By virtue that my last post has been sitting here four months with no follow up, you could probably assume that this project got the best of me, and that it still looks like we live in a crumbling tenement building. Not so! I actually finished this project around the first of March. I am just woefully […]
Scraping off 100 pounds of painted wallpaper
It wasn’t until we had lived in this house quite a while that I realized our bedroom walls were a mess. What I initially thought was textured plaster turned out to be many layers of painted wallpaper. Wallpaper seams were showing through, both horizontal and vertical, leaving a crisscross pattern on the walls. The weird faux plaster […]
Final bathroom renovation update!
Our bathroom renovation is finally complete. This whole thing started nearly two years ago when we discovered a cracked plumbing stack, but that was really just the final and indisputable straw. You can see what this bathroom used to look like in this post from 2010. We kept all the fixtures in the same place, but we corrected […]
Upstairs bathroom update: Almost complete!
A quick bathroom renovation sneak peek. We are almost there. 95% there! Since my last update, all of the tiling is complete. We have a floor and a functional shower! Also a vanity, toilet, medicine cabinet, lights! Considering we were down to one bathroom for more than a year and a half, this is kind […]
Curtains: I met my nemesis once again and this time I won
They’ve been up for about a month, so it’s probably about time I showed you these curtains. You might have sneaked a peek of these already in my recent party post. This is not a how-to post. Making curtains is boring and tedious and if you have a lot of windows, you might be better […]
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