Victorian House Renovation in Bloomingdale, DC
That’s the magic number – for the single pieces of subway tile in our bathroom. I don’t think either us or our contractors anticipated quite what that entailed when we set out on this adventure of tiling the whole room floor to ceiling.
We both absolutely LOVE it. It looks great, and the guys did a great job with keeping striaght lines. Which is why it probably took so long.
And, check this out: a door!… Read the rest
More tile. To be sure we made some progress on that front, but how many times can I write about the tile. Ha-ha! That was just a trick, its all about the marble.
The sink was installed on Friday, and hooked up on Saturday (!). Up close:
The only parts left to tile are visible here. We have actually ran into a bit of trouble here. Home Depot/Lowes do not sell short-side cove subway tiles.… Read the rest
This week, every day on my way home I would think – ah, today is going to be the day that I will post about the finished tile in the upstairs bathroom. Alas. Its been five working days since the last construction update, and I have lost my patience. Here’s our progress, which to be far, also includes some electrical work.
The left wall with a tiled shower niche and a recessed opening for the medicine cabinet:
The right wall, which has actually been complete for awhile, but here it is anyway:
The back wall, where the window frame has to come out in order to be leveled – almost there:
And finally, the front wall which will feature a recessed shelf.… Read the rest
Good news! the right bathroom wall is all fixed up and looking straight:
more good news: our crew owned up to the mistake and we didn’t have any problems when we asked them to redo the wall. that made me feel a whole lot better on Tuesday.
The bathroom is slowly but surely coming together. I can’t wait to see the subway tile with all the grout lines.
My excited face, no really:
Actually, this was just for the scale sake – I am just under 5’6″.… Read the rest
We came home on Monday to find this:
At first glance it looked good. But then something looked off. the wall looked wavy?!
Sure enough:
ARGH $^*#@%*&@# its increasingly looking like we aren’t going to be anywhere close to finishing on schedule…… Read the rest
Clawfoot tub has arriveth in its final resting spot. With tub feet on and all.
It was a glorious site to behold when we got home on Friday night. Because this week our contractors are on vacation. I don’t think I could have gone on for another week without a shower.
**Full disclosure: Our very kind friends actually invited us to stay at their very nice, not dusty, clean, with running water apartment for 10 days while they went on vacation.… Read the rest
A sneak peak into something awesome! Ta-da: Our upstairs bathroom floor.
Beautiful, huh? We are still so far away, and its moving sooooooo slowly. but at least we like where we are going with this. Here’s the floor with additional layer of thinset before the tile was put down:
There is some progress in the small half bath downstairs too. We got a ceiling frame and noise maker vent fan was installed.… Read the rest
We have visible progress! More of it! Yay. We already mentioned that heated floors were on the agenda, but here they are all set into the upstairs bathroom floor (also notice the sink hook up, there and waiting):
And our bathroom floor all covered up and ready for more thin set and tiles – a highly exciting prospect that gets us one step closer to functional bath, since as of right now we are still shower-less and sink-less.… Read the rest
Hope everyone had a nice fourth – ours was great, we actually had about 15 people over to grill and watch fireworks. Our roof view is privy to a pretty spectacular amateur show in addition to the national display on the Harbor and the Mall.
Pictures by Sergey from 4 July 2011, please stand by for this year’s link.
Anyway, progress has been slow and steady on the construction front; Sergey is actually very pleased with the quality of the work.… Read the rest
Ah its good to be home. Sergey and I took an unexpected trip to Russia, a second home for us both. No serious reasons, thankfully, just an unexpected and opportune alignment of circumstances.
In my hometown of Petrozavodsk (yes it was cold).
Meanwhile progress has been chugging along here. Thank you to Kirill for keeping a watch here and sending us pictures. Here’s a recap of what happened over the last four days of construction.… Read the rest