Few months since we paid someone to refinish our bathroom tile all white and shiny. So far? Success! I’ve even tried to learn about white balance for the occasion. Quick refresher: Same water pressure, same soap, and yet only the refinished, white version can make you feel clean. Obviously this Instant Results project was my favourite [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Sooooooooo. The bathroom?” “Uh huh.” “Well!!!” A few minutes of hysteria. Poor Paolo. In calmer tones, the situation was this: I’d have rather stopped bathing and teeth-brushing, than step foot in that bathroom ever again. Making the total effect even worse – I’d ages ago ripped down half a wall of wallpaper and removed all the [...]
We’d avoided the bathroom for long enough – and its shiny, “woodland-wonder-goes-to-the-bowling-alley” charm was growing thin. As the last major project in the renovation, the bathroom seemed far less daunting than the kitchen. Wallpaper? No problem. I knew exactly how to turn those walls into clean, fresh surfaces. Vanity and sink? Not such a big [...]
