what did you get done on your house today?

[Lynners]

We re-installed the toilet in our only bathroom today. I may or may not have had to pee outside last night. It's a good thing we live in the country.

[eclecticcottage]

Last night we removed the old TV antenna pole and two dish network dishes that were on the roof (left the bolts in though, we will have to go back with roofing cement to fill the holes later). Also trimmed a tree, tried to kill a shrub that keeps trying to send volunteers all over the garden and trimmed a few things in the garden in general.

[steponmebbbboom]

finished stripping and priming the capital on the right.

[lavender_bush]

We re-installed the toilet in our only bathroom today. I may or may not have had to pee outside last night. It's a good thing we live in the country.

Ha, I feel your pain - I've spent over a week with only the use of a camping/chemical toilet. DH refused to stay over until the toilet was re installed. Next we need to fit the sink but neither of us sees that as a huge issue since we do have running water in the kitchen

Today I tiled but I was helping my DD at her house so my own tiling will wait for another day. Hey, it's not going anywhere and if I don't do it nobody else will.

The bathroom floor is at least finished.



Loo installed

[steponmebbbboom]

love, love, love the hex tile pattern. i'd suffer a whole month with a camping toilet for that floor. speaking of which, is that a modern WC or an antique?

[KathyJB]

[oldhouseluvr]

Planted the hosta yesterday.

[sooth]

That's a gorgeous sink. I rather like the Ming Green stuff. Very retro/cool. And you can't beat a price like that!

I also love the hex tile. If I had done more research before redoing my bathroom, that's what I would have put down.

[lavender_bush]

love, love, love the hex tile pattern. i'd suffer a whole month with a camping toilet for that floor. speaking of which, is that a modern WC or an antique?

Way, way, way back here on the forums is a post where not only did I brag about the cost of the hex tile (less than $14 a box instead of $50+) on a return shelf at Lowes but I also laid it out on our living room carpet and posted the picture here. I think that was in 2009

Edited to add the original brag - Yup, FEB. 2009
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About the same time as we bought the bathroom that has taken us way to long to fit, the set is aToto - Promenade.

In our defense it's our only bathroom and we weren't quite ready to un-install the old loo while we still had contractors in the house on a regular basis. Now we're down just to a trickle ( I know someone will make a joke) of contractors and we do let them to use the loo on the understanding that the bathroom has no door. Most are willing to wait until their lunch break or they whistle very loudly.

Our flooring guys installed their own curtain

[lavender_bush]

Today (well, actually yesterday but you get my drift) I painted the window in the breakfast nook white and DH said how crappy it looked.

Not my painting ability thankfully, but the brown/yellow foam insulation either side of the white plastic holding the 70/80's window in place and adding what could be called insulation, makes the window, to him, look 'off". We've had to screw the window closed to stop the top pane slamming down when it was opened and acting as a guillotine. Apparently my improvement makes the window look horrible - I admit I was sloppy painting over the foam.

So, to my mind the coat of white improved the window, but instead has persuaded DH that we do need to replace the window. I see a trip to my favorite salvage store in my future to match the window in the kitchen that I painted a couple of years ago and he said we needed to replace.

We spent time finding the correct wavy glass in the (old/new) frames. but if it makes him happy to get rid of a 'past it's prime' 70/80's window and salvage a window made of old growth wood with wavy glass? Then who am I to argue

Tomorrow I'm going to paint the kitchen window above the sink - fingers crossed he hates that one as much, it's a casement, is already failing and worse of all? It opens onto the back door so when it's open you have to open the door (inwards) and duck under the window to go down the stairs