
Tile 101: How to Build & Tile Counters
Granite sounds all well and good until you hear $30 per linear foot and your eyeballs pop out of your head. I’ve tiled almost every
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Granite sounds all well and good until you hear $30 per linear foot and your eyeballs pop out of your head. I’ve tiled almost every

Swear to god, I went three years of my life without ever picking up a grout float, and then bam bam bam…bam bam…bam… 1677 one-inch
Six months ago I was having a minor panic attack about the exterior colors of the Memorial house, and then I decided to handle it

So the ink is barely dry on your building permit and you’re ready to break out the excavator and start digging? If you just read
After three and a half years together, MysteryMan and I have fallen into our respective roles in this relationship… which is to say one of
This past weekend I’m in the middle of my normal Sunday routine, which is to say I’m making the 5th of 8 trips to Lowe’s,
I’m still plugging away at taping drywall corners in the bathroom. Yes, it’s traumatizing, and no, I don’t want to talk about it. Particularly that
Put the drill down, and step away slowly. Every once in a while I get emails from people who want to give me ideas for
The laws of physics make this an excellent idea, particularly if you know how to defy gravity. Oh yeah. I’m the person who just yesterday
I’ve officially jumped right into the deep end of this project, and on one hand, finally, I’ve been talking about this for years. On the
Work-life balance has never been one of my strengths. I like to work. Hard. And for most of my adult life that has translated into

Alternative titles for this post: “Watch me beat the hell out of a piece of drywall”, “Things I should not post on the internet”, “When
While working on my basement hallway transformation I was presented with a problem… Apparently I’ve gone from 20/20 vision to someone who considers this to
The benefit of snatching a handful of hours over the last week to cut, lay, and grout tile on my basement floor, is that I
I admit to being slightly stumped in the “unfinished cabinet aisle” at Lowe’s as I started counting out the sizes for sink bases. Thirty-six inch,
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