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The tile saga continues…

by jasonmarkjones • on 03. Dec, 2009 • in Blog, home improvement

We found out today at 3:30 that we would have 0% use of our bathroom for the next 2 days. We’ve been squeaking by with being able to use the toilet, kitchen sink, and nightly trips to friends’ showers (thank you Fordyces, Mayottes, and McGuigans!)

But seriously, who tells a 9 month pregnant woman that she can’t use her own bathroom? or better yet, who says that you will be able to use your toilet throughout the whole retiling process and then takes it back with no notice? Oh well, being frustrated won’t solve anything. Here are some photos from the day.

Pregnant ladies of JLOOP

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Tortoise-paced tile

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The bed of a nomad…
Also, the same bedspread I had from my Wyland days

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I see tile!

by jasonmarkjones • on 29. Nov, 2009 • in Blog, home improvement

The first day of actual tile has taken place. We are getting excited and it isn’t even the good stuff yet. I can’t wait to see what the black beaded lining and the hex floor tile is going to look like. Now for some of the not-so-glamourous work of sanding and priming the old medicine cabinet.
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Current State of the Bathroom

by jasonmarkjones • on 19. Nov, 2009 • in Blog, home improvement

Well, tile was supposed to start installation today, but it didn’t. Mark and I (mainly Mark) have been hard at work demoing and installing the window/drywall in the bathroom. I can’t thank him enough for all the help he has been. Here is what the bathroom looks like as of today. No tile, no sink, non-operating shower/tub. Pretty exciting stuff…it’ll be even more exciting when we can start using it again!

Atleast we have a window!

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Our house projects – phase 1

by jasonmarkjones • on 09. Jul, 2009 • in Blog, design, news

I’m pretty sure we put in more than a 40 work week on our new house over just last WEEKEND! We wasted no time in getting things ready as we thought it would be easier to paint and wallpaper and clean everything BEFORE we moved all of our junk in. It would have also been a good idea to throw away most of the junk we moved from the last place to this place, but we just didn’t have enough time to go through it all and talk ourselves into parting with the useless stuff we hang on to. So i’m going to start posting photos of our progress. I’m really happy with all the work we have done so far, but there is so much further to go.

Here is the kitchen wallpaper/painting.
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Here is the current state of our bedroom with the new seafoam color on the walls
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The happy couple, in front of our new home…and our pre-baby baby Henry
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And the next project on the list is to take out the linoleum floors in the kitchen and bathroom and replace it with some tiny awesome subway tiling like this…
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Maybe some green cupboards while we’re at it?

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