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You may cherish the flawless look of level paint (and sure, it makes a ravishing scenery for your family room or room). In any case, when it comes time to cover your kitchen, select a completion that is both simple to perfect and extreme enough to deal with continued scouring. That implies getting sparkly. 

When we lived in our condo, I found some amazing reasonably-priced bamboo shades at Home Depot. They could customize the width for me, and I also found that I could do it myself using my miter saw. After all, they were wood shades. Those bamboo shades became my go-to shades of choice on all of the windows in the condo (all four of them 😀 ), and I also used them when we moved into our house. Any time someone I knew was looking for bamboo shades, I’d recommend them. When I was decorating other people’s homes, I would use these shades. I mean, that’s how much I loved them. And then Home Depot stopped carrying them. Lowe’s had other bamboo shades, but they didn’t have anything like my favorite ones. I searched and searched online, and never could find any that were exactly like my favorites. I found similar ones, but I was always disappointed with them. As I’ve been working my way through the rooms of our house, I had one remaining shade from the condo that would work on a window in the house, and that’s the window in the pantry. But after I used that one, […]
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If you showed up here today hoping to see a finished portion of the bathroom walls, I need to apologize, because I have nothing but disappointment for you today. Yes, I had planned to show you a completely finished section of the bathroom wall. I knew that if I picked up where I left off on Thursday, and continued working on Friday and Saturday, I’d have at least one portion of the wall completely finished. But the more I looked at the section of the wall that I thought was nearing completion, the more I realized it needed some pretty significant adjustments. This wainscoting just seemed off to me. It looked completely unbalanced. The problem is that it seemed to be too open-ended. That’s how I would describe how it looks to my eye, at least. I’m not sure if it makes sense to anyone else, though. The fact is that on Thursday when I finished working on the wall, I knew it was off. But I thought I could push through, make a minor adjustment, and keep on rolling. Here’s what it originally looked like on Thursday evening. Look closely at the trim that I used along the floor. […]
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I’m on the final home stretch with the bathroom remodel. The last big project is the DIY wainscoting, and for these bathroom walls, I decided to do a judge’s paneling with a tile accent. That should come as no shock since it’s what I did in the hallway bathroom as well, and it’s one of my favorite features of that bathroom. So naturally, I’d want my favorite design feature to be repeated in this bathroom. I haven’t gotten a section completely finished yet, but I did make great progress on this one section… It just needs to be caulked, primed, and painted. And then I can add the tile accent, and this section will be done. The biggest challenge is figuring out how to incorporate the tile accent around the vanity countertops. Because that will determine how the wainscoting needs to be applied to rest of the walls where there is no vanity or countertop. I’ve done this two different ways in the past. In the hallway bathroom, I carried the trim and the tile all the way around the room, with both the trim and the tile included in the backsplash around the vanity countertop. While I do like […]
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I know this might seem a little anticlimactic to those of you who have been following this master bathroom remodel because you’ve already seen one finished vanity, and you’ve already seen the finished middle cabinet. So seeing a second identical vanity isn’t really all that exciting. But this feels like a HUGE victory to me! Last night, I got the second vanity, and the final piece, finished for this 12.5-foot-wide wall. I’m very happy with how they turned out. It’s very exciting to have a vision, see that vision come to life, and have it look almost exactly like I had envisioned it in my mind. Here’s the drawing I did of this wall back in April… And here’s my vision as reality… Now I need to finish the walls so that I can actually attach the vanities to the wall and get them ready for countertops. And I was so anxious to see what the sinks will look like, so I rigged the left vanity with some scrap lumber used as supports so that I could see one of the sinks in place. Of course, the sink will actually be undermounted, so it won’t be sitting up that high. […]
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I continued working on our master bathroom this past weekend, and while I didn’t quite get the second vanity finished, I did make progress on it. The drawer boxes are finished and installed, and the drawer fronts are made. Now I just have to attach the drawer fronts and apply the finish to the vanity, and I’ll have all three of the cabinet/furniture components (I’m not quite sure what to call them since they’re not standard cabinets) of that 12.5-foot wall finished. If you’ve missed the latest progress on our master bathroom remodel (we turned the former master bedroom into a large and accessible master bathroom), you can catch up on all of the latest here: Master Bathroom Remodel – From Start To Present I can see the finish line, y’all! It’s coming closer into view with each passing day, and I’m getting more and more excited about seeing this bathroom finally finished. But as I get closer to that finish line, I’m starting to think through all of the little finishing touches that I need and want to add, and that brings me the two largest blank wall areas in the main area of the bathroom — the wall […]
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Do you know what I realized a few days ago? I pretty much already have a clover lawn. Well, at least I think I do. I had never really paid much attention to it, because every time I look at our yard, all I see is weeds. All of my life, I’ve thought that lawns are grass. Only grass. So when I see something other than grass, my mind thinks “weeds.” I’ve been thinking about non-grass lawns quite a bit lately since someone sent me this Instagram reel with a woman showing a different kind of ground cover. The one she shows is a succulent, and I think it’s one that thrives in California. I don’t know that it would do well here in central Texas. But it did get me thinking more about non-grass groundcovers. And then this past Tuesday, after the mowers got through mowing, edging, and cleaning up, I was actually pretty amazed at how pretty our front yard looked! Since the day we moved into our house, we’ve never done anything to our yard. We have no landscaping, no grass, no sprinkler system. And yet, I noticed this week after the mowers left (we have our […]
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Vicostone Elysian. I read every single one of your comments on yesterday’s post (including Facebook comments), and I was surprised at how many of you preferred Elysian. And while I didn’t actually tally up the votes, I’m pretty sure Elysian was the crowd favorite. I chose this one for the exact reason so many of you mentioned. The others looked too much like I was trying to match the floor and missed. This light gray looks like an intentional design choice that was made to coordinate while not intending to match. And I love how it looks with the walnut wood of the vanities and storage cabinet. I forgot to add pictures of the samples with the sink in yesterday’s post, so here’s a view of the Elysian with the sink, which has a soft matte white finish. The Elysian was definitely my favorite with the sink. A couple of you mentioned the backsplash tile. I personally love it, but I’m not married to it. Quite honestly, if I were to find something else that I love in the next few days, I wouldn’t have any problem changing course on that decision. But I do love this glass tile. The […]
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This past weekend, I focused mainly on finishing the DIY chest of drawers for our master bathroom. And while I got the bulk of the project finished, the rest of it is going to have to wait a few days. But I’ll explain all of that in a minute. This is the second post about this project. If you missed the first post, you can click here to read it: DIY Chest Of Drawers — Part 1 (Walnut Storage Cabinet For Our Bathroom) So let me show you how this walnut cabinet looks at this point… I still need to finish the top and attach the trim along the bottom, but I got the hardest part of the project done. I finished the drawer fronts, got them attached to the drawer boxes, and then installed the drawer pulls. The Part 1 post about this project doesn’t include info about how I built the drawer fronts because I already covered that info in the post about the DIY table-style vanity. You can click here to read about that: DIY Table-Style Bathroom Vanity With Drawers – Finished! (Part 2 — Making The Drawer Fronts) I followed those exact steps to make the […]
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I’ve been working steadily on the cabinet for the master bathroom. I’ve gotten through most of the tedious stuff — building, veneer edge banding, sanding, and installing all of the drawer boxes, plus building and sanding all of the drawer front frames. I think I’ve gotten far enough to where I can reasonably expect to finish this cabinet this weekend. I still need to finish the drawer fronts (but the part left is the easy part) and attach them, use my router on that bottom board to make a pretty trim piece, and then make a countertop. I would LOVE to be able to finish building this cabinet, and then get the Rubio Monocoat finish on it this weekend. What an accomplishment that would be! As far as the vanities go, I still need to make the drawer boxes and drawer fronts for this one… And then I need to do just a little bit of tweaking to this one to bring the drawers forward just a bit so that they won’t be set back so far under the countertop… The middle cabinet is all sanded and ready for its Rubio Monocoat finish, but the vanities still need to be […]
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It hit me yesterday just how close I am to finishing the master bathroom. Once I get all of the cabinets built (I spent all day yesterday building drawer boxes), that leaves the wainscoting on six short wall sections, a bit of tiling, painting two doors, and then a few finishing touches. I mean, the finish line is clearly within sight now! That’s very exciting. As soon as that’s done, I’ll move on to the home gym and get that room finished. Once I get all of the building projects done for the bathroom, I can get my tools moved out of the home gym, clean up all of the sawdust, and do those few remaining projects in that room. Just getting the floor cleaned up and the foam gym floor down will make a huge difference in this room. Of course, I need to finish the trim and get all of that painted, as well as my wall paint touchups done first. But I do think the rest of this room could go fairly quickly once I get all of the bathroom stuff cleared out. And then, do y’all realize that leaves me with just one remaining room inside […]
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I hit a bit of a bump in the road with the quartz countertops for our bathroom vanities. Long ago, I had made a decision on what I wanted, and where I was getting it, but I learned last Friday that I had some miscommunication with that place. They only offers 3cm quartz countertops (about 1 1/4″ thick), and I want 2cm (about 3/4″ thick) countertops for our bathroom. I’m so glad I realized that before they came out and measured and started the process! So yesterday, I had to start from the beginning, with a new place, and new quartz countertop options for our bathroom. I actually love the four new options far more than my original selection, which was just a plain white quartz with very light gray speckles. I don’t think this is the exact one I chose originally, but it’s pretty close. That one is Corian Cloud White in a polished finish, and I’m pretty sure it’s what I have in the studio half bathroom. I brought it home from the new place because it was so much like the one I had originally chosen, but I ruled it out almost immediately because they had so […]
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The DIY chest of drawers in our bathroom is finished! I had hoped to get both the storage cabinet and the second vanity finished this weekend, but the storage cabinet took way longer than I thought it would. But it’s finally done! If you missed the first two posts on this DIY chest of drawers, you can find those here: DIY Chest Of Drawers — Part 1 (Walnut Storage Cabinet For Our Bathroom) DIY Chest Of Drawers — Part 2 (Walnut Storage Cabinet For Our Bathroom) When I left off at the end of Part 2 of this project, the storage cabinet looked like this… The bulk of the work was done, but I still needed to make and attach the top, and then add the trim along the bottom. And then the whole thing needed to be finished with the Rubio Monocoat finish. Now that the DIY chest of drawers is finished, this is what it looks like… I had originally planned to use my router to create a pretty edge profile around the top, as well as on the top edge of the bottom trim. But because of the simple and squared design of the drawers, I decided […]
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I’m still waiting for the wood veneer to arrive so that I can finish the storage cabinet in the master bathroom (it was supposed to be here yesterday, but delivery was delayed until today), so yesterday, I got to work on the wainscoting that will cover the walls below the blue-green Venetian plaster finish. I’m going to do the very same judge’s paneling in here that I did in the hallway bathroom. I still need to add add the base cap trim inside the rectangles. Right now, it just looks like a simple board and batten design, and that’s not quite the look I’m going for. So there’s quite a bit still left to do, and the areas around the vanities, I can only go so far, and then the countertops will need to be installed before I can finish the rest. But the two lengths of wall that do not surround the vanity (the wall just outside the water closet, and the wall just outside the shower) can be completely finished without having to wait for countertops. I’m really trying to not let myself get bogged down with perfectionism on this, but that’s a very difficult thing for me […]
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Yesterday, I got one of the vanities for our master bathroom remodel completely finished. After doing much research on the best way to finish walnut, I decided to use Rubio Monocoat Oil Plus 2C. This product was brand new to me, but after watching videos and seeing how easy it is to use, I decided to give it a try. Before I get to that, let me back up just a bit for those who may have missed previous posts on this project. I built these table-style walnut vanities myself. If you’d like to see that project, you can find that here: DIY Table-Style Bathroom Vanity With Drawers (Part 1 — The Basic Build) DIY Table-Style Bathroom Vanity With Drawers – Finished! (Part 2 — Making The Drawer Fronts) And let me show you what it looks like now that it’s been finished with the Rubio Monocoat… Isn’t that gorgeous?! I absolutely LOVE it!! It makes me want to build with nothing but walnut in the future, and finish that walnut with nothing but Rubio Monocoat. Just look at how the finish brought out such a richness of color in that beautiful walnut! So let me show you how I […]
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I’d love to know what the longest time is that you’ve taken to finish a room. Y’all already know that the time I’ve been working on our master bathroom remodel is about 2.5 weeks shy of one year. And that’s only if you don’t count the time that our contractor spent doing the initial work to turn the bedroom into a bathroom. If we’re counting that time, then that project stands at around 14 months “in progress” right now. The danger (at least for me) in taking a year or more to finish a room is that during that time, I often come across other ideas that I want to incorporate, or I become dissatisfied with decisions I’ve already made because I come across something that I like better. Or, quite frankly, I just get tired of looking at the design I came up with all of those months (or years) ago, and I dream of something completely different. Fortunately, that hasn’t happened with the bathroom project. While I have had to make some changes along the way, the main changes were for purely practical reasons, like changing the design of the vanities to make things easier for a wheelchair […]
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My progress on the master bathroom is moving right along, and while I did get quite a bit done this weekend, I didn’t get nearly as much done as I could have because I ran into a problem that I’ve never had in all of my years of DIYing. On Friday, I went to Home Depot to purchase more 1/2-inch plywood to build the drawer boxes for the storage cabinet. (You can click here to read more about how I built the storage cabinet/chest of drawers.) There were only a few sheets left in stock, so I grabbed one that looked nice, had them cut it in half for me, and took it home to cut the pieces I need on my table saw. But the more I cut into the plywood, the more I noticed that the layers were actually coming apart. I was able to use about half of that sheet, but the other half wasn’t salvageable at all, so I took it back. They gave me a whole new sheet of plywood at a very steep discount (which basically amounted to 1/2 sheet to replace what I returned, and 1/2 sheet at 50% off). I got it […]
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Yesterday, I finished the basic build of the carcass for the DIY chest of drawers that I’m building to go between the vanities in our bathroom. Since our vanities needed to be wheelchair accessible, I built table bases with turned legs for those. You can click here to see the details of that project. But those don’t allow much room for storage, so this storage cabinet will go between those table-style vanities and provide all the storage we need. I got the carcass built and veneered with walnut veneer. Here’s how it looks right now… So let me show you how I built and veneered the basic carcass. I started by using my table saw to cut two pieces of 3/4-inch plywood to 35 inches high by 18.5 inches wide. Those would form the sides of the cabinet. Then I cut four pieces (only three show below) of 1″ x 4″ lumber to the finished width of the cabinet minus 1.5 inches. Now let me explain. I would generally use solid plywood for the backing of a cabinet. But plywood is expensive right now, and I’ve had this lumber on hand for a very long time now with no plans […]
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Yesterday, I showed y’all the finished DIY table-style bathroom vanity that I built for our master bathroom remodel. So today, I wanted to back up a bit and show the step-by-step process for how I made the drawer fronts. This is Part 2 of this vanity project. You can click here to find Part 1 showing the basic build for the table base and drawer boxes. So here’s another look at the finished vanity with the drawer fronts finished and attached. Hopefully you can see that the drawer fronts are made up of a frame with a recessed panel set inside. The frame is cut out of solid walnut lumber, and the recessed panel is 1/2-inch plywood covered with walnut wood veneer. With that basic info in mind, let me show you how I made these drawer fronts. I started with 1″ x 3″ walnut lumber and cut them down into pieces that are basically large square dowels. (1″ lumber is actually 3/4-inch thick, so I set my table saw fence to rip 3/4-inch widths and cut the pieces so that they were 3/4-inch by 3/4-inch.) Then I measured the thickness of the material I would be using for the […]
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