I used to spend my New Years Eve watching Musicals all night and working on a Jigsaw Puzzle.  When did it turn into New Reno's Eve!?  I bought the flooring Yesterday.  4 boxes at $20 a box.  It's pretty cool stuff and they were closing out the color at 67 cents a tile.  What a DEAL!  I was able to redo the flooring in the EntryWay - Laundry Room - ( Read more... )

Well, between Yesterday and today I was able to get quite a bit done.  The Sink mounted to the wall.  The plumbing all connected.  The Mirror Hung.  My finger smashed... And my nails done.  Here's the pictures all except my nails.  I was going to leave the floor like this until I installed tile... but I'm kind of tired of partial projects all over ( Read more... )

OK.  So the last thing I updated for you was the Hole got patched.  Well, that was Sunday night.  Monday, I sanded it down and put an additional coat of Joint Compound on the walls.  Tuesday, I came home from work and did the same thing.  Only I hoped this would be the last coat.  Wednesday I got up and sanded down the walls.  To tell you the truth ( Read more... )

This bathroom is otherwise known as the "Dog's" Bathroom.  It is the full bathroom on the bottom floor of the house and has the Laundry room in it as well.  It is very cramped and could use some opening up.  This bathroom is connected to the Garage entry Foyer.  You know, the one that has the nastiest carpet... the Carpet that Foster tore up by ( Read more... )

 It is the curse of having 3 bathrooms... triple the chance of having plumbing problems.  Though I must say, I did learn from my $!00 mistake.  I had to rebuild the downstairs toilet.  It wouldn't stop running so I had to keep turning off the water at the shut off valve.  Luckily I saved all the parts from last weekend and was able to replace all ( Read more... )

 I was going to put that in.  Should have been an afternoon project ( Read more... )

 I put the light fixture up in the downstairs bathroom.  And it should have been a 15 minute job...

Famous last words.

the A-Holes that built this house took so many short cuts.  I took pictures and I will link to them after dinner.
Here's the pic's:

BEFORE:


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