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Let’s Finish Renovating the Basement Bathroom

Where did I leave off with this project? I’m very overdue with this post considering the bathroom has been finished for a quite some time. Whoops! After installing the shower base and waterproofing the shower area, we decided to take a break from the shower while we planned out the rest of that area and […]

Hanging cement backer board in a walk-in shower

How to Install and Waterproof a Walk-in Shower

Remember that basement bathroom project I mentioned almost 5 months ago? Thanks to delays and other issues, our timeline has been waaaaay extended. This was suppose to be our winter project and it has quickly turned into “can we get this done by the end of 2021?” project. But First – Delays & Trial & […]

Bathroom Updates

$500 Master Bathroom Refresh

We’re coming up on being in our house for three years and I feel like we have made SO much progress in that time. However, there are two rooms that have virtually been left untouched: the basement bathroom and the master bathroom. After we moved in, we went back and forth on whether we gut […]

Updating the Powder Room : Round 2

I’ve never been 100% pleased with our powder room (the only bathroom on the main level of our house), even after the updates we did in 2017. I knew it wasn’t “finished” and it was just asking for more. So I gave that little powder room what it asked for. Recap This is how the […]

Fireplace Built-Ins Revamp

One of the things I’ve always wanted in a house is built-ins, preferably around a fireplace. Lucky for me, the house we purchased 2.5 years ago came with exactly that! Except it was nowhere near what I had envisioned. The fireplace and built-ins in our family room were original from when the house was built […]