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Home Maintenance 101: Uncloging a Sink (Without Vomiting, Kind Of)

I actually feel like I should start out this post by apologizing for the pictures it contains. Actually, if you’ve eaten recently, or are thinking about eating in the next,…

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Soaked (Finally)

Check this off the list of Things-I’ve-been-mentioning-for-a year-and-can-finally-shut-up-about: This house now has one big bathtub. (Technically I’ve only really been pining after it since it was delivered five months ago,…

Building a DIY Mirror Frame

I’d been having a little difficulty picking out mirrors for the master bath. And by “a little difficulty” I mean that I developed a twitch in my left eye. Since…

A Half-Working Master Bath Is Better Than Nothing

Last weekend wasn’t all fun and playing with jigs, you know. There was serious work to be done to get the Master Bath ready for some actual bathroom fixtures. For…

Third Time’s A Charm (For Concrete Stain)

Well, I finally got out of my things-aren’t-working-out-the-way-I-planned funk about the concrete counters, which, if you remember had was preceded by a slight issue with stain. It wasn’t pretty… Before…

To Center or Not to Center: My Mom’s Great Sink Debate

I might have mentioned before that I’m a horrible daughter who has been absorbed in building her own house for a year. About the time we started building the house…

Finally, A Finished Floor

It should come as no surprise that after the original tiling fiasco and the cutting of a hole in the last tile, that the master bathroom floor has been my…

How To Build a Pottery Barn Inspired Vanity

I think the most important thing on the list of stuff you need to build a vanity is the pervasive belief that you can, in fact, build a vanity. This…

Concrete Bathroom Counters: In Progress

After yesterday’s teaser, I figured I better let you have an in-progress look at the counters. I decided to give concrete a try because I didn’t want to add another…

Two. Tiles. Short.

Bloody fingers. Broken tiles. Unfinished bathrooms. These are things you don’t see on HGTV. Sometimes you don’t even see them on websites of real people doing real projects, because by…

If the World Ends This Weekend, At Least I Took a Bath

Wait. Let me clarify. At least I got to take a bath in my actual house. Ladies and gentlemen, this event has been almost a year in the making. It’s…

Full Bath: Finishing Touches

We are thisclose to having one finished bathroom in the house, which will bring us a giant leap closer to actually living in it some day. Aside from finishing the…

Tile 101: How To Install SunTouch WarmWire Radiant Floor Heat

The cat and I both agree, there’s not a whole that can compare with walking barefoot into your bathroom and feeling a toasty warm floor under your toes. Or, in…

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