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I realized this weekend that we never posted any photos of the upstairs bath that we renovated in earnst last January. I realized because I found myself snapping a photo of the (almost) finished product to send off to someone at HGTV who had posted in
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The hot water was connected last night & I couldn't wait another night for the cold water so I tried the tub and loved it. Granted it's a shorter tub (4 1/2 feet), but it worked great. Once the tub is heated up it holds the heat well & it has
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We were ready to move the tub upstairs so it was time to call our friends (again)! Jon and Sean came through (the demolition party and other tasks had not yet scared them away). First they moved the tub out of the shop and up the outside stairs to our
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This morning I put the final coat of mud on the upstairs bathroom walls, and now I'm just waiting for it to dry enough for a light sanding and paint. Do they make "hot topping mud"??? I didn't see any at the HD. Maybe I should go read the installation
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Since we have everything out of the upstairs bathroom and we are close to re-installing fixtures, we decided to go ahead and buy a new toilet. We were planning on putting a Toto Aquia toilet in the new 1/2 bath on the first floor, but since our upstairs
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Okay. So I got talked into mudding and taping the new drywall in the upstairs bath, such that it could be painted and look cozy and stuff. Have I mentioned I’m not very fond of mudding and taping? With the possible exception of a few comical moments where
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My dad makes a yearly trip to Seattle specifically to help me out with the remodel. He typically comes in the summer, and I generally have an itinerary of projects for us to tackle during his week-long stay. On his first visit three years ago we got my
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Nick used a wire brush cup attachment for the grinder to clean up the outside of the tub, and used chemical stripper on the feet. They turned out great! Then he primed them: and then put the first coat of paint on, using Rustoleum spray paint: That soak
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On Sunday I began to remove some of the non-bearing stud walls on the first floor. We’re moving things around a bit, and the first wall to come down was between the kitchen and the foyer. In order to get it down completely, I had one obstacle to deal
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It was a busy weekend here in Pigeon Point. Saturday said goodbye to the kitchen (many thanks to our demolition crew: Eric, Sasha, and Justin; you guys rock!), Sunday we junked the furnace, and Monday we trashed the foyer. Up until this weekend we were
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