Restoring our clawfoot bathtub

I (Amy) have always been excited that our house came with it’s original clawfoot bathtub..even though it was in pretty rough shape. The development of the downstairs bathroom has been a very long-term project. When we purchased the house (before doing any rehab work or making any messes) it looked like this. Before demolishing this…

Medicine Cabinet Restoration

Now that we are essentially done with the 2nd floor (a post on the completed master bedroom will come soon), it’s time to turn our attention back to actual rehab work.  One of the pleasant aspects of working on the 2nd floor was that much of it was working from nothing, instead of undoing old work…

Upstairs Bathroom is FINISHED!

For more than 100 years the 2nd floor of our house was mostly a very large attic.  The master bedroom was the only finished room upstairs and it was accessed by a narrow, steep staircase.  The odd spaces and angled ceilings made it a little tricky, but we were able to devise a floor plan that…

Stuck at 90%

The upstairs bathroom has been 90% done for more than a year.  90% is a dangerous place to be.  It’s just enough to be fully functional, which means the sense of urgency to finish it is extremely low, but it still lacks all the finished details.  There are only a few rooms in the house…