It always seems to take longer than expected!
We have hardwood floors and want to remove the carpet from one bedroom and put in matching wood. It is site finished, no bevels, so I just need the right size and grade. Is there any trick to getting the best price? Places online look close to half the price of the local dealer, but am I getting what I pay for? Are there sites to avoid and sites to seek out?
@somemom - If youâre going to have it finished in place, then youâre right, you just need to get the same species, grade, and thickness. In that regard, wood is wood, and it shouldnât make any difference who you buy it from. Just be sure to give it enough time to acclimate to your climate before itâs installed.
Alternatively you could use a pre-finished product, either solid or engineered wood. This would require a threshold break between the rooms and it wouldnât be a perfect match, but youâd save a lot of time and money.
@momtogkc very cool wallpaper.
Thank goodness we didnât put off our stucco repair. The entire bottom of the north side of the house completely disintegrated when they went to sand out the cracks! They had to re-start from the entire mesh structure up. If we had waited, the exterior wood supports would have started to rot.
Oh wow. Perfect timing!
Has anyone tried to refinish a soaking tub, instead of replace it? I am looking at Miracle Method.
https://www.miraclemethod.com/bath-tub-refinishing.htm
I am worried about the smell, and the durability, so believe maybe we should rip out the 25 year old tub, and retile everything. We have to replace a shower, as its leaking, under a carpet⊠and get rid of carpet near the tub and shower, replace the entire floor with tile. Then, the vanity area, do I really need top flight quartz or will corian be OK in a bathroom? I donât want to make my bath too pricy as the house is a simple three bedroom.
I am in search of a plain white porcelain pedestal sink thatâs about 18 inches wide at its widest, and maybe 15 inches deep, and has a âbaseâ thatâs about 7 inches across, preferably round, but maybe the right other shape could work. Iâve spent thousands on the vanity area just outside the toilet, tub, sink area, and Iâm getting ready to put in a tile shower instead of the old 1 person jacuzzi tub. I donât want a $100 18 inch vanity with a plastic sink top, and I donât want to spend another probably several hundred bucks or more to have one made. I just want to replace the ugly sink thatâs currently there. (I want to call it a scallop sink, because the top is rounded and reminds me of a seashell, but I donât know what itâs really called). For some reason, they installed the floor tile around the old sink base. I do have some leftover tile (came with the house), but I doubt it will ever match very well if they just replace the four tiles impacted by the old sink.
Iâve been to Home Depot and Loweâs, so donât need any suggestions from those places. If anyone knows any âout of the wayâ places I might look, please share. Iâm hoping to NOT spend much on this sink.
Thanks in advance.
Have you looked at sinks on Build? There is all sorts of stuff!!
https://www.build.com/signature-hardware-271327/s1486180?uid=3489178
Not saying this one is for you, but dang it is cool! ?
We got our shallow depth powder room sink at Ikea. Lots of options for tighter spaces.
Thanks for the suggestions. I did check out bUild, but didnât even occur tome to look at IKEA.
@Coloradomama Just saw this post, have you decided yet? We did the Miracle method a while ago. It wasnât terribly smelly and it held well for maybe 10 years, but after a while it does start to chip a little. You can repair small chips but eventually we had the same guy come and redo it a few years ago, and I donât think he did as good a job as the first time. So if youâre doing a major bathroom remodel Iâd go with a new bath, to avoid ripping it out a later.
I think we put a Corian countertop from Loweâs when we redid our bathroom and it works perfectly fine.
Update on my balcony curtains - after several weeks of pondering and procrastination, they are finally up! I took @coralbrookâs advice and got structural pipe from Loweâs. I believe it was a 10â piece and they cut it down to the size I wanted. It has screw threads on one end, and they put fresh screw threads on the cut end.
We screwed simple 90 degree elbow joints onto each end and mounted it on sturdy coat hooks. That way, with the elbow joints pointing down on each end, that pipe isnât going anywhere.
The curtains are light and I sewed buttons on to each near a lower corner. Then I attached them to screw eyes with rubber bands. They will still move about in a breeze but they wonât go crazy and they wonât swing back and hit our windows.
These are the curtains: https://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Parasol-Summerland-Key-Sheer-Indoor-Outdoor-Curtain-Panel-52-W-X-108-L/14565488/product.html
Itâs a lovely and breezy space now, and a bit more protected from the afternoon sun.
I love the idea of the button at the bottom to keep your curtains from flapping around. Iâm going to steal that idea. They are lovely
@coralbrook - get big buttons! I just used what I had around and had to change out a few of them today because the rubber band kept slipping off. The new ones are about 1 1/4" diameter.
Quick thought - would Velcro or magnets work for holding down the curtains? Maybe less obtrusive than buttons, rubber bands, and screw hooks? Iâm not sure if they would hold up to San Diego Ocean breezes, though.
I wouldnât try magnets because if the curtain breaks free that magnet could swing into my window and break it. I think something like a clip would work best. Imagine you have a loop that is on your curtain - could be the same color as the curtain, made of cording that you sew onto the edge so not terribly noticeable - then you attach it to something that has a Venus fly trap-like clip, or maybe a binder clip, that is attached to the column or wall.
This has some entertainment value:
[worst home design finds by real estate agents](https://designyoutrust.com/2019/08/real-estate-agent-posts-25-of-the-worst-home-design-finds-by-her-fellow-agents/)
OMG! Canât stop laughing.
Mister really enjoyed the photo of his and her stereo toilets!! 