The hall bathroom in our 1983 house needed a little facelift, and while it's still not ideal, it's miles better than it started out!

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The tile cutting and adhering is complete. It ain't totally perfect but it's mine. Next... grouting.

I chose the colour and begged the paint guy at Home Depot to add it to the Behr Venetian Plaster since grey was not one of their standard choices. I love it!

These are the most challenging sheets to hang because the stairs prevented positioning the lift closer. I created a small lip to rest the sheets on using scrap wood so I could slide them in place.

We used a SkilSaw across the top to open thing up.

drywall turned into pudding.

Inside the garage after the majority of the work was done to prepare it for new concrete tomorrow.

I installed shelves in my craft closet today. Though I am handy if I try, I usually let J handle any home improvement that requires moving parts.

The hall bathroom in our 1983 house needed a little facelift, and while it's still not ideal, it's miles better than it started out!

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After ripping out the carpet pad I found no less than 5 different patterns of linoleum.

An drain in the below-grade stairwell just outside the exterior basement door (top right, with snake emerging from it). Water from the upstairs bathroom tub, sink and (ick) toilet, rather than going down into the sewers as it should have, had backed up into the stairwell, seeping in under the door and flooding the basement.

To do the wiring, we had to (of course) shut down the hallway light.

instructions at my blog

The pour was delayed a day but it finally got completed today.

Jack posing with the completed wall. We also bought new furniture for the room so it's a lot more enjoyable now than it had been.

The last of the original concrete at house has been removed. This portion was 50+ years old.

just have to finish redoing the drawers and we're done...well, we're redoing the countertop too...but the cabinets are just about done...not exactly the best photomerge either, but it gets the point across

This is my new home office and entertainment room. I just recently completed this home improvement project. Quite happy with it. Much roomier and it's definitely a lot more comfortable of a place for the family to hang out.

Here is how it looked before.

Countertop is gone. We'll need to sand down the backsplash line.

You've wondered what the Marmoleum I'll be putting down soon looks like. Well, here it is, laid out for my feline master's amusement: the darker is "arabesque" and the lighter is "virgin blue". I have no idea how they arrived at either of those names.

Before

Martinez, May 2014

Before the new furniture delivered

The Pit at Home, Tadworth

after a months-long struggle with lack of motivation and paint stripper, the bike room is painted! and the nasty carpet has been removed! now all that's left is to sand and paint the window frames, the windows themselves, pull & paint the baseboards, nail in some quarter round trim, and either re-finish the floor or call it 'done'.

B.C. One last look at our naked cabinets.