Pro tip!: Don't ever spend four days straight in the bathroom if you don't have to. Whew. Lots of tedious-but-necessary-and-ultimately-satisfying tasks. I cleaned the floor vent as best I could in preparation for a fresh coat of paint. I haven't found Citristrip to be nearly as effective as Klean Strip, but I'm grateful to have [...]
Day 2! Full disclosure: this weekend won't end with triumphant After photos because I won't have our new shower curtain in hand until Tuesday. This is the drawback of real-time blogging. All totalled, I spent way too much time on this damn grate. I just wanted to get down to bare metal so that I [...]
Our country's independence gave me a glorious four-day weekend (thanks, Thomas Jefferson et al.!) and I'm celebrating with a bathroom makeover. My friend Kimberly suggested that I live-blog it. I won't be doing that exactly, but I do plan to post pictures each day of the previous day's progress. I'm usually a very slow blogger [...]
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Shortly after we moved into our current apartment I posted about the inevitable "I've made a huge mistake" phase that follows every relocation. Apparently that rule applies to virtual moves as well: I migrated from WordPress.com to WordPress.org this past weekend and, so far, feel as though I made a huuuuuge mistake. (Real quick, for [...]
Project Palermo 