last weekend we were excited to have 3 full days to work on the house.
mathew started by finishing the laundry room frame and wall siding on the new bathroom window that he made and installed. then he covered the plywood with some of that star paneling that was used upstairs on the walls. this will eventually be sanded and painted white to match the rest of the wall. i’ve almost forgotten that this used to be the bathroom door.
on saturday all i did was clean up recycled tile. we even got to re-use some of the white tile that used to be in the old (stenchy) pink upstairs bathroom. because the previous owners had used mastic (glue adhesive) instead of thin-set to install the tile, mathew found it was easier to clean using the heat gun in the garage. the white tile looks brand new!
on sunday i woke up with food poisoning so mathew worked alone for the rest of the weekend. he finished cleaning all the blue tile, cut and installed it to fit around the window, and floor.
and he even bought a dremel tool to grind out some of the old grout that wasn’t applied correctly. when i wandered down to take photos i was surprised by how much it sounded and smelled like drilling teeth at the dentist’s office. ick.
and mathew wouldn’t be mathew if he didn’t go one step further with the details. (left) he purchased, cut and corner-rounded some white marble for the window sill. the recycled white tiles are around the inside edge next to the window. more white marble will go around the outside of the window next to the blue tile, to give the impression of a window frame. it took us a while to decide exactly what to do in that space between the blue tile and the window. it would have been impossible (and not very pretty) to cut and install small pieces of the blue to fill that thin space. (right) and he routed and installed wainscoting top ledges that will go around the room. now it’s time for me to sand the wainscotting and make it pretty again.