tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53053893618457195732024-03-05T16:47:50.573-06:00Mr. & Mrs. Anderson's HouseChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-45969592660646954102014-01-02T08:39:00.000-06:002014-01-02T08:39:24.036-06:002013 - The year we were ready to kiss goodbye to! 2013 became the year of huge ups and downs. I started this blog to share pictures of Parker and I's bathroom renovation. The reason I stopped? Well things got really crazy real.<br />
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Our bathroom is finished. And without going too much into detail, it was a giant project that was way harder than we ever imagined it being to finish. Another wall had to be pulled out because the plumber ripped us off. We went over budget. And instead of it taking 6 weeks to finish it took 6 months. That being said, we LOVE how it all came out. Here is how we started:<br />
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And here is what we ended up with:<br />
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It was a lot of blood sweat and tears. But we love it and would not have changed a thing. Well, actually we probably would have paid more people to do more of it. But that is just us. And we did really learn a lot about our home, using tools, and about each other. <br />
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We also have been quite busy this year doing other things. Some good and some bad. Parker lost his job, but in the end found an even BETTER one with a great company making more money. It was a scary few weeks but we are really lucky he found this great opportunity. It could have been worse.<br />
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After the bathroom and the job this was settled, we took a road trip out to Santa Fe for a long weekend for my 30th birthday. It could not have been a better trip and one that I will never forget. We hiked, and did yoga, and ate amazing (and hot) food! Here I am doing yoga at White Sands:<br />
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Parker also shattered his leg this year. Like shattered! He was playing soccer in the backyard with our nephew and just turned the right way at the wrong time. He did this in September:<br />
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He broke his fibula in 8 places and tibia was broken off at the base. We are still recovering from this horrible break. He has a great surgeon, who put a 10 in plate in his leg, and an amazing physical therapist who is getting him back on his feet. </div>
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But the biggest thing we did this year was create a one of a kind: </div>
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Baby BOY Anderson is due in May 2014! We are so pumped. We still have a lot to do to get the house and ourselves ready for this big adventure. But we are excited for what 2014 has in store for us! In the mean time I will try to post some updates about the pregnancy and about our home as we get ready for little baby Anderson. Happy new year! </div>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-1823668712002332242013-05-23T12:09:00.000-05:002013-05-23T12:09:00.125-05:00LIst update: The devil is in the details<br />And update on our list for you all: <br />
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This list just reminds me of how naive I was when I started this whole thing. There were SO MANY more steps to this project. But we will not complain. We are almost done! </div>
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Here it is y'all! The latest updates in the bathroom! </div>
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Parker and I have finished the grout and the baseboards and The room is definatly coming together. We installed the drain and sealed up all the corners in the shower so when the doors are put in it is water tight. </div>
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I wanted you to have a side by side to see what the tile looked like with out grout. It makes a huge difference right!? </div>
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I think it came out pretty darnd good! What do you think?</div>
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You can also see I grouted the tile on the floor too. We used a grey grout and sealed all of it. So it should always be easy to clean and maintain. The tile, I remind you was only 99 CENTS a foot! WOOT. </div>
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We painted all the baseboards and caulked them so they look all finished. I think it came out nice. The only area we are concerned about it this corner where the tile meets kinda funky. We will have to caulk it I think. </div>
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In addition we have put in the new bathroom vanity and our plumber will be installing the fixture to that this week. Things are really moving along if you ask me! </div>
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Parker will also finish the crown molding and we will show you pictures of how that came out at as well. I think you will like how it looks. We sure do! </div>
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There are whispers of guests heading our way this weekend, so I will have to update you on how all of this held up with five extra people hanging out! </div>
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<br />Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-2472427253158198772013-05-20T12:16:00.000-05:002013-05-22T12:17:15.979-05:00No Dobt, We Grout!I am a natural rapper of course.<br />
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In other news, we grouted the shower walls. And it came out great! I have yet to wash off and seal everything so I will show you the best part of the action shots. <br />
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As you can see the grout we used is white, and it was messy. <br />
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Basically we just slopped the grout on the walls and pushed it in with a float. <br />
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Here I am. This step is board and easy but super gratifying. It makes the shower look more finished. It was a great feeling. <br />
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-18020950596311396792013-04-30T14:41:00.002-05:002013-04-30T14:41:52.646-05:00Step 700 - Tile Okay so now we are ready to tile. <br />
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We have had several issues come up with the tile situation and I want to cover some of them because I think they will help you all understand the feat that it is that we finished this all by ourselves. <br />
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First, houses are not built square. So our walls are not plumb. That is an issue when you are tiling a corner! Especially when tiling a corner with small tiles like our chose white subway tiles. Joy. Another challenge. By the way the tiles are from Lowes. $.22 a tile. Pretty good price and we got 5% off with our consumer credit card from there. So that made it cheaper than anywhere else in town. <br />
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So we first spent about 5 days laying out the tile on the walls. I bet you many of those DIY blogs don't tell you about that process. No matter what we did we ended up with weird cuts on the end of the walls and in the corner. I wont make your brain hurt with the math but let's just say it was not easy. <br />
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Here you can see we began to lay out the tile the way we wanted it. We taped up each tile in the section to see how it would look. Here is what we started with. This about when I realized that the niche, although nice was going to be a pain. <br />
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So then we created a plumb line above where the rubber shower pan was behind the cement board and screwed in a board to hold up the tiles as we went. As you can see we are just getting started cutting and laying everything out. Looks good right? Parker was going at a good pace and this all took him about 5 hours or prep and work. I know. It is hard. <br />
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Once we got started though we got moving. We mudded out the edges of the niche so the tiles would lay flat on the wall. This crated a slight bump on the wall that we are hoping will not be too noticeable in the long run. I guess we should have known how hard this niche was going to be, but oh well. We rolled with it. <br />
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Here it is finished after two days of tiling. We still needed to do the bull nose edging on the tiles and top but I thought Parker did a pretty darned good job right? <br />
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We will have spacing that is slightly off in the corner but not by much. We just had to think outside the box and I think we did a good job mitigating any huge issues. <br />
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Here is a close up of the tile with out the grout done. Looks beautiful right? Ohh La La! In case you are wondering we used little pieces of cardboard to prop up the tile when they are not lining up right. Works like a charm. <br />
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So in the same weekend we tackled step one of the ceiling. We added bead board! I love it. It was super hard to cut and we are going to have to fudge a bit of the space around the light. Also caulk and cover the nail holes. But we love it. Plus Parker and I got to use a nail gun. So much fun. <br />
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-60526277218757017212013-04-30T12:59:00.001-05:002013-04-30T13:51:48.768-05:00It's Been A WhileWe know it has been a while since we have posted on the blog. A lot has been going on. Let me give you a quick update and then we can get to the good stuff. <br />
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First off Parker has changed jobs. He no longer works at his horrible retail job! WOOT!!! We transitioned this whole month of April and it has been a big change for us. Luckily Parker found a job at a great company that we hope will give him a lot of chances to grow professionally. <br />
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Next, my car died. I know. With the bathroom and the job change you would think we had enough on our plates. Apparently not. So Parker and I had to rush around and buy a new car much sooner than we had thought. Although it is great I have a brand new beautiful car that I love it was a little much to take on. We are recovering though. <br />
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So I am sure you can understand the bathroom has had to take a back burner to life. It happens, and we are better off for it, but still, it would have been great to have this all stretched out a bit more over time. Not over three weeks. Let's just say a lot of the following drink was consumed to help with the stress: <br />
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Anyway we are getting back to it with lot's more changes to the bathroom to tell you about. First up tiling and then grouting and sealing. Then we install the ceiling and plumbing and fixtures. <br />
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It is all happening this week and weekend.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-84812346560099549042013-04-03T13:13:00.000-05:002013-04-03T13:13:00.344-05:00List Update - There was so much more to this than we thoughtSo this list I made when we started was just a scratch on the surface of all the word we were going to have to do. But we are moving forward. Check it out: <br />
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-73325982334797411412013-04-02T13:10:00.001-05:002013-04-02T13:10:18.011-05:00A Time Capsule (sort of)Parker and I have been busy hanging sheetrock in our bathroom. And honestly if I never see another piece of sheetrock in my life it will still be too soon. I am over the sheetrock. It crumbles, it is uneven and it gets dust everywhere. I am over it.<br />
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That being said, we have walls now! WOOT. I am not going to show them to you all yet because we are still finishing them out with patches and stuff. When we are ready you will be amazed.<br />
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Anyway, Parker and I thought we should put a little note in the walls for the next people who renovate the bathroom in our home. So he took some time to write up a cute note telling those people about us and we left a few pictures of us (Harry included) as well. We packed it all up in a plastic baggie and stuck in in the wall behind where the sink will go. We hope it will be found by people who love our home as much as we do. But not too soon obviously!<br />
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Here are some pictures of Parker putting the baggie behind the wall.<br />
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This also gives you a hint as to what the walls are looking like these days. Let me tell you, they might look good in pictures, but they look even more amazing in person! We are really excited to get moving on to the next phase! Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-32481050760655765232013-03-21T14:57:00.001-05:002013-03-21T14:57:41.607-05:00Timelines are not really a thing for contractors... The last time we left you we were working with our contractors to get some of the basic framework done in the room. We have officially his the wall and are now trying to push through to the other side, back into productivity. The contractors, no matter house nice they were, took FOREVER to do thier work. To the point that Parker and I steped in and started framing out the wall ourselves. How is that for learning curve!?<br />
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Anyway here is what they did in the bathroom. First we had the contractor take out the framing beams in the ceiling so the ceiling would be flush the whole way through. Now we just have to patch it up. Then we had to have another two studs added to the attic so we could patch up the ceiling and also frame out the new wall. This was a giant pain in the butt and poor Parker spent a lot of time hanging out in the fiberglass insulation. And you all know how much we love fiberglass! <br />
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Then we had the contractor frame out the new wall and hand the new door. here is the door and the framework. We actually learned a lot about the process and decided in the future (if we ever have to) we could totally do this our selves. <br />
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Then we had him build our new 4 by 3 foot shower pan. It took him a while to get started and we ended up buying him the easy frame tools that you just bud in after setting them up. If we would have known he was going to go that route we may have just done this ourselves too. But we were glass to not have to lay on the floor for hours figuring this all out. <br />
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As you can see the shower pan came out great! We are finally starting to see things move along here. So last night Parker and I started to hang the cement board backer for the shower. Typically you hang the cement board and the sheet rock horizontally across the studs. But since the studs were exactly three feet and so was the width of the cement board we went vertical for one of the sides of the shower. I hope it works out ok. This stuff is super heavy and hard to hang. I do not want to have to undo it all.<br />
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Speaking of undoing it all, check out the other wall we finished last night. Looks great except we forgot we were putting an inset int he wall and have to cut the cement board to fit it. So I guess we are going to have to undo the backer board! UGH!!!! <br />
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Tonight our friend is coming over to help with the electrical, and then we are going to work on the cement board. We will show you an update when we have it! <br />
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Next up for the bathroom is to rip up, clean, seal and level the floors. Parker and I started on the floors the night before. We found it to be fairly easy to rip up the tiles that had not been walked on a lot. The stuff that had been tore into shreds and was a pain to get up. We eventually got it all up and there was this horrible sticky glue under it.<br />
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I had read you would need to scrape and wash the floors before doing anything else. So Parker on his day off to care of scraping everything up. I then got home and hand washed the floors with basic soap and water. Then we applied the primer. Here you can see I used a bucket and an old paintbrush to apply it. It looked like milk when it was wet. As it dried it became clear. <br />
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It took much longer for it to dry than we thought so we had to stay up very late to get the next steps done. As you can see in the back left coroner of the picture below there is the shower and then the drain covered by a green bucket. Well there was a big hole in the slab of the house that our contractor asked us to fill in before he built the shower pan. So Parker and I got at it.<br />
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Here is Parker filling in the hole. It was a pretty easy process. And the cement set in 40 minutes. Great stuff. <br />
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So, here is the bathroom in the morning. We were super tired when we did the leveling of the floor so there are not many pictures of the process. Basically you lay this play dough type stuff on the ground and spread it out and it fills in the holes where there may have been bolts and stuff in the foundation. It makes it much easier to lay tile later on. So we thought it was worth it. Mixing it was really hard but once we got it down it was easy to work with. I definitely think it is a two man job though. <br />
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Above is a picture of the floor, holes filled and leveled. We cant believe how much better it already looked! Little did we know our contractor and plumber were going to come in and rip it up the next night. More on that later though... UGH. <br />
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Here is an updated list for those who are keeping count!<br />
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</span></span></span>Hang tarps and lay carpet protector down for
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-64219276566820176312013-03-14T13:20:00.000-05:002013-03-14T13:20:02.663-05:00Friends make everything better! Here is where we kind of had left off from our last post. Demo chaos. We spent a lot of time cleaning and ripping out more drywall and cleaning more. On Sunday we did more of the same.
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After a few more hours or demo on Sunday Parker and I got smart and lured our friends Pete and Corey over to the house to help us finish out the last bits of the walls and framing. Many of you dont know Corey but she is basically the same person as me. So when I inticed her with the promis of swinging a sledge hammer and using a power tool and food she was in! I gave her a wall and she made quick work of it, and I mean quick! </div>
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It took her all of 15 minutes to take this baby down. Look at her go!Her husband Pete was loving using the power tools as well. The two of them, with thier fresh arms, took down the rest of the demo in a quick session of 30 minutes. </div>
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This is what the bathroom looked like the morning after they left. The floors are still down, but pretty much everything else has been taken out. <br />
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As you can see from this picture we had some old insulation in the walls behind the shower. Our contractor suggested we go ahead and replace it since we have the walls open and the insulation was pretty torn up. So Parker and I picked up some 15p fiberglass insulation from Lowes and got to it. This project has by far been the easiest part of the process. New insulation comes with tabs on the edges and is pre-cut so you can make it fin in abnormal sized stud spaces. It took all but 20 minutes to take out the old and put in the new. Here I am nailing up our new insulation behind where the shower will be. <br />
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After getting everything in the walls we are now ready to take out the ceiling framing beams and update the electrical wiring and do the floors. On to the next! Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-46975017977692708042013-03-12T11:18:00.001-05:002013-03-12T11:18:05.250-05:00You all know I love a good list! A list update for you all just to give you an idea as to where we are at:<br />
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</span></span></span>Hang tarps and lay carpet protector down for
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</span></span></span>Take out wall, cut half wall next to toilet</strike></div>
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So we have a lot left to do. But we have gotten a lot done as well. We are cleaning up from Demo tonight and posting some more pictures of that process tomorrow. Then we are off to work on the floor and start building everything back up! </div>
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SO now that we got the vanity out of the way we needed to get those pesky walls out of the way too! Parker and I kicked off the weekend with some help from Jason and some demo!<br />
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He and Jason removed the mirror from the wall. It shattered everywhere. Side note, there is no good way to remove a mirror that has been liquid nails'ed to the wall.<br />
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Then Parker and jason got started on removing the toilet from the bathroom so we could then replace the floors. I showed him a few "How To" websites and he and Jason were left alone to thier own vices as I had a very important hair appointment to get to. When I got back I saw the toilet in the garage... BOLTS STILL ATTACHED!!!<br />
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The boys apparently did not like to read directions and just ripped the thing from the ground. BOLTS and ALL!!! <br />
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Here is a shot of the aftermath. Just a hole in the ground. Broken flange. And a heart patterned rag stuffed in the hole. Done and Done. <br />
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Then I was left alone for most of the day Saturday to rip out as much as I could. Let me just say that this beam and the reciprocator saw and I were about to have words. <br />
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By the way I am going to work on getting better pictures and rotating them as I go. I am sorry they are not great quality. But we are learning as we go on all of this! Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-60729016747667801612013-03-11T10:22:00.001-05:002013-03-11T10:22:16.951-05:00First Days if Demo<div>
After Parker and I did some initial demolition of the baseboards and other basics we were ready to get started with the big stuff. The bathroom vanity being the big stuff. This vanity looks nice, but it is super impractical. It had to go, but we also want to try and sell the parts so we were doing our best to save the materials.<br />
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First we pulled it out and saw that the water shut off valves had been pulled off. So turning off the water to remove the whole unit was not going to be as easy as we had thought. Here is why. In order to remove the vanity from the wall, we had to detach the faucet from the wall. In order to detach the faucet you have to turn off the water. In order to turn off the water we had to be able to get behind the vanity. And around and around we went.<br />
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Finally after a few hours of fussing around with everything we deduced that we were going to have to shut off the water to the house from the street. We borrowed a water key from a friend and then found our water access opening on the street. Problem there is that the nob to turn the water off has been broken off. So we called around and found out we can turn the water off through he city access in another hole. So we did. And we then replaced the water shut off vales! Parker did a great job. Clearly he has grown in his plumbing skills.<br />
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So then we ripped out the vanity and moved it into the garage. It is listed on Craigslist and we are hopping to make enough to buy our new vanity with it. We are on a tight budget here people. Here is a great shot of Parker removing his first door jam. We thought that was hard. Little did we know how hard it was going to be to get the fiberglass shower out of the bathroom! UGH!!!! More on that soon! <br />
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-62828993918255201012013-03-06T12:55:00.001-06:002013-03-07T10:57:38.183-06:00Finished backyard planter<div>
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Here ia how that yard work came out from a few weeks back. What do you think!? We love it! </div>
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-85853351565220141552013-03-05T12:45:00.002-06:002013-03-05T12:45:55.133-06:00So Parker and I are getting started on our huge list of items to get done in our master bath. I wanted to share with you some inspiration I have for the room. I am going to affordable, clean, cool tones and modern with traditional mixed in. Does that confuse you enough? So to give you an idea of what we are thinking here you go:
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We have found some tile at the RE store that might help save us some money and it is pretty darnd close to what we had planned on getting anyway. We have some leftover paint in "Cucumber" that I am hoping might work in the bathroom on the walls. I am actively searching for a vanity, I have not found anything that I love that does not cost a fortune naturally.
So there you have it. What do you all think? I think it is going to look awesome! Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-20494944930233271532013-03-04T11:13:00.000-06:002013-03-04T11:13:15.805-06:00Bathroom Remodle - We are crazy!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Parker and I are about to begin our biggest project to date
in our home. We are going to be renovating our master bathroom! We are both so
excited and ready to tackle this project but we are well aware of how much work
it is going to be. So we are proceeding with caution. </div>
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Before we begin the juicy detailed posts of everything we
are doing in the bathroom we wanted to give you a rundown of where we are
starting off. </div>
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We have a partial wall and the vanity in the master bedroom. Parker’s closet is
directly behind that sink. So getting ready in the morning is never fun. Then
add in the door to the toilet and shower and you have a really tight space. </div>
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On the other side of the door is out toilet and small stand
up shower. Small is an understatement. This shower is so tiny I can barely lift
my arms to wash my hair in there. It is horrible. The fan in the bathroom does
not work very well so it always seems damp and smelly in this little room. I
almost never go to the bathroom in there anymore because it is just weird. </div>
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So you ask, what is the plan? Well we are gutting it. We are
building a new wall in the master bath, knocking down the wall and door,
expanding the shower, leveling the floor, tiling, handing new sheet rock and
taking out Parker’s closet. Not in that order of course. </div>
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Here is a mockup of the new floor plan we did on
floorplanner.com</div>
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Pretty great right? Well it does not look like much right
now but we think it is going to be awesome.</div>
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We have already moved Parker out of his closet (he is now
using the guest bedroom closet) and we have moved all of our bathroom items
into the guest bathroom. We will be living out of that bathroom for the
duration of the project. </div>
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How long will the duration be? Well we think it is best not
to set tight timelines, but we plan on being done by April. All going according
to plan that is. </div>
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Here is our checklist for our big bathroom remodel: </div>
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</span></span></span>Move Parker’s closet to guest bathroom</div>
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</span></span></span>Move bathroom to guest bathroom </div>
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</span></span></span>Hang tarps and lay carpet protector down for
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WOW I am exhausted just thinking about all this work. You
will notice, we left of one HUGE item. The shower doors. We are actually going
to leave the shower open for a few months and save up for the shower doors.
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-14970393587850098852013-02-25T09:28:00.001-06:002013-02-25T09:28:03.742-06:00So we did some yard work this weekend. NBD. <div><p dir=ltr>Here is what Parker and I were up to this weekend. We built a GIANT planter off the back of our house! Let me just say, I am super sore today but we hope it woll be worth it!<br>
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I was one of the first in line to buy their book, and so pumped when they announced that they would be coming in to Austin to do a signing! My friend Corey agreed to come with me for the signing and talk they were giving on writing their book. I was pumped.<br />
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Fast forward to this past Tuesday, I was worried because I had seen their updates from other cities and it looked like the lines were going to be really long and because it was pouring rain that we might be standing outside in it for hours. Good thing the folks at Book People are quite the pros at hosting book signings and they had us all inside and cozy while we waited for them to arrive.<br />
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They arrived right on time and were as sweet and approachable as they are on the blog. Their talk on writing their book was really interesting. I was exhausted just listening to them talk about the process. Most nights while doing the photo shoots for the book they only got a few hours of sleep. They also did not hire any stylist or any other help to do all the project shoots and the projects themselves. Each and every thing you see in the book they did. It is really inspiring. It all makes me even more excited for our bathroom remodel!<br />
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Anyway here they are talking to the group. Sherry is of course making a funny face because that is how she rolls:<br />
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After the talk Corey and I grabbed a coffee and waited to get out books signed. The store grouped us by letter section so we all did not have to stand in line forever. It worked quite well. After only about 30 minutes our group was called and we started to wait in line. It then hit me that I was going to get to talk to them. And I know you all are probably thinking, “So what?”, but these guys are like mom and dad’s Bob Villa to me! They are the reason I have been willing to do so much of my home projects. I read their blog every day and refer to them by first name to Parker whilst doing almost all of our home projects.
I of course began to freak out.<br />
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Corey gave me a look like “Keep it together Christine”:<br />
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And I had this look on my face:<br />
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It is blurry because I could not sit still I was such a wreck!<br />
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Anyway I decided I wanted to tell them that I refer to them by first name so much that Parker now refers to them as my besties (silly term for best friends). I did not, however, think about how creepy this would come off. Oh well I went with it.
Corey and I got up there, got our picture taken and then I stared to run my mouth. Sherry was gracious and said she thinks of other blogs as her friends and “besties” too and that she was glad I did the same. Yea right, I am sure she thought I was nuts. Oh well.
Here we are, being awesome with my besties!<br />
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They of course signed the book to their bestie, Christine! Woot! It makes me happy.
All in all it was a fun night. I am so glad I went. And if you have not read their blog you should do so. It is awesome, funny, thoughtful, and helpful!
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-27355781419862517712013-01-04T09:37:00.001-06:002013-01-09T19:23:41.277-06:00House Goals for 2013<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Happy new year everyone! We had a great year in 2012 and we
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First off, I am going to learn how to sew this year! Parker’s
very generous grandpa gave me a sewing machine and lessons for Christmas this
year and although I never thought about trying to learn to sew I can already
tell you I am enthralled with the idea of making lots of custom items for my
home on this fancy machine. Just in case you were wondering I got the “Baby
Lock – Grace” machine. It is amazing. </div>
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I plan on making curtains for the whole house on this bad
boy, straight lines are my friend. So far my inspiration comes from pictures
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I will let you know when I get started! </div>
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Secondly and probably the biggest DIY project I will ever
take on is our Master bathroom renovation! Yes, you heard me right Parker and I
are going to do our master bathroom renovation ourselves (mostly). We plan to
take out a small closet, frame out a new door move the sink (I know, we are
calling plumber) and tile a shower. We will also have to redo the floors and
install a new vanity. This is going to be major y’all. </div>
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Thirdly, install a ladder into the attic access in the garage.
Right now we just have a hole and we pull our ladder up to it. Although it is
not that big of a deal we plan on using the attic as storage for a lot of our
Christmas décor and getting in and out of that area easily will be a big help.
Plus we went to Home Depot the other day and we found that these attic access
ladder things are not much more than $150. Not too bad. </div>
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If I can get these three big house projects done this year I
will be super happy with us. I fear the master bathroom project is going to
take at least a month because Parker works on weekends and we are limited to
how many hours we have together to get this all done. I will be back later with
all the mood boards and ideas I have out there for this project and show you
some detailed before pictures. Trust me you are going to be amazed we have been
able to deal with this bathroom for 6 months. </div>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-12547039758845497192012-12-26T14:09:00.000-06:002012-12-26T14:09:00.015-06:00First fire fail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Parker was super nice to offer to make a fire for me. It was the first night this whole year that it was going to freeze so we thought it would be fitting.<br />
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Parker got all the fixings for the fire and the Eagle Scout in him set up a great looking fire. Here he is working away! Don't you like our fireplace by the way? <br />
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Pretty fire with the stockings hung with care. <br />
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What we did not think of was how the house would smell after we made the fire with wood from the backyard. So although the fire was gorgeous and we enjoyed it, it also STANK!!!! So three weeks later our house still smells like fire and we will not be setting a real fire in there again. At least until we can figure out how to make sure the house will not stink after we have one.<br />
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-7241444774940596592012-12-20T14:05:00.003-06:002012-12-20T14:10:28.065-06:00An $89 Headboard<div>
I know it has been forever, sorry about that. We have been super busy celebrating lots of family birthdays and the holidays. But We have also been busy doing stuff around the house. The most significant would probably be the new headboard I made with my mother in law and Parker over the Thanksgiving holiday.<br />
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I had been planning on making this headboard for a while. It was always a "When I find the right fabric, or time to make it I will". Well with MIL on hand and time to do it I felt it was go time in the house.<br />
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MIL and I headed over to a new fabric store and they just so happened to have the exact fabric I had been looking for. It is nice and heavy and fairly neutral so if I wanted to change the colors of the room or our bedding I could.<br />
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After buying 3 yards of the fabric, a bunch of extra thick batting, a piece of plywood (cut in half to fit in our car), extra long screws, nuts and bolts and some 2x4 pieces to be the legs we hauled everything back to the house and got started. Every one of the tutorials I read about said this was a super easy project and I was hoping to be done with it in just a few hours. Well, it was fairly easy but it took a lot more time than I had planned.<br />
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First we assembled the plywood and screwed the pieces together with a remnant to reinforce it. We then began to wrap the headboard like a present with the first and then a second layer of extra thick batting. Here is what it looked like after both layers were stapled onto the plywood.<br />
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Then we wrapped the whole head board in the fabric making sure it was laying flat and pulled tightly around the batting. We wanted to make sure it looked even and no pulling effect was happening so we took our time and used a lot of staples. Here is what it looked like without the legs attached and after about two hours of work. pretty nice right?<br />
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Then we began the next day with attaching the legs to the headboard. This is where we ended up having a problem. See the back of the headboard had become super thick because we had been folding the batting and then the fabric down and stapling it. so when we went to screw in the legs the fabric keept getting caught on the screws and the legs would not attach. To our horror we realized we needed to take the fabric off and attach the legs directly to the plywood and then re-wrap the legs with the fabric. After many hours of fussing with the legs and the MIL helping me figure it all our we finally were ready to attach the headboard to the bed frame.<br />
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After fussing with the bolts and getting everything even and attached we finally could see the fruits of our labor. I think it came out awesome! The whole thing cost me $89 not the close to $2000 I was going to spend on the bed frame I love from Crate and Barrel. Luckily now we have more cash saved up for the bathroom renovation we are plotting for spring of next year. Woot!<br />
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Apparently we need to get out trees trimmed!<br />
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I came home the other night to this in our front lawn! What the heck? Our neighbor told us that we had some high winds in the area. I did not notice that, but I guess he is right.<br />
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These trees are pretty large in the front of the house. We are very lucky that nothing happened to the house. There was no damage to the roof, and to the lawn really. I can't believe it! I am hoping Parker will write a post for you all about breaking down the tree and disposal. He even got to use a chainsaw!<br />
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Hope all is going well with you all! I will be posting about our Halloween decor and more later this week! <br />
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As I mentioned to you the other week I made some home made art for Parker for our annaversary. I wanted to save money and be creative this year and I think I accomplished both! Two years is your cotton anniversary. Well since we did not have a met yet I did not want to get sheets wich is the obviousl cotton gift. I also did not want to get Parker any clothes as we are both working hard to loose some weight and I was not sure if it would fit him once he did.<br />
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So I came up with the idea of making art on canvas. I have seen a dew other blogs do the same thing and I figured I could pull it off. I used a coupon and bought two canvases on sale and Jo Ann's and then use paint samples we already had. In the end I probably only spent around $15 on the whole thing. <br />
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Once I gathered my materials I got to painting. I had seen a few ideas for what I wanted to paint but in the end chose the words from the long we walked down the ilse to at our wedding. The Beatles are my mom's favorite and I have always loved this song.<br />
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Here is how my first attempt at home made art came out. What do you think? <br />
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I know, it is kind of awesome! I love the whole look! The colors just happened to go well together in the room and they were free!<br />
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After Parker got his gift we decided to hang it up for the world to see. I like that it is right next to our bed reminding us of our special day and a good message to live by. <br />
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After hanging this artwork up I decided to hang other art up in the room. Hey, it's been 5 months I guess it is time. Next I hung up a map of Venice over Parker's new dresser. I also put out a picture of the family ad an eagle that his mom recently gave us from when Parker earned his eagle scout. I love the way this looks. <br />
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Above is a picture Parker's grandma painted and Parker's mom gave us just after we moved in together. I have always liked it and imagined having it in a special place in our home. I think it brightens up the muted colors in the rest of the room well.<br />
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So there you have it. We now have stuff to look at in our room. Things are slowly coming together in the house. It is amazing to me that even 5 months into living here I still feel like we are just moving in. I hope you like what we are doing with the place. We sure do! :) </div>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04965210785836436564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305389361845719573.post-14690012410096053782012-10-03T08:27:00.003-05:002012-10-03T14:26:22.982-05:00Fit for a kingThe evolution of our bedroom started a few years back when I found some great pillows at a sale at Dillards. Since then I have been trying to make our master bedroom feel less like a broker 20 year-old’s bedroom or like my mom’s house (no offense mom!) and more like OUR house. I have discovered this is the challenge for a lot of young couples starting out. Not only are you just getting started on your life together but then you have to cross the bridges of who gets to have what in their own bedroom. The fact of the matter is it takes time. That is what this post is about; the evolution of our bedroom’s style over time.<br />
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So with that let’s take a look back at the first picture I have after I bought some pillows on sale at Dillards just after we got married in January of 2011. We were using Parker’s bed and my old bed frame, and tables that I have had since college. Also know this picture was taken in our old apartment at night so it really looks super dark in there. It was much less cave like in person.<br />
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After a visit to my good friend Sarah’s house in Philadelphia I got inspired to get a more traditional quilt for our bed. After looking around a bit I found a really cute quilt at Marshalls for something like $30. I had the wherewithal to buy a king sized quilt knowing that we would eventually buy a bigger bed.You can see it on the bed in the picture below. When we moved into our new house, with a much bigger bedroom our bed looked very out of place in the space. It actually looked tiny! Here is a picture just after we moved in.<br />
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After a few more months of sleeping on this bedframe and mattress in the house Parker and I decided it was time to finally upgrade. Between his back pain and my hip pain we knew that us wanting a mattress was not just about vanity but also comfort. We had actually been trying to wait until Christmas this year so we could give the bed to each other. We figured though, it was best to try and get the bed now instead of continuing to sleep on a mattress we no longer we comfortable on. So without further a due, here it is in all its glory!<br />
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Isn’t she pretty? We ended up going with a traditional coil bed after much debate about getting a foam mattress. It is a Beautyrest Elite king pillow top with individually wrapped coils. It was almost half the price of the memory foam mattress that we liked, and is super soft and comfy. For now, and for the next decade, it is exactly what we need. We had it delivered for free the next day and had our old one hauled away. We are pretty happy about it so far, but it defiantly needs to be broken in. It is not nearly as soft as the one in the store was. But the great thing with it is if we don’t like it after 90 days we can return it!<br />
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Now, with a new bed comes the fun part (for me at least, Parker not so much) new bedding! We had actually saved a bunch of money from gift cards from our wedding two years ago, knowing that we would one day have to make this purchase. So it was fun to not have to hold back because of cost. We went with a duvet from Crate and Barrel. It is actually like their super popular one right now, so I had to special order it wich was a whole debachle. But now that it is on there with our new grey sheets and old quilt I am in love with it! What do you think? Here are some detail shots. As you can see, after all of this, I am still using those pillows I got on sale at Dillards years ago! <br />
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Now that we have the bed all set up we need to make a headboard. I am going to attempt that this weekend. We also need to adjust a few more things in the room. In the end I think we have done a great job of combining our styles to make a room the modern and comfortable for both of us. Can’t wait to start on the next project!
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