When we bought the place, this doorway had a folding door. You opened and closed it with a wooden knob (barely) held on by a sheetrock screw. I stole a closet door from my son’s room to give the place a little privacy. This room is right off the entry hall.
Jim htat looks pretty sweet…
Stole my idea for a thread.
Okay, redoing my fireplace. Had to take out a 4x8 section of wall that was ruined when I took off the old tile that was there and regyproc it. Planning on rebuilding using manufactured stone this weekend.
Tore up the tile at the front door and the carpet in the closet and retiled the whole thing. Planned on installing a new closet door, but unable to find bifolds in oak.
Laid a tile entryway in my basement at the door to the garage. Repainted the woodwork in the basement, as well.
Put in a medicine cabinet and some shelves in my 1/2 bath.
Laid new tile in another bathroom of mine, new shelves etc.
Painted the entire house, installed new lights, all new blinds etc.
Kitchen will be getting hardwood in the coming weeks, new countertop, new sinks and faucet. Yet another bathroom of mine has to be completely gutted, floor to ceiling to get at a leak. Instead of just a patch job, I’ve decided to rip up the old floor, take out the walls, install backerboard instead of gyproc, retile the walls, hardwood on the floor, rebuild the shower stall and encase the jetted tub in wood.
I literally have a few hundred ‘before’ pictures… but no afters because I haven’t managed to finish ONE SINGLE STUPID PROJECT. AAAAHHHHHH!
My bathroom will be the first thing completed - hopefully by the end of next week (before my parents come in for the weekend!)
this is my real fridge. The band on the top is a dark royal blue. It was supposed to be cobalt, but hey, what can you do? It looks awesome!!! Soon it will be in the kitchen on my new tile floor that I am installing this weekend. I took tomorrow and friday off so I have four straight days to work.
Here are my plans: Thursday - lay tarpaper and then plywood on the kitchen floor, attach with about 300,000 screws and then pour a layer of self leveling stuff. Wait 6 hours. While waiting finish the rest of the bathroom tile. Back to the kitchen to lay a level of morter and then hardibacker board. Attach with another 300,000 screws. tape and mortar joints. go to bed.
Friday: tile like a mad woman. Hopefully my ‘new’ shower curtain rod will be delivered by my neighbor and I can finish the shower walls. then deliver a rescue pit bull to her new home (the most exciting part of my day!)
Saturday: build side wall for staircase and put first layer of drywall mud on it.
Sunday: sand new drywall and get second coat on. sand wood work and try to get a coat of primer on the walls
Monday: drag my tired ass to work.
I’ll try to give you updates and pics as the weekend progresses!
that bathroom looks AWESOME by the way! Nice work!!!
Great thread Michelle!! This keeps me inspired to get my house finished… Although somehow I doubt, it’ll ever be finished.
I love how you are keeping w/ the integrity of the house and keeping the style it was intended to be. I love that. Do you watch HGTV, this old house, if wall could talk, and all that stuff. I also love Trading Spaces, TLC. Great stuff.
Awesome before and after pictures Jim… very inspiring. I love the shelf insert. Is that hard to do? I might have to steel that one. Looks great. I love white trim, very clean looking.
The built-in wasn’t too hard. I was lucky to have a closet on the other side, so I had some leeway. That spot is where the window originally was when the house was built. It was covered over when the master suite was added. I uncovered it when I pulled out all the drywall. When we bought the house, there was actually a gap in the drywall there with a very funky toilet paper holder in the gap. The wall above the toilet paper was open (between the studs) and there was fiberglass insulation just a couple inches up into the gap. In other words, there was open fiberglass right above the toilet paper. I can’t imagine how someone thought that was a good idea.
I don’t have cable, so I don’t get most of the remodeling shows. I have seen Trading spaces and While You Were Out - and I would totally FREAK if someone did something like that to me! It gives me the shivers just thinking about it…
Jim, you put us all to shame.
Thanks, but it sounds to me like everyone is doing good work. Anybody else have pictures?
Has anyone ever used the ‘self leveling’ cement stuff under their tiles? I just poured about 15 gallons of that stuff on my kitchen floor to level it… what a MESS!!! if you’ve used it, how did it turn out? I can’t do anything about it now, but I was REALLY uneasy about it when I poured it.
Michelle, it works fine. Assuming you put up barriers at the edges of the floor of course 
Honestly you don’t always need it, depending on your previous floor condition, but it can’t hurt unless it’s a sh*tty product.
Taht self leveling stuff was a ROYAL pain in the ass and made the floor worse than it was in the first place. I followed all of the directions, it was a nightmare. It took four buckets to cover the floor, and I ended up with four distinct levels across the room.
The next time I do’nt follow my gut instinct someone please smack me.
(much shorter post, I forgot to copy it before posting… and AGAIN got kicked to the login screen)
