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While researching the question of what to use in the kitchen — cork, sealed concrete, vinyl, tile, etc — I kept coming back to cork as a warm comfortable standing surface. (With the added benefit, unlike concrete or tile, that things falling on it wouldn’t chip the floor nor automatically break the object, err, depending [...]

I need a progress meter for House Deconstruction, since I built (and unbuilt, and rebuilt, because I are teh suck sometimes) the first set of shelves for the kitchen/dining room wall. Okay, it took me about two hours to carefully sketch, erase, and resketch until satisfied and then I built the shelves. Hell, I even [...]

It took most of yesterday and a lot of last night and too much of today, but the cooking wall, sink area, and counter-splash are all tiled and currently being sealed prior to grouting. I have enough adhesive, grout, and ceramic foyer tiles (a ceramic version of the rich-colored slate CP requested for the bathroom, [...]

poured first layer of concrete last night, and had enough left to complete the kitchen floor, and do half the foyer. countertop is looking closer to done, and my entire body aches.
even using drill-attachment mixer to make that part faster, the rest — pouring and spreading concrete — is hard on the body. ow, ow, [...]

Not quite yet, though. New sink arrived, which meant the sit-around-being-lazy time was over, and I spent yesterday and today being all productive. Half the countertop is in (must go to lumberyard tomorrow for more plywood, grrr, I go through that stuff fast), and the sink cutout is complete along with the support for the [...]

This entire post is mostly to organize my thoughts, make something I can come back to, refresh my memory so I don’t forget — again. That book I got in college from a friend should’ve had a theme not of, “oh, the places you’ll go,” but “the places you’ll redo.”
Things left undone, by room.

I may not be able to do math in my head, but I still enjoy doing it — there’s something satisfying about writing out the calculations, however inconsequential, and seeing numbers add up just so. It feels like organizing the world…assuming I’m doing it right, that is. Right now, I’m at about 3/4ths of teh [...]

First, I think it must be the tape measure. Really. I measured the distance from fridge shelf to ceiling at least three times, and was reasonably satisfied that two 30″ high cabinets would come no closer than 4″ to the ceiling, enough room for a strip of drywall, the moulding, blah blah blah.
Err, NO.
Stupid 30″, [...]