be flat. We need to go back and sink the screws. We made sure we did it upstairs. Now we just need to tape, etc. and we'll be ready for tile. I can't wait.


Sunday, December 27, 2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS, ONE AND ALL!


Yeah - I know, Christmas has come and gone but what a whirlwind it was here at Hardy House. Let me tell you all about it.

But first, isn't this a cute pillow? My friend, Petra, gave it to me for Christmas a couple years ago. It sort of sums up Dave's and my philosophy on why we're doing what we're doing with Hardy House which is just because we want to and we find great enjoyment and fulfillment in working on our home. Plus we learn a lot. I suppose that's the ultimate understatement but we find it is true.