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I have very exciting news! The countertops in the bathroom will be installed on MONDAY! I am so excited. I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve. I mean, this bathroom project has been going on for so long now (a fact for which I make no apologies considering that Matt and I finally have a life outside of our house now after over a decade, and we are both enjoying it to the fullest), but the installation of the countertops will really feel like this project is officially winding down. So I went back to the last “to do” list that I made for this bathroom to see just how far I’ve come, and exactly what still needs to be done. I originally made the list in April, and then I reevaluated the list in July and checked off several things that I had gotten done by then. And here’s the state of the list now… Finish the crown molding and trim around the mural wall -- sa...

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I’ve been DIYing for 30 years now, and sometimes I’m astounded at how much I still don’t know. Some of those things that I’m still learning seem so basic! For example, yesterday I finally learned how to extend an outlet for tile or wainscoting using the safest, easiest, and fastest way I’ve ever done it. So if you’ve ever done tile or wainscoting, you know what I mean. You get your tile or wainscoting done, and your electrical outlet is set back anywhere from 1/4-inch to 3/4-inch because that’s where the original box is. Then you have to find a way to extend the outlet so that it sits against the new tile or wainscoting. In the past, I’ve always used these caterpillar spacer shims, which are small plastic pieces that snap together like Legos and wrap around the screws that hold the electrical outlet in the box. I can’t stand those...

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I wanted to give y’all a follow-up on my experience using Rubio Monocoat on the walnut vanities and storage cabinet in our master bathroom. When I built these items, I told you about how I finished them with the Rubio Monocoat Oil Plus 2C in the color Pure (which basically has no color). And while I loved how it looked on the walnut, I became a little frustrated with it over time. When I did the finishing originally, I did it according to the instructions that I had found on several videos, which all said to sand the wood to a 120-grit finish and then add the Rubio Monocoat finish. But after finishing these pieces, and continuing on with the other work that still needed to be done in the bathroom, I noticed that dust didn’t wipe off of these finished surfaces easily at all. In fact, the finish felt just a bit rough, and it was rough enough that if I tried to wipe off dust...

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Do you remember the flip house next door to us If you missed that story, you can read more about it here: A Flip House Gone Wrong (And House Flippers Gone Insane). Long story short, a flipper bought the house next door to us, and in my humble opinion, redid everything in the house using cheap materials and shoddy work, and then put the house on the market for $450,000. I don’t even remember when the house originally went on the market after the “upgrades” (I say, trying to hold back the eyerolls), but by January of this year, the price had been marked down to $439,000. And what was being offered for that price Well, you can hop over to my previous post to see all of the details, and you can check out the videos I took of the kitchen on my Instagram story highlights, but suffice it to say that the kitchen is a total mess. Here are the highlights: The space for the re...

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When we lived in our condo, I found some amazing reasonably-priced bamboo shades at Home Depot. They could customize the width for me, and I also found that I could do it myself using my miter saw. After all, they were wood shades. Those bamboo shades became my go-to shades of choice on all of the windows in the condo (all four of them ?? ), and I also used them when we moved into our house. Any time someone I knew was looking for bamboo shades, I’d recommend them. When I was decorating other people’s homes, I would use these shades. I mean, that’s how much I loved them. And then Home Depot stopped carrying them. Lowe’s had other bamboo shades, but they didn’t have anything like my favorite ones. I searched and searched online, and never could find any that were exactly like my favorites. I found similar ones, but I was always disappointed with them. As ...

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If you showed up here today hoping to see a finished portion of the bathroom walls, I need to apologize, because I have nothing but disappointment for you today. Yes, I had planned to show you a completely finished section of the bathroom wall. I knew that if I picked up where I left off on Thursday, and continued working on Friday and Saturday, I’d have at least one portion of the wall completely finished. But the more I looked at the section of the wall that I thought was nearing completion, the more I realized it needed some pretty significant adjustments. This wainscoting just seemed off to me. It looked completely unbalanced. The problem is that it seemed to be too open-ended. That’s how I would describe how it looks to my eye, at least. I’m not sure if it makes sense to anyone else, though. The fact is that on Thursday when I finished working on the wall, I kn...

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I’m on the final home stretch with the bathroom remodel. The last big project is the DIY wainscoting, and for these bathroom walls, I decided to do a judge’s paneling with a tile accent. That should come as no shock since it’s what I did in the hallway bathroom as well, and it’s one of my favorite features of that bathroom. So naturally, I’d want my favorite design feature to be repeated in this bathroom. I haven’t gotten a section completely finished yet, but I did make great progress on this one section… It just needs to be caulked, primed, and painted. And then I can add the tile accent, and this section will be done. The biggest challenge is figuring out how to incorporate the tile accent around the vanity countertops. Because that will determine how the wainscoting needs to be applied to rest of the walls where there is no vanity or coun...

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