tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66130770080930788812024-02-07T21:19:35.817-05:00home is where the couch isour first house. her big plans. his hard work.Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-2677330818170345942015-02-11T11:19:00.001-05:002020-06-12T15:19:15.831-04:00Man. <br />
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After renovating our back room, we had renovation burn out. We still have a few things to finish in the back - some wood trim around the fireplace, painting the French doors, installing a guide for the sliding bathroom doors and finishing the step to the dining room. We think about it...and then we go stick our heads in some trivial pursuit like browsing the internet.<br />
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This renovation did do something to my head though. Having a dining room full of stuff for so long made me realize how much unnecessary junk we've been holding on to. After we cleaned up, I started selling things, donating or tossing stuff that just took up space. I painted everything white. I just needed things to be clean and empty.<br />
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I got rid of a china cabinet, piano, humungous desk (which The Man is still not happy about, but seriously, we just put papers on it and it was huge), extra beds, dressers. I can't even remember everything I've thrown out the door.<br />
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Things that I've been pondering lately is our obsession as a culture of consumerism. Since our reno, I've been reading minimalist blogs like Becoming Minimalist, miss minimalist, The Minimalists, and other blogs on mindfulness and being aware of what we are doing with our money and time. The Man recently handed me a book called The 4 Hour Work Week and even though I barely have started it, it's about how to make money, work smart and enjoy life, rather than the focus on being make money to buy stuff.<br />
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We as a society are often taught to grow up, get married, have kids, buy a big house, fill it with stuff, shove it full to the brim with crap you don't need, upgrade, always upgrade, put yourself in debt buying things, it'll make you happy, and then, what? Save up to go on vacation and get away from your burdensome life? I'm tired of living like this. My goals aren't to have tons of stuff, but they're to have stuff that I like, stuff that I use, stuff that makes me happy and doesn't require a ton of my space and time to maintain it.<br />
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So I'm revamping my mindset. Sure, I love decorating and renovating. We're probably not going to stop having projects because as a couple, that's what we like to do. We like improving things. But I'm going to try and not fill up those renovated spaces with useless items, unless they bring me absolute joy to look at them.<br />
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My goal is to have a home that has things we need and love, not things that we have for the sake of having them. Things take up psychic space in your brain. Don't you feel better when you've cleaned and purged a room? Objects hold onto you. I'm done with that. I want to be in control of my things, not have them in control of me. <br />
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This is a work in progress of course. I recently heaved everything up from the basement and once again filled my dining room up with everything. (I don't have a garage. One would be handy to have.) My basement is a dungeon. It has fieldstone walls, a really crappy cement floor and smells musty. We have our washer, dryer and small freezer down there along with the mechanics of the house. It's not very big, it doesn't go all the way under my house, just the foyer and kitchen. So it can get crowded. It also have almost all of the Man's tools down there. Let me tell you, he has a lot. And he <em>needs</em> every single one of them. <br />
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Sometimes I get frustrated. I have a table saw and mitre saw in my dining room all the time because they're too big to get into the basement. Sometimes I think, why do we have this house, that is soon going to be too big for 2 people once we become empty nesters. It doesn't have a garage, my kitchen hasn't been fixed up in 40+ years, my basement smells even with two humidifiers running in it, I also have a treadmill in my dining room (poor thing) that belongs in a basement...why do I live in an older home when I really need a subdivision house?? <br />
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And then I step into my backyard which is filled with trees and a creek running through it and I'm a 10 minute walk from downtown and the majority of my neighbours are great (except for the screamy nutbar across the street).<br />
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I'm so torn.Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-84651519339409943102015-02-11T11:14:00.000-05:002020-06-12T15:19:16.812-04:00RecuperationWe've been living with our beautiful back room for a few months now. I think after a year and a half of renovating, we're now in do nothing mode. Recuperating.<br />
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One thing that has come out of this reno is a change of mindset for me. With our dining room looking like a hoarders house during our renovation, I've found that the weight of stuff has literally been weighing down my psyche. Things and crowded spaces have been making my mind feel heavy. I've been feeling like I need space to think.<br />
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So, I actually haven't just been doing nothing. I've been purging. Our dining room - pre-reno - had our dining room table and chairs, a china cabinet, piano and library card catalogue in it. Oh, and a treadmill. That's a lot of stuff for one room. So crowded and full of places to hide junk.<br />
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I went through my china cabinet and was fairly deliberate and mindful about what I was going to keep and what I was going to get rid of.<br />
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Table cloths, craft supplies I never used, knick knacks, candles. All of these things went. Honestly, I never used these things and they were just something I had to clean or organize. Out they all went. Along with the china cabinet.<br />
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The piano that loomed large and dark, although it was fairly cool looking - gone. The piano bench - gone. The yellow paint that had been on the walls for the last 11 years. Gone and repainted white. Currently, I just feel I need to paint everything white so that I can breathe. I love colour and am <i>sure </i>I will change it up when I find I get to the place where I can focus and am ready to add colour substance to the house. But for now, white is calling.<br />
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I've been reading and researching minimalism for the last few months. I've been reading blogs and books, reading real life accounts of peoples journeys of getting rid of things, of peoples attachment to stuff and how it affects you. It's been pretty eye opening and interesting on how our society pushes you to buy and that you need, when there is a whole different way of living. Like, have only the things you love and use.<br />
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Now I'm not saying I'm planning on getting rid of everything in my house and only want to own 100 things. That kind of minimalism is a little extreme for me. But I do want to begin to go through my house with a harsh eye and get rid of the junk that weighs me down.<br />
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After going through my china cabinet and tossing or donating over half the stuff in there, I thought, am I going to miss any of this? I don't. I had a bit of a hard time getting rid of the candles - I don't know why, they're cheap enough to re-buy. But my boy helped me out by pyroing the whole lot of them and making such a mess they needed to be tossed. The freedom I felt was great. Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-56043983059850494782014-09-14T12:31:00.000-04:002020-06-12T15:19:16.372-04:00Search: Fireplace Surround Slanted CeilingWe're not professionals at all but we get by. We do what I think a lot of DIYers do - google the crap out of what we need to know how to do.<br />
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One thing that we couldn't find anything about is how to build a fireplace surround that goes all the way to the ceiling when your ceiling is a slanted ceiling. I am an expert Google searcher and I could find <i>nothing</i>. So here's what <strike>we</strike> the Man did if you need to build one and haven't a clue how to start.<br />
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Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-54536374529563181652013-01-11T16:45:00.000-05:002020-06-12T15:19:16.275-04:00Almost done. For realz.All of a sudden, everything seems done and all that's left to do is organize all my crap and clean the rest of the house that we've treated like a construction zone.<br />
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Remembering that my camera is broken and all I have is my ipod to take photos with, here's what's been going on. Also, this blog is for us to document all the things we do to our house...so be prepared for lots of photos of what may seem like the same thing, but isn't.<br />
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Last I left you, the floor had gone in and was beautiful. Now it has a bit more character after being in our house for a while. You know, tools falling and us scraping stuff across the floor. We're not used to being careful with such nice things in the back room.<br />
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The Man started to work on our bookshelves. We used 5 Billy bookshelves from Ikea and the rest he built and modified. One of the specifications that we wanted <span style="font-size: x-small;">*cough* <i>I </i>wanted *cough*</span> was a secret door that went into the crawl space above the bathroom. An old house = sucky storage. The other was that I wanted it to look built in.<br />
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First he built a base to raise it so that we could use our 7" baseboard that we had all around the room.<br />
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This continued in front of the place where the door to the kitchen went. The one we blocked up.<br />
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Then he started placing the Billy bookcases on the base. Here you can see the storage space above the bookshelf and the blocked up doorway.<br />
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Somehow I missed taking photos of the Man building all the bookshelves above the Ikea bookshelves, so - Magic!<br />
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We hemmed and hawed as to how to cover the edges. Especially since we used plywood and the layered look did not appeal to my perfectionist husband. Renos cost lots and lots of money so we trudged down into the dungeon and scrounged around to find old mdf beadboard pieces from our upstairs bathroom reno. The mdf got turned around to the flat side and that is what was used to trim all the edges. Money saved!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't know why, but Ikea's 'white' furniture is pee yellow. It all had to be painted. With lovely oil based primer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note the cute little shelf that was built to match up to the other ones? No idea what we'll put in there. Maybe we'll have to start collecting something.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just so you know, this is mostly all from my father. He has a movie addiction but is a minimalist and gives everything away. Of course we're not going to say no, it's always fun to get a box of 20 movies every few months!</td></tr>
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So that is our bookshelf that I absolutely LOVE. I will leave you with a sneak peek of what it looks like mostly filled up with furniture on this side of the room. I'm currently organizing (that's why it's messy) and just though I'd take a break and a photo to show you.<br />
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<br />Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-34898541692591792112012-11-23T17:08:00.002-05:002020-06-12T15:19:15.978-04:00Pushing forwardWe've been trying to push ourselves to get this back addition done by Christmas. So we've been doing lots of stuff and I'm way too lazy to write about it all, so here's some photos. And they're not even nice photos cause my camera decided it's had enough, so you're stuck with photos from my ipod. :-D<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the tiny pieces of shim the Man cut to level the floor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From 2 inches down to 5/32</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We marked every foot on every shim and levelled using the little shims</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then the Man cut strips of wood that were the proper heights and leveled the Entire. Floor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Superior flooring. Black Walnut au Natural</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>beautifully </i>leveled floor just before the hardwood went down</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And after!! Instant gratification. Done in 7 hours.</td></tr>
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Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-35028140520868947332012-09-19T15:15:00.001-04:002020-06-12T15:19:16.026-04:00Coffee Table and Crooked FloorThe Man is currently in the hoarder dining room, searching for a cord that may or may not be in a box, all the while cleaning the box out. He's coming into the back room every few minutes to show me something he's found or ask if I want to keep something. I've told him to just make one of the boxes for me and toss all my crap in there but, oh, here he comes again to show me something else...silly guy.<br />
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I'm sitting on my butt avoiding what must be done. The shimming of the floor.<br />
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Last week I had some flooring guys in the give me some quotes on the back room floor. I also asked them, hoping and praying that they had some miraculous magic thing that would make our floor level without us having to put any effort into it. Gah. Life would be too easy. There's no such thing.<br />
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Half of our floor is fine. It's pretty level. But then right in the middle of the room, there's a bump and it all goes downhill from there. Literally. What do you do when your floor needs to be leveled? You shim it. What does that require? Lots of painstaking perfectionist nitpicky work. I'm not looking forward to it. Neither of us are. Hence the cleaning and avoiding.<br />
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Some other exciting thing happened to me. Well, exciting to me. I'm a kijiji furniture addict. That's when I check kijiji every day just in case there's some amazing deal that the people of Peterborough or Lindsay have tossed out into the interwebs for me to covet. Not like I need any furniture. I need to get rid of some...anyone want a china cabinet and buffet? It's going to go on kijiji.<br />
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I love the hunt. You never know when there will be some awesome treasure on there! A few weeks ago, there was 4 'wire chairs' up for $50.00. Wire chairs that looked exactly like Bertoia Side Chairs. Exactly. I called him up, said I'll come and get them. He said, they're at my dads, he's gone for a few days, I'll let you know when to come. He took the ad off kijiji and I was soo excited. A few days later, I have a truck lined up, I texted and asked when I could come and get them. Oh, they're sold. Grr.<br />
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So the other day, I saw this coffee table. It looked just like a Noguchi Coffee table. For 30 bucks. I'm okay with reproductions. 30 bucks is reasonable. Maybe it's real, maybe it's not. So, I went for a little drive and now I have one. It's a little banged up, but what I really love about it is how it fits with my couch. Yay!<br />
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I'm slowly, slowly making this house mine. Growing up, my mum was all about the Country look. When you get out onto your own, sometimes you retain what you were brought up with and it takes a while to shake that off and figure out what you love. I'm slowly realizing I love clean lines and that mid-century look with a bit of quirk. I took this awesome design test called <a href="http://www.homegoods.com/stylescope/" target="_blank">Stylescope</a>. I think it's pretty bang on for just picking 5 images that appeal to you. <a href="http://www.homegoods.com/stylescope/" target="_blank">Try it</a>! I made my mother do it - New Country with a touch of Traveler - my daughter do it - Sassy with a touch of Traveler - my husband do it - New Country with a touch of Set Sail and for me - Urban Funk with a touch of Boho.<br />
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I'm really loving the clean look of my living room. In comparison to my hoarder room, it's a haven! <br />
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Part of making this house mine is getting that bloody floor level. I better get my feet off of this coffee table and get working...Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-62347735144019251312012-09-11T10:56:00.003-04:002020-06-12T15:19:16.666-04:00SectionalsI finally sold my two hunter green couches, couches that I had bought a week before my first kiddo was born. I had them on kijiji for months and didn't get a bite. So I took some new photos in front of my newly sandblasted wall and the next day I had two people after them! They were gone the next day - sweet!! <br />
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So now I'm currently on an internet hunt for a sectional. Preferably not the kind with the chaise. That doesn't feel like a true sectional to me. One of my many pet peeves. I realize it comes in sections, but I want to be able to sit anywhere and have something holding up my back.<br />
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<li>It's going to go in a fairly small space. The maximum length it can be is 100" and the depth is around 65-70". That makes it kind of tough since sectionals can be ginormous.</li>
<li>Thin arms to allow for more butt space.</li>
<li>Dark grey fabric. If it has slip covers, even better.</li>
<li>I'm torn as to whether it should have pillow backs or not. They're aren't my favourite. I often see after a few years they look all slumpy and messy. So I would prefer for it to have a sturdy, solid back.</li>
<li>I love the mid century modern look. I like a bit of a plain look too so that it will last for another 18 years. I'm cheap. I don't like having to buy expensive furniture.</li>
<li>Not so expensive that I need to sell a kid.</li>
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Here's what I found so far:<br />
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This is the Lure Sectional from Urban Barn. It comes in different configurations. The one that I like and that would fit in my house is the One Arm Sofa Return with a One Arm Half Chair. Price: $2360 plus tax.<br />
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The next on is the Ikea Karlstad sectional in Sivik Dark Grey. It's too big though. I wish Ikea would let us buy the corner piece separately so that I could buy the couch, corner and armchair to create my own sectional...do you hear me Ikea?! I want to a 'create your own sectional' option!! Price: $999 plus tax.<br />
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This is part of the Steven and Chris Collection. It comes in a bunch of configurations. One that would work for me is to purchase a corner, two chairs (which become the ends of the sectional) and an armless chair. I'm also not quite sure what fabric it comes in, but it seems that you can choose if you come into the store. Price: too afraid to ask.<br />
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So, that's where I'm at in my search. I'm just avoiding levelling the floor and doing some fun stuff that takes little effort.Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-3741604385690119022012-08-26T20:35:00.001-04:002020-06-12T15:19:16.075-04:00Let the painting commence!I'm currently laying on the couch drinking something full of glucose-fructose and vodka, trying to rest my aching neck. I have been painting all weekend and it's been <i>great</i>! Even though I'm sore and hungry and wish someone would feed me, I look around and sigh happy sighs cause it's starting to look like a real house!
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Most nights, before I go to sleep, I lay in bed and redesign my house. I paint and buy furniture and pull up floors and put in a new kitchen - cause of course I have an endless amount of money in my dreams - and then I wake up in the morning and walk through a mess of a house. How can this be? It was beautiful just before I fell asleep... Because of this I also have an unrealistic sense of how long things will take. Obviously, if it takes an hour or so at night for my brain to reconfigure my house, then other things in real life should be just as quick, right?</div>
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When the Man started mudding and sanding, I thought, "Oh, this will just take a week or so and I can paint next weekend." Hahaha. Three<i> looong</i> weeks later...I was finally pulling on my painting clothes and painting!<br />
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I have to say that he did a pretty good job - actually an excellent job - but we are<b> never doing this again</b>. Any mudding and sanding is going to be hired out. It causes so much stress and frustration and more than too much swearing at each other and it's not worth our marriage. Frustration for me because I want it done faster and I want it perfect. Stress on him because I'm pressuring him and he also wants it perfect. He does, honest.<br />
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And gave the ceiling one more coat, filling in the cracks that didn't get painted. Filling in <i>allll</i> those cracks. Reaching up and looking up and pushing paint into the cracks. That's where the sore neck came from.<br />
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When I was done, the Man went out to buy some 2x4's so he can get started on the fireplace surround AND flooring guys are coming soon to give me some quotes. That's another thing that I want to pay someone to do. They'll be able to do it in a day (is that an unrealistic timeline?) but it would take us months. And we'd have to rent tools for multiple days - like that thing you smack with a hammer. By then end of it, it would've been cheaper for us to hire someone and we would still like each other. Which is the final goal, to continue to like each other through this reno. :-)Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-42941720015299476322012-08-02T13:00:00.000-04:002020-06-12T15:19:16.123-04:00Just a nudge<div style="text-align: center;">
That's all I had to give him and he started on the mudding and sanding!</div>
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This is an issue I've been having. The Man needs to finish the drywall and he's stalling and although I do a lot of things, this isn't something I'm good at. I'm good at broad, not needing to be perfect things. Like painting and sandblasting, destroying things and dreaming up big ideas. Mudding and sanding is finicky and a better job for a perfectionist.<br />
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So I've been trying to 'motivate' him. Nagging doesn't work, leaving him alone doesn't work. Neither does crying, begging and pleading. Threatening to do it myself <i>kind of works</i> and I think I'm going to have to get out the tools for it to actually happen. <br />
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I realize it's summer and it's so beautiful out there. You want honesty? This is what I'm tired of.<br />
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It looks like I'm a hoarder.<br />
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I like stuff, but this is crazy. This is my empty back room all shoved into my dining room. This is all our tools and construction stuff. Look! There's even a path, just like hoarders have. <br />
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I have even debated hiring someone, but number one - we're cheap. Number two - the majority of people we hire, we are not very impressed with their work and end up fixing it.<br />
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This is our floor that we paid to make sure it was level along with rearranging our walls. Something else we have to fix.<br />
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So, if you know an amazing, cheap drywaller and you actually have seen his work and know that there's no bumps, the tape is not visible and there's no bubbles in the finished product, let me know. I'm getting desperate and may actually put out some cash for this to get done.<br />
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See that white sand? That is what I just shoveled out of my back room. Out of <i>my house</i>. </div>
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It was hard work. I scraped with metal scrapers, used chemical peels, used a wire metal drill attachment and even telekinesis to try and strip the paint from the wall. The paint fought hard but I finally beat it with sand. And a sandblaster.<br />
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It wasn't my first choice. Obviously I tried lots of things and when the only soda blaster guy I could find around Peterborough quoted me $1200.00 (whatever!) I finally gave in and used the thing I didn't want to use. Sandblasting leaves pits in the brick, especially when the brick is over 100 years old. And it leaves buckets of sand all through the house. But I really hated that paint and I was desperate. <br />
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I went in to the Rent All place to order the sandblaster. A guy showed me how to use it. Easy peasy. I asked that it be delivered before I got home from work at 3. I get home and what do I see? Nothing. I was <i>not </i>impressed. Finally at around 4:30, my compressor and sandblaster are here, set up but not quite running.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Compressor finally in my driveway</td></tr>
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The delivery guy leaves and I start up the air. Nothing is coming out from the sandblaster. I move stuff around, wiggle valves around...nothing but air. I begin to have a small conniption. I call the Rent All place. They're closed. How convenient. Deliver it late and then I can't call for help. Unimpressed Me is stomping around, trying to figure this out. There are phone calls to my Little Brother because he's good with machines and a bit of screaming at the Man. I am heartbroken. I just want this to work and I want the paint off the wall. I don't care how dirty and sore I have to get but I want it done <b>today</b>. (I may or may not be going through perimenopause which according to Dr.Oz, can cause rages. Or I just may be kind of crazy. Whatever the case is, my rages are kind of funny, but not really if you're getting the brunt of it.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just one of the many piles of sand IN MY HOUSE.</td></tr>
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Suddenly it worked! The Man had fixed it. My hero. He saw that the delivery guy had the hoses in the wrong place, switched them around and voila, sand blasting out from a hose. A few hours later and the paint was gone.<br />
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Some things I've learned:
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<li>Sandblasting is fun. </li>
<li>Sandblasting is really messy.</li>
<li>If you sandblast in your house, you will need to take breaks because you will not be able to see anything due to the amazing amount of dust. It will look like your house is blowing smoke out its windows.</li>
<li>You should probably wear ear protection even though you think it's not
that loud. The zinging of the sand makes your ears ring like you've been
at a concert.</li>
<li>Sand gets <i>everywhere</i>. But I'm sure I knew that from previous beach experiences.</li>
</ul>Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-13149099497701494692012-06-25T13:38:00.000-04:002020-06-12T15:19:15.707-04:00We are done putting up the ceiling!!<br />
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This is super exciting to me. I am tired of seeing the green-grey Roxul, tired of lifting my arms above my head, tired of trying to shove the tongue into the groove because we've salvaged the wood from two rooms and they aren't the same size...but now we're done.<br />
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It still needs to be painted one last time, but that will be when everything is almost done and I'll paint everything all at once.<br />
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Now to change my focus. Onto removing the paint from the brick walls.<br />
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I've tried a few things to get this paint off. Paint stripper, a metal thing for the drill and good ol' scrubbing with a metal brush, which seems to work the best.<br />
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We're also going to be focusing on the fireplace and building the surround.<br />
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This is my photoshop mock up of what I have to work with:<br />
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I have some ideas as to how I want it to look and thanks to Pinterest, they're all pinned in one spot. Here's what I like when I think fireplace in the back addition...<br />
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Texture?</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/1027834?d=0&w=186584" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">houzz.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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Thin layers?</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/contemporary/kids/start=136" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">houzz.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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Rough Wood?</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.trendir.com/interiors/rustic-fireplace-designs-ideas-by-modus.html#more" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">trendir.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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Grey Brick?</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.bhg.com/home-improvement/remodeling/before-and-after/then-again-home-design/?sssdmh=dm17.547526&esrc=nwdc090711a&email=3690406140#page=5" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">bhg.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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Stones with a mantel?</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/p/104" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">houzz.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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Grey Concrete and Texture?</div>
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Source: <a href="http://freshome.com/2011/02/03/modern-residence-overlooking-the-north-bay-by-prentiss-architects/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">freshome.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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White? Nice solid sitting stoop though.</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/tips-for-using-a-wide-angle-lens-super-photo-magic-school-169771" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">apartmenttherapy.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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More stone with a mantel and tile on the floor?</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.bhg.com/home-improvement/remodeling/budget-remodels/weekend-home-projects/?sssdmh=dm17.592628&esrc=nwhi041912&email=3561907808" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">bhg.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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Even more stone with a mantel and sitting stoop?</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.hgtv.com/living-rooms/natural-stone-fireplaces/pictures/index.html" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">hgtv.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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More Stone?</div>
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<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/196258496231143528/" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="600" src="http://media-cache-ec4.pinterest.com/upload/196258496231143528_0EZpZkDu_c.jpg" width="408" /></a></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/71221/Residence-contemporary-family-room-san-francisco" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">houzz.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/terriduff/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Terri</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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For Mother's Day <i>this </i>year I asked that the hillbilly shed be taken down. It had been on our deck for almost the entire year and I was so sick of looking at it, you have no idea. I missed the pear tree blooming because I couldn't see through the tarp. <br />
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Last year, this is what the right side of our back room looked like. <br />
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Then we ripped it all out and it looked like...<br />
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And now we have a pretty bathroom that we all love. All it needs is a mirror, which I have been slowly trying to hunt down...I'm looking for a 4x4 mirror that is not going to cost me my first born as much as she's a hormonal teenager and some days I would love to give her away.<br />
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We're currently working on our ceiling. If you remember, C took down our previous ceiling. It was all tongue and groove cedar. I sanded and painted them and we were crossing our fingers that we had enough. Well, we don't. We're about 14 rows short and huh, most places don't carry them anymore.<br />
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C had some common sayings during this reno.<br />
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"This is going to be a challenge."<br />
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This ceiling has been a challenge in that we discovered they used 2 different sizes of tongue and groove and whadda ya know, they don't fit into each other. I guess that's what happens when you take down the ceiling from two different rooms...<br />
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Well, we are now all about challenges. I may have found a place that carries this T&G. It may be an hour away, but we will overcome! <br />
<br />Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-59492462965117480952012-03-20T19:15:00.001-04:002020-06-12T15:19:16.543-04:00Aquadis ShowerWhen I was researching showers - because I research everything - I couldn't find anything on the shower I was choosing. It was risky buying something that may suck. We've only had it for a week or so, but I have opinions on it already. Surprise.<br />
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We bought a rain shower head/hand held because we couldn't agree on only buying a shower system with either one or the other. Looking around trying to find one in our price range was hard and we found this one at Home Hardware for $179.00. At the time it was a special package they had put out specifically for Home Hardware. Recently when I checked their site I saw they had upped the price to $330.00. Still not a bad price for what you get.<br />
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First off, I love the look of it. It looks nice in the shower. It's shiny and clean looking.<br />
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I love the shower head. I've been under a few different waterfall shower heads and it's comparable. Not super efficient, I can drain the hot water from my water heater after a while...like 20-25 minutes or so. I don't usually take that long of showers, but it's <i>really </i>nice.<br />
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The hand held has 3 settings. This is something the Man likes to use. Its settings range from massage to soft, you know, the usual. It has a pretty long cord. Our shower is 5 feet and it can almost touch the far wall. That's what I've used it for, to clean the shower.<br />
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The handle is the only thing that is not very well thought out. When you turn on the water, you pull it out. That's normal. But the handheld is what automatically goes on and if you want the shower head to go on, you pull out the knob. I don't know, I would think it should be reversed. Especially if you hadn't watched where you aimed the hand held the last time you used it and you get a face full of freezing cold water...<br />
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If you're the type that likes the handle to go back to the original position - aimed down - the handle and the knob don't have a lot of space in between them. We've been leaving the handle at the temperature we like, which is slightly slanted, and pulling it out from there. If you have fat fingers, you're not going to get your hand in between the knob and handle.<br />
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I don't think we have the handle upside down, we did get a plumber to put it in, but the handle has a little red/blue thingy that you put in the handle to know which way to turn. Not that you can see it, it's under the handle.Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-85988649989141168082012-03-19T21:26:00.000-04:002020-06-12T15:19:16.910-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">I've been slacking on the blog, but I haven't been slacking on the bathroom - it's almost done!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">What have we done in the last little while?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We put in the in floor heating, which I regret we didn't do in our upstairs bathroom and if we ever tile somewhere again, will make sure it's under the tile. It is awesome!</div><div style="text-align: center;">We also finished tiling the floor. </div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poured Self Levelling Concrete. Scariest thing ever. It's so runny and you think, "What if this doesn't set right?"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laid Ditra Membrane. When your floor is wiggling around slightly from regular humidity, this keeps your tile safe from cracking. And it's waterproof.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We finished the tiling of the 10 million subway tiles. Well, maybe 850, but still. It took around 30 hours for me to finish.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9 hours later..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Started on the tiles. We used a board under the second row so it would be level. johnbridge.com was indispensable.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Around 8 hours of work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All done laying the tile!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just testing to see how the showerhead and stuff looks..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grouted</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the instructions and parts that came with the shower doors. Most organized thing I have ever seen.</td></tr>
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Put up window film.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Made sure we finished all the window and baseboard trim. We find that if we don't do it before the essentials it doesn't get done. Just like the one in the upstairs bathroom is waiting for me to finish it 2 years later...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ignoring all the crap on the floor, this is the view from the door.</td></tr>
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I just ordered the tap for the sink, off of ebay, thanks to the thriftiness of one of my super thrifty derby girls. I would never have thought of doing that. Once we get that, we'll install it and the sink, put in the toilet and we'll be done!!Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-58354232886520560482011-12-10T15:49:00.001-05:002020-06-12T15:19:16.420-04:00love my listsI'm a list girl. I have lists all over the house. Grocery lists, lists for things I have to do that day, that week, that month, supper lists...So of course, I have a list for the work we're doing in the back addition this month. I am determined to at least have a bathroom by the new year. Or at least a toilet.<br />
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My lists can be adjusted, I'm not so anal that they are written in stone. Which is a good thing because we're already a little behind. We were <i>supposed </i>to be mudding all the drywall screw holes and papering all the edges and corners this week. We were also supposed to be finishing putting up the drywall, but we ran out of drywall sheets. So instead of doing what was on the list, I was emailing and calling around for a truck or trailer large enough to put drywall into. Thank goodness for friends that we haven't seen in months that don't mind us mooching their truck. <br />
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I did get most of the bathroom door primed and painted. I'm pretty happy with it - it looks great and you can't tell where the door holes were unless you're looking really hard. Hopefully this week I'll be able to get the coats painted...it is on the list of things to do.<br />
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I <u>did</u> put in all the Schlutter Kerdi and I am pretty stinkin' proud of myself. If you don't know what it is - it's messy and time consuming, that's what it is. It's basically an orange membrane that you mortar onto your shower walls, floor, curb...anywhere water will hit. If you have a leak in between your tiles, the kerdi membrane will keep the water in and the water will just flow down to your drain, because you've kerdied the crap out of everything. I think it took me 8 hours give or take. I could <i>kind</i> of stand up straight when I was done...<br />
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We also put down the in floor heating wires. Well, the Man did that while I went out with the girls. I didn't thoroughly research everything like I usually do and didn't realize that I needed to prime the floor before we put self leveling compound down so that the compound can meld to the floor, gah, so the heating cables were down when I rolled on the primer. I hope that's okay, I don't want to invest all this work just so my tiles can crack!<br />
<br />Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-54666406531168824352011-12-03T20:32:00.001-05:002020-06-12T15:19:16.324-04:00How to lock the bathroom doorWe have been busy beavers this weekend. Even with the Roller Derby World Cup streaming live from Toronto!! I wish I had been able to get tickets, but this reno just sucks the money out of our bank account. <br />
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We've created a game plan for the next few weeks. We would have LOVED it if we had been able to finish this back addition before winter hit, but we now know we're really slow workers. And man, it's going to look good!!<br />
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I've been online looking at pocket door privacy locks. There isn't much out there that is affordable.<br />
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There's the ugly round ones</div>
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The bulky square and rectangle ones</div>
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The really crazily expensive ones that I don't think are worth it for a bathroom door</div>
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And the one that we're going to use. Mid range. Looks good enough but not too ugly.</div>
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I'm reusing our old bathroom door. </div>
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It's solid wood and still in good shape and I plan on painting it white cause, you know, paint hides a multitude of sins. There was an issue though. When I printed off the template for any of the privacy locks, the previous door holes were too far from the edge and none of the new locks would have covered them up. What to do?<br />
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I found a great answer on yahoo answers.<br />
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I filled in the mortise area with a similar sized piece of wood and glued it in. After it set, I filled in any area that the wood didn't fill and shoved as much wood filler in there as possible. Sand, prime and paint. I make it sound so easy. Could be because I'm still at the sand and refill section...<br />
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The addition now looks like a real house!!</div>
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Now we have to figure out where we're working next. Currently, we have an extra teenager in the house and having another useable bathroom, even if it was just the toilet and sink would be awesome! Hopefully that will be the plan cause having to wait an hour till you can pee in the morning is torture.</div>
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You have no idea how exciting this is for me.</div>
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Look who has siding!!</div>
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The Man has been working outside nailing up 2x4's around the window so that my little brother can put some aluminum or something around them to give them the framed look. The little brother says you don't need wood underneath, that he can just bend the metal so that it looks framed. But honestly? This is us and we're awfully good at banging into things. That metal will be dented like crazy if there's nothing underneath to keep it solid.<br />
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We have a visitor for a few days. Another teenager. I don't know how long they're going to be here but this should be interesting. Three teenagers and two adults with one bathroom. We better get crackin' and finish this thing so that none of us kills each other over cold showers!!<br />
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When we had a contractor here to work on our addition, the main thing we wanted was for our floors to be level and not bouncy and for everything to be structurally sound. Well, the floor in the bathroom is still bouncy. Grr. There's nothing we can do now except put another piece of plywood on top to strengthen it. I plan on doing the tiling and I will cry if they crack from bouncy underlayment. It's bad enough that I opened the tiles the other day and they were the wrong colour. And I can't return them. I did cry actually.<br />
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What happened was I got a super great deal through WagJag. I went in and I could have<i> sworn</i> that we looked up the tiles my brother had gotten and ordered the same ones. So I didn't check my tiles when I picked them up <b>8 months ago</b>. I<i> assumed</i> that they were correct. I know, I know, when you assume, you make an ass out of u and me. So anyway, I opened them and they are really dark. Like black. And if you saw my previous post, I bought a dark Ikea vanity. So it's dark on dark. I'm trying to look at it that it's going to be a very masculine bathroom. I'm so disappointed because I hate walking in a room and just hating something every day. That's what's going to happen. I'm just going to hate it. Every. Single. Day. <br />
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I know I pick on the Man for being a perfectionist, but this is <i>my </i>issue. Things don't have to be perfect, but they have to at least look like the image I've had in my head for 2 years. This doesn't. I don't have the money to go and buy new tiles. I keep looking at the receipt and going online and checking to see if somehow there was a mistake, but I can't find it. I'm debating at going into the tile store and looking at their tile board for this tile and see if there was a mistake on it saying it was one colour instead of the other. I just don't think I would've picked this colour!! I even have a photo of the one I wanted on my ipod! Maybe I should go in, just to cover all the bases. I'm ranting now, sorry. Arg. I'm just so disappointed. <br />
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I did go to the store. I thought for sure their tile board was incorrect. But it was me. I ordered the wrong tiles. What to do? Well, I've decided I'm not going to live with it. I'm going to take apart my Ikea vanity and return it and get a white vanity. Good thing I like putting Ikea furniture together! Can't say I'm going to like taking it apart though.<br />
You may think I'm nuts, but honestly, there's some things I can't live with and I would rather do things that feel like a hassle rather than regret it every time I went pee. I haven't told the Man yet; he'll probably tell me to just leave it and don't worry about it. But this is who I am. He nitpicks about things 1/8" out of place, I nitpick about colour.<br />
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yup. He told me to leave it, that he's fine with the two dark colours. Where's my ikea hex key??Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-82275968772824797302011-10-19T10:44:00.001-04:002020-06-12T15:19:16.764-04:00Ikea bathroom vanitiesI love putting Ikea furniture together. It's like lego for adults. If you <i>ever</i> need help putting your Ikea purchases together, give me a call.<br />
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The Man needed to be picked up from the airport, so after I found him wandering around looking lost, we stopped at Ikea to pick up our bathroom vanity.<br />
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In our previous bathroom reno, we bought a Godmorgon vanity with a Braviken sink.<br />
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I love the design of the vanity. I love that you have drawers that utilize all the space possible, instead of cupboards that just waste space. Our upstairs bathroom is very small and we needed as much creative storage as possible. After going through the bathroom and getting rid of a garbage bag worth of junk, everything we need fits in that vanity.<br />
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For our new downstairs bathroom, we bought the Godmorgon again, but this time we're getting a different sink. They didn't have this kind previously. Maybe they did elsewhere, but not at the Ikea I went to. <br />
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We purchased the Odensvik sink with only one bowl. It's a bit deeper and since we bought a much wider vanity, the sink has some space on the sides! One con about the Braviken is that the sink expands to almost both side edges, not leaving a whole lot of room for hair dryers and straighteners...<br />
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We thought about trying to float the cabinet. They show that a lot in their catalogue, but that thing is super heavy and I can just envision it crashing down one day, so we'll use their legs. They're handy anyway when you have uneven floors since the legs are adjustable. It was very helpful when we did our reno upstairs with our sloping floors. This downstairs floor should be much more level.<br />
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So that's what I did this week. Along with help the Man drywall the bathroom ceiling and bring in all the main room ceilings tongue and groove. It's been sitting under our hillbilly garage waiting until we have room to store it inside again. I've been looking at it and debating what I'm going to do with it - besides put it back up on the ceiling. I think I'm going to paint it white. For those of you gasping with horror. Stop. It's starting to feel brittle and at least the paint will hold it together. Plus it's in that older honey shade which is <i>not</i> going to work in this room. Get over it.<br />
<br />Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-30191190623553403272011-10-05T15:26:00.001-04:002020-06-12T15:19:15.879-04:00I can see the light...Renovating is such an up and down experience. It's so exciting at the beginning, before you realize it will take over your life and create such a mess.
We're almost done all the insulating, which in my opinion, is the worst part of it. I can handle the mess, the lack of floors or walls, the lack of an extra bathroom with teenagers. I can handle all of that. Insulation is so itchy and messy, it gets in your lungs even when you're wearing a mask. And now we're almost done!! Hallelujah!
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one wall dry walled and a bit of the other... </div>
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the wall and ceiling for the bathroom framed and that horrid double wall fully insulated</div>
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I found a great priced shower to purchase that checked off both of our wish list for showers - rainshower and handheld - and the plumbing is hooked up for the shower. The plumber looked just like <a href="http://www.search.com/reference/Mason_%28Dead_Like_Me%29" target="_blank">Mason from Dead like Me</a>.</div>
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I found and purchased pendant lights on sale, one for each side of the sink</div>
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Now that so much of the picky stuff is done, we're almost at the fun parts!! Put up the siding. Drywall, prime and paint. Put up the tongue and groove ceiling. Lay the heated floor in the bathroom. Tile the bathroom and install the fixtures. Put in hardwood flooring. Put up moldings around windows, door and bottom of walls and then voila! done. Sounds so easy.<br />
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There was a lot of complaining from the Man that I was always trying to get out of doing stuff. I freely admit that I was. It was things that I wasn't the great at doing and if I attempted to do it, he complained and picked at what I did. So, yeah, I did get out of as much as I could - but I made sure he had a meal every night, that there was a path to areas in the house and the sheets got changed when they were too picky with insulation.<br />
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We were reading about Myer Briggs personality profiles. He's an INTJ and this is what it says about him, it totally goes over into the way he works on this reno:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"INTJs are ambitious, self-confident, deliberate, long-range thinkers. They dislike messiness and inefficiency,
and anything that is muddled or unclear. They value clarity and efficiency,
and will put enormous amounts of energy and time into consolidating
their insights into structured patterns."</span><br />
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and then there's me...<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the workplace, the INFJ usually shows up in areas where they can be
creative and somewhat independent. They have a natural affinity for art, and
many excel in the sciences, where they make use of their intuition.
INFJs can also be found in service-oriented professions.
They are not good at dealing with minutia or very detailed tasks. The
INFJ will either avoid such things, or else go to the other extreme and
become enveloped in the details to the extent that they can no longer see
the big picture. An INFJ who has gone the route of becoming meticulous
about details may be highly critical of other individuals who are not.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">I haven't gone over to the dark side, it's my personality to avoid very detailed tasks! And all of those upcoming projects are creative...</span></span><br />
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I have to say that my Man is the hardest worker in the world. He would work all day and come home to work on the back till 12 or 1 to finish something off. He is such a champ.
It should get a little easier for him now. I love the upcoming projects and plan on being in there like a wet shirt.Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613077008093078881.post-54727384684352081602011-09-20T12:25:00.003-04:002011-09-20T12:43:16.175-04:00Blackboard Wall DiversionI'm supposed to be working on the last wall of insulation, but I'm stalling. It's a double wall, which means, there's the original wall and then there's a newer wall built in front of it. So both parts of it needs to get some insulation stuffed into it. I am <i>so</i> done with that picky, itchy crap. I'm doing anything to avoid it. Such as painting a blackboard wall.<br />
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Here's some inspiring photos of blackboard walls in kitchens:<br />
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I tell ya, I'm ADD with projects. A few months ago, April to be exact, I bought a can of blackboard paint. In July, I filled in a few holes. In August, I sanded it. And today I'm taping and priming.<br />
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The Man's philosophy with any of his purchases is 'Go Big or Go Home'. That's not really his philosophy in his own words, but one that I've decided is his after years of living with him and watching what he buys. Like his giant miter saw, his giant treadmill, his giant box of Canadian Tire tools that came in a big box and was pretty useless. We often influence our partners whether we like it or not and I've been purposefully attempting to influence him to do research on what he wants and what he actually needs to purchase, instead of randomly buying it cause it's big. He's getting better. He recently bought a normal sized super awesome drill and normal sized useful reciprocating saw. AND he decided NOT to buy a super ginormous router table because it was too big. He's a quick learner. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">*cough 18 years later cough*</span><br />
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His influence on me, for this project anyway, is that I'm goin' big. I'm not going to make a cute little framed blackboard project thingy, I'm doing a large portion of the kitchen wall. It's pretty big.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Inspirational Photos: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.apartment2024.com/2009/05/31/chalkboard-wall/">Apartment 2024 </a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://houseandhome.com/">Canadian House and Home</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://keltainentalorannalla.blogspot.com/#">A Yellow House by the Sea </a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://thewickerhouse.blogspot.com/2011/01/chalkboard-walls.html">The Wicker House</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://houseobsession.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/i-know-a-great-house-for-sale/">House Obsession</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://greenhomeideas.blogspot.com/2011/03/chalkboard-decor-ideas.html">Green Home Ideas</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://courtneyandwise.blogspot.com/2011/03/blackboard-paint.html">Courtney and Wise</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://beebeegrace.blogspot.com/2009/11/chalkboard-walls.html">BeeBeeGrace</a></span>Terrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16438156741587426668noreply@blogger.com0