Flooring Project

As of September 17 we will have lived here 6 months. We have a few small bathroom projects to do yet but the last few months since the bathroom we have worked on flooring. We ended up with a laminate from lumber liquidators, or liquid lumberdators as I kept calling it for some reason, it is a click and lock system that can float and the underlayment is already attached. Anyone that has researched flooring knows there is literally thousands of options we had to weight expense with ease of install and other options also. This picture is a before of the kitchen and portion of the dinning area.

Future guest bedroom upstairs. Was once refered to as the" Ron Burgundy" room because of the color. Lisa has since repainted. I wanted to leave a little Burgundy just to keep the name. I was vetoed.

Guest room two or a den.

Area in front of fireplace area where we are going to lay slate tile.


This thing is ugly but sure heats up nice. Eventually will hopefully be replaced by an insert with a nice viewing area that will heat the house and be able to view the fire.

Durorock tile membrane. Saved me the trouble of laying hardibacker. a little more expensive but saved me a ton of time and effort. Cuts with scissors and lays with and adhesive. Kinda messy to rip up when you screw up your line and get way offtrack like I did.


Laying tile. The blue door is now sanded completely down but we are going to need to replace it anyway. Someday I tell you that story. Lisa sanding until 3 in the morning.


I open the front door one morning to let the dogs out, they immediately came back in the house and turned looking outside. I felt this to be unusual behavior for my dogs so I went out looked left and this guy was of to the side of our deck. Unfortunately by the time I got the camera he had walked away.

Laying laminate flooring. With my helper Kipp in the background.

Using the edge of my deck railing as my saw horse to rip the laminate lengthwise.



Dining room area. I installed a new baseboard heater in the back since and we are saving all the trim work until the end. Yepp it is only middle September but I had to get the heaters in because it already gets down to high 30's low 40's at night. We have already started burning wood in the stove in the above pic.


Kitchen area the foreground is our area rug red plush rug from target'.
Looking the opposite way into the living room. We cover the couchs with sheets to keep dog hair off. Dark brown couches Tan dogs.



This is the Ron Burgandy room We did one accent wall in a different shade of red. Juno did his best to help us paint. No animals were harmed in this renovation project.

Before and after of this area with our new railing from TJ Wood Products in Bailey, CO. Still needs a coat of stain on it but we are going to use a clear coat.

To be continued.....

Bathroom Project

This was our first major poject. Took off work for a week hopeing to finish it, three months later almost done. Special thanks to Lisa's dad for all his help without him we would never have got this done, and to everyone that had to listen to me complain about nothing going right and freaking out and throwing my grout bag and cursing. Thanks sweety.

This is the before shot. Not bad looking we didn't care for the colors, paint or tile. Not for this bathroom at least, but we knew that the white panel along back of the shower stall was put there for a reason. You could tell it was fit in there after the fact to hide something or to temporally rig something till someone got the chance to remodel. Well now is the chance.

Lisa's dad did this one for us it was out of my abilities. He replaced the whole shower rough with a new one.

Cleaning out the old shower drain we came across this. Disadvantage of buying a foreclosed house, they are often not cleaned well before moving in.

We know nastiness awaits us behind that white panel in the shower.

We have removed this stuff since,but there it all sat on the deck for months.
Yep removing the old toilet and taking it to the deck. I should have recycled it and used it as a planter.

So after removing that white panel on the back wall of the shower we found tile and rotted drywall that just crumbled out. I believe some mold also. Nasty.

Long story. In a nut shell we did not have hot water for about 2 months after moving in. Several reasons. So we would boil water and wash with a wash cloth in the claw foot tub.It's all part of the adventure.

Replaced a lot of drywall with the Durorock cement board. Hopefully won't rot like the other stuff did .

Spacers used to keep the spaces even.Even the spacers couldn't help me keep the space even.
New light fixture.

It still amazes me how this keeps the poop in the chute.

These are ceramic tiles, they look like hardwood planks though.

Our new Dual flush water saving toilet. Hit one button for number 1 and both buttons for number 2.

My father in law also helped replace the window in the shower. It was cracked and old probably the original window. Unfortunatley every window in this house will need to be replaced over time.

We decided on a contemporary vessel sink bowl.

New shower head and all.

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Our Mountain Home!

This ceramic cat was left behind to watch over the house. I hope its good luck.

We are going to convert this room to the master bedroom. Unfortunately this wood burning stove is so far out of code we will eventually need to replace it