Two smart people doing stupid things? Surely not. And yet, for far too long, we had no interior door handles. Questions of fire safety spring to mind… we do know better. As such, here’s a retrospective public service – passing along a non-alcoholic portion of our nightly routine. Whether moving and unpacking, rearranging or renovating, almost all [...]
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Part 2 of Meg’s ugly house tour (read part 1). Today’s includes what’s probably the most disgusting house story I’ve ever heard. Even worse than Jessica’s kitchen cockroaches. Meet My Ugly… KITCHEN! Functional? Practical? Beautiful? Choose one, or go cry in a corner because you got none of these, ever? Sounds about right! This kitchen [...]
Mr. Chin wasn’t impressed. Our kitchen walls needed some interest. “They are dead and boring,” he told us – losing something in the translation. Open shelves had been the original plan when we ripped off the upper cabinets and sent them downstairs, and then that got stalled. Never came to a decision about style or [...]
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(Vancouver got cold and rainy so I left. Now I’m back. Let’s resume activity…) Laundry room: part 2 of a few (Previously: Death by Vinyl Tile Glue). With red eyes and quivering lip, I nodded agreement to the next best thing. A different box of groutable vinyl tile in a more rough-&-ready beige stone. Random [...]
Oh, my good friends, I’ve tasted demon juice and you won’t like it. We bought the laundry room floor last year when a massive, massive sale aligned with our massive, massive disinterest in our tiny laundry closet-room. Large, square vinyl tiles, inoffensive beige, pennies each. Whatevs, man. We made off like bandits with the stuff. [...]
Just because it’s shiny doesn’t mean it’s new. Saving money we don’t have is a decent game and winning meant the moved kitchen cabinets were only getting new handles for Christmas. We’d tart them up with some white paint and… the hinges? Ah. The hinges. We’d eagerly bought shiny new hinges before fully studying the [...]
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The wallpaper is long gone. Walls are painted, there’s light, and the vinyl tiles installed and grouted. After a small battle, we even have a bright white new toilet. Still missing from the picture: (black) Groland the bathroom vanity, white Toto, tap. Funny how brushing your teeth in the kitchen sink can become second nature. We [...]
After installing vinyl tiles, they asked for a day’s sticky-sticking time before we walked on or grout them. Yea – or not. “My house – my rules. You’ll stick – and you’ll stick now.” The vinyl tile box had specified the size of grout spacers required, and we’d simply picked up the ready-mixed pot of [...]
Last year, we gingerly exhumed the world’s most disgusting drawers and scrubbed them back to life. It was grotty. Easily amongst the top 3 least attractive tasks of this entire project. Ever been frightened by a drawer? Meet My Ugly, filthy, foul & rancid kitchen drawer – does the literature suggest the last time it [...]
And heave-ho, in went the vinyl tiles! A lightning-quick run-down of that little process. First, it fell to me to clean the floor. Along the way Paolo’s somehow learned things about plumbing and wires. I need to rectify this skill imbalance quickly – because I don’t like the way my role is headed: bottom-dwelling floor scrubber. The [...]
