Oh, the difference in having proper equipment! We paid out like suckers – went to the garden shop and parted with over a hundred bucks for four feet of spring-time sanity: a Jump Start Grow Light. (Only $60 at U.S. Amazon? What the HELL, Canada). Boom time? Oh, I think so. It has a pulley system, [...]
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So far in our ugly guest post series we’ve been to Racist Granny’s House to see Canada’s most astonishing boob light (thanks to Jan), and we’ve fought cockroaches and fallen through the floor with Jessica. We even went to Minnesota in December – to check out Sally’s ugly great room. Today’s incredible tale of ugly [...]
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Biggest benefit of having a blog where you admit, daily, you don’t know what you’re doing? Lovely people spoon-feed you good ideas and stellar research. You guys have seen Jessica‘s helpful tips in comments, but behind the scenes are plenty of emails with even more advice – by an easy estimate she’s saved us $200+ [...]
Guys. Mega problem. I’ve fallen in love with two things – and they can’t co-exist. I’m getting a dog next year. I’m saying this so it happens – because that’s what you’re meant to do with life-long hopes and dreams. Let’s outline how much I’ve wanted one thing and one thing only for my entire life: [...]
(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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bathroom vinyl tile? Perhaps others might research a product before they buy it – but we optimistically brought our loot home, and then set about Googling. [Previously: We totally sucked at choosing bathroom floor tile, then discovered Home Depot's vinyl tile]. We’d read the vinyl tile advantages in the store – what was the catch? [...]
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Previous scene: Home Depot, choosing bathroom floor tile. We wandered about, Paolo doing whatever Canadian boys do… and me holding up my idiot-swatch to potential tile contenders. Ideally we wanted those long oblong ones… for reasons neither of us could articulate. “What abooooout…. vinyl tile?” “What’s that?” “No idea. I just read the sign.” Never [...]
