We need your vote!

Hey friends!

Rick and I need your help!

Help us pick out which kind of patterned tile we should lay for our tiny first floor bathroom floor!

Vote below!

A.

Less Black Tiles.

Please ignore that I screwed up on the top row of black dots!

Good thing it's a dry erase marker! 

B.

More Black Tiles

     

What tile should I use for Rick and I's tiny, first floor bathroom floor?
	A. Less black dots
	B. More black dots
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Thanks for your help guys!

I'll start laying tile by the end of this week!

You can vote once a day if you're really dedicated! 

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Oye! We've been busy and hot and quite the entertainers!

Here's a sneak peek at what's been filling up our days lately!

Remember the worlds tiniest bathroom? Not so tiny anymore! Well, sort of! If you look to the left you can see the wood two by four sticking out that is where the old bathroom wall stopped. So, everything past that beam is added on to the bathroom. We're finishing up the dry wall, finding some creative way to hide the two by four and shopping around for a tiny toilet.

Today my mom and their best friends/ my neighbors came to KC and we spent the whole day shopping. I tell you, that was one hell of a vacation from working on the house. I still found myself sanding plaster walls after they left. But Deb, Hi Deb! Helped get the ball rolling for me on decorating the tiny bathroom! OH I AM SO EXCITED to finally be making process and have things getting finished.

Rick and I also went tile shopping. We're going to stick with the vintage tiny hexagon tile floor for the tiny bathroom. So sometime this week I will be taking on the adventure of learning how to tile a floor. I'll be pulling out specific white tiles to replace with black tiles so it will look like there are little flowers all over the floor. Wish me luck.

The guest bathroom got a little bit of a make over! We kept the sink, tub, and half way up the wall tiles. Got some new lights, outlets, mirror shower curtain rugs and rods. We'll be replacing the toilet and the floor in due time. Since it seems like all the other bathroom floors and toilets in the house are leaky and yucky and time to be replaced. But, this bathroom is actually usable so a new floor and such will have to wait until we finish the master bathroom. Big huge Oye! again for the master bath. I don't even want to think about what we have to do with that yet.

OH! And did I mention... we got new blinds! YAY! No more towel paper clipped to block out the neighbors! I LOVE BLINDS. I love nice blinds. I hate cheap-o Walmart blinds. It is so worth the extra money to buy thick nice blinds! We also got blinds for our master bedroom. They match our wood work sooo good! Some time I'll manage to snap a decent picture of them. Some things are really hard to take pictures of with just an iPhone. I  need a decent camera.

oh! Here's a little nudge to where I get these wonderful blinds! www.blinds.com  I've been  nothing but happy with them. They are super, super easy to install and fast to install. The prices are reasonable. They can make blinds for any size window you want. They give you nice samples of different colors and woods you might need to try and match what you need. And for being custom made they arrive quite quickly!



We've been working on the dining room too. We installed lights in the china cabinets and painted the insides of them. We also have been experimenting with different colors to paint the ceiling. It's an on and off again tie between a copper red sort of color and a deep gold. We're also looking into the possibility of getting metal tiles up there instead too. Who knows!  Pictures someday soon too!


One more thing...

CONGRATS 

JOCELYN, DANNY AND MISS MADDIE 

ON YOUR NEW HOME!

May your new home forever bring you great things in life!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSAN AND RAMBO!

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY!

SUZY & RAMBO!

busy busy busy

For the last two weeks we have had a wonderful dumpster on our drive way to fill up. At first I thought we were going to need another one. But by the end of our two weeks we had filled it up perfectly to the rim. But we will be utilizing neighborhood dumpster day June 15th for sure. Also, when we redo the kitchen I'm sure we will need to invest in another dumpster!

We used, Budget Dumpster. 

They're an online service that helps you find a dumpster for anywhere in the United State! It was easy and cheap to get rid of a lot of junk! If you need a dumpster they have all sort of sizes for you to pick from. We're going to use them again!

So over the last week or so we have been.....

Knocking out walls like we have a two week time limit on a huge dumpster!

Giving the guest bathroom a facelift. All we need is to put a new floor in and we're set. But we're in no real big hurry to replace the floor. Personally I would do it this weekend! Just to say that we have one whole room totally 100% done. But, we have so much other crap to do that I'm quite alright with the crappy linoleum floor that is probably rotten. We'll get to it. We gotta get hustling on the first floor for this wedding!

Rick has become quite the plumber! 

I'm proud to say I helped get him to being as awesome as he's become. He'd been really concerned that he couldn't solder pipes and didn't know how to or wasn't good at it. We have a bunch of extra copper from removing an extra water heater so I told him PRACTICE!

 Practice he did and good he got!

Also...

We rented out our carriage house to our friend Robbie, Hi Robbie! But we were bad landlords in the matter that we had no idea what the carriage house had in store for us. We figured it was ready to live in. WRONG. As soon as we found the turn on valve for the water we struck a major nightmare! All the pipes had frozen and bursted and had really shotty repair and construction. Plus the old pipes were cast iron and copper and the cast iron parts were all clogged with God only knows what. Oh, and somehow the toilet was cracked in half?  So, lots of new pipes, a new toilet a whole new shower later, Robbie now has a livable apartment and Rick learned how to be a kick ass plumber in under a week! 

I'm really proud of you Rick! 

Also, while the last two weeks have been major demolition we took out our small shower in the original master bedroom bathroom, since we have a huge handicap accessible one less than ten feet away. We found this beaut behind one of the walls!

talk about a weird little closet!

It's lifted off the floor and it's shorter than the ceiling. But there's nice chair rail/molding around inside of it. I can't figure out why the heck they did it like that. We're not really sure what to do with it. I think it will be gone shortly. This little nook will someday be home to a tub for the bathroom. 

Oh and this weekend! We're dragging out all of the old doors, windows and door knobs we don't need and don't want and selling them at the hyde park garage sale this weekend! Stop by our yard and buy a door or a fancy door knob! Help us pay for our remodel/ wedding!