3 Acres & 3000 Square Feet
This is the story of two twenty something newlyweds who are learning to adjust to life in their first house, a 1973 fixer-upper. Join us while we correct the previous owners mistakes and turn this house into our dream home.
Vanity Mishap
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- Published on Friday, 16 March 2012
Authors: Robin
So remember how we had a custom vanity and storage cabinet made for our main bathroom? And remember how we were going to have furniture like feet? Well apparently the cabinet maker didn’t. I had clearly explained it and drew up multiple drawings that were dimensioned out. Anal? Yes. Useful? I thought so but he only took...
Mudding, Priming, Painting
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- Published on Monday, 12 March 2012
Authors: Robin
We finally got around to mudding the drywall. It’s only been 3 months since we hung the drywall. We started with smaller taping knives and worked our way up to wider ones with each layer of mud.
The first coat of the long living room wall. A built-in will be going in the opening on the right.
The master bedroom’s first...
Spring is coming?
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 March 2012
Authors: Robin
We’ve had a very mild winter here in southern Wisconsin with only a handful of big snowstorms all season. So it was a little surprising to wake up to a big wet March snowfall the other day. The snow clung to every little branch and made our yard look like a winter wonderland.
The driveway.
The view of the pond from the middle...
DIY Epoxy Grout: It’s Really Not That Hard
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- Published on Friday, 02 March 2012
Authors: Robin
I wanted to title this post “Epoxy Grout: The Best Grout Ever Invented!” but I seeing as we just installed it I don’t have any daily bathroom observations of it yet. I have a feeling though I might have a post tiled that in the future because let me tell you this stuff is kind of amazing.
I know many of you are...
And….We Have Tile!
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Authors: Robin
Once the electric floor mats and Ditra was put down and sufficiently dried we went back and filled the Ditra squares. Pros and experienced tilers will do this step at the same time as laying down the tile but we decided to take everything nice and slow especially after messing up the previous layer of thinset. To fill in the waffle...
Heating, Decoupling, Waterproofing Tile Floors
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- Published on Monday, 06 February 2012
Authors: Robin
The main bathroom is moving along. We have the tub in, the last wall built, and the drywall up so it is time to work on the floors. The first thing we needed to do was install the electric in-floor heating mats. Yup that’s right we decided to add these two both bathrooms not just the master bathroom like we originally...
My New Favorite Magazine Our New Planting Zone
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- Published on Monday, 30 January 2012
Authors: Robin
You guys it’s like Christmas over here! Why? Because Erin just informed me the USDA has just come out with some new planting zone classifications and we have been bumped up from a Zone 4 to a Zone 5!! What no one else sees that as a big deal? Well it is because that opens up a whole new world of plants I can pick from....
Amateur Plumbers
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- Published on Thursday, 26 January 2012
Authors: Robin
With the tub in place we could build the wall between the toilet and tub. Originally I had drawn a slightly longer wall to give the toilet more privacy but Flannel Man was concerned about it being too dark over there. So we compromised with a shorter We also adjusted the shower tile layout a this time. Flannel Man wanted the...
Huston We Have A Tub!
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- Published on Thursday, 19 January 2012
Authors: Robin
When I came home this week I was greeted by a lovely site at the end of the hall:
The Kohler Bancroft 5′ tub that had been occupying our garage for the last 5 months was not only in the bathroom it was mudded in place! Flannel Man got up early and installed it with the help of Papa Flannel and our plumber. Originally we were...
Drywall’n In The House Tonight
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- Published on Monday, 09 January 2012
Authors: Robin
Getting back to where I left off last we had our electrical inspection and……wait for it…..we didn’t pass. Boo! Luckily it was just very minor things that could easily be added/fixed. There were two locations where the holes we drilled to run wiring in the 2×4 walls were 1″ from the edge of the...
