Even though a lot gets done every day… sometimes the progress just doesn’t photograph well. Maybe it just looks the same to me because I see it everyday. The living room, dining room and office have now been finished with a wood-look porcelain tile that we installed with random staggered grout joints. They’ll grout in… Continue reading Day 11-12
I usually start to lose interest when the only guys working are the tile guys, because it seems a bit monotonous and endless… this job is no different. Don’t get me wrong- I love to see the progress and am always amazed at how fast everyone works with a looming deadline over their head. But… Continue reading Day 7- More Installation
So much work goes into the removal and clean up of the old that it is always so exciting once they start actually installing some of the new pretty stuff! The cabinet boxes had to get installed this day so that we could make granite templates on day 6. The granite fabricator is so busy… Continue reading Day 5- Installation
Did you know that as part of the floor preparation, not only do they remove every spec of “mud” with a spatula-like attachment for the Makita jack-hammer, but they also vacuum and then go back and sponge it off by hand. This concrete has never been so clean! They’ll be ready to start laying the tile (pictured… Continue reading Day 4- Demolition
Day 2 was all about removing a sea of travertine, which is the dustiest and nosiest of demolition projects… so I went at the very end of the day to avoid all of that. You can see the Makita that took care of all of the tile, quietly resting on a ledge in the master bathroom.… Continue reading Day 2- Demolition
Stardust showed up at 7am to start removing the cabinets and after three hours, this is what it looked like. Their team of three guys kept chipping away until all of those ugly cabinets came out. The granite backsplash that was there made it virtually impossible to get the upper cabinets out, so they had… Continue reading Day 1- Demolition
Design Elements Dissected 