by Karen | attic, drywall, electrical, speaker
Mike has been wanting to install ceiling speakers in our living room for a very long time. Finally, we got around to doing it. We purchased In-Ceiling Yamaha Speakers. Step 1: Mike used a stud finder to locate the beams, designating their location with blue tape. Step...
by Karen | blinds, moulding, window |
When we bought our house, all the windows had old aluminum blinds so we threw them out: We replaced them with expensive silhouette blinds. I thought they looked great at first but over time I began to hate them. For one, our cats were slowly destroying them. They were...
by Karen | backyard, crawl space, plumbing
Our backyard water line had been leaking for a while. It was a slow leak but we finally got around to fixing it. We thought it would be an easy fix to swap out the old leaking faucet for a new one. It turned out the old faucet pieces were welded together so when Mike...
by Karen | door, drywall, exhaust fan, master bathroom, moulding, paint, plumbing, second bathroom, tile, toilet, vanity |
Our master bathroom was the one room we didn’t remodel when we moved in. I knew I wanted to remodel the entire room so we wanted to wait for the right time so we could take our time and not feel rushed (like with the second bathroom remodel). Fast forward to...
by Karen | door, drywall, electrical, master bathroom, moulding
When we bought our house, the master bathroom had a bifold door. That was one of the first things we ripped out. I’d rather have no door than a bifold one – we don’t live in an RV: We initially installed a normal door that swung out instead of in...