For the past few years we’ve needed to do something about our shower floor tile. The marble was in good shape, but the grout was terrible; I’d had three contractors come and look at repairing/replacing the grout and they all said I need to redo the whole shower floor. That was last year and I felt defeated, but this year, I was renewed, I was determined! I was also sick of looking at the nasty shower floor.
Finally, I contacted a tile guy via Thumbtack. We liked him, we liked is price, we liked his reviews and it was scheduled. I found some lovely floor tile that coordinated with the shower walls and bathroom floor and he came back a few weeks later to prep the floor with a primer.
The day he started the work, I’d kept the Frenchies at the back of the house behind a baby gate while he primed the floor; he would come back the next day to lay the tile. When he finished the primer and departed, I’d let the girls out and they were happy to have access to the whole house again.
Picture me at the countertop on my laptop after I’d set the dogs free, just Lolly dolling away, when I’d realized what I’d just done: I had NOT shut our bathroom door.
THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS
The Frenchies were drawn to the wet primer like flies to sh*t. In a matter of minutes, they tramped it all over the bathroom floor and that stuff dried fast! I got most of it up, but not all. And I was able to get most off their paws, but I did initiate a run/play party on the driveway to get more primer off their pads with concrete as a helper.
(we’re having our marble floors polished and sealed in June, which was needed anyway!)
Before and After:
We’re thrilled with the result!
GET OUT OF INTO THE CLOSET
When we did our big remodel in 2016, the way the interior/exterior walls were adjusted, we decided to close-in a previous angled, sliding glass door in our bedroom. For a few years, we had a lovely wardrobe/pie cabinet in the weird shaped spot, but it just wasn’t right and we eventually took the pie cabinet to Georgia where it resides in our master bathroom.
We decided to make this odd corner into a closet, but finding closet doors for it was a challenge.
It’s an odd shape/size and sliding doors would never have worked. SO, it sat there like a weird relative, staring at us for four years. (Coach’s boots and ball caps slowly took over the corner)
Late last year, I finally bit the bullet and said to the Coach: I found a place that makes custom bifold/barn doors, they’re super expensive, but we’ve got to do something. Bonus: They’re made in the USA!
It took a few months for them to arrive and when they did, that was a whole ‘nother issue. The doors were shipped by JB Hunt in an eighteen wheeler, in custom made crates. They weighed SIX HUNDRED pounds with the crates. I couldn’t have them delivered to the house because I don’t currently keep a warehouse forklift here to be able to pick up the crates from the eighteen wheeler at my driveway gate. I was perplexed when the shippers called me, explaining the logistics, then my husband reminded me that we have forklifts and many men working at our factory, so I had the doors delivered there. How do I forget these things? Our guys were able to bring them to our house from the shop and we had one of our Install Guru’s put them up for us.
Here’s the progress from beginning to end. Mind you, that open cavern with boots/hats/boxes stacked up? We looked at that for at least four years.
We moved a lot of Coach’s stuff in there, so now our regular master closet is not so jam packed.
Please don’t unfriend me, ’cause I feel like I’m being overly braggadocios with all my updates; but, I don’t think I’m the only one who gets a high when their To Do List has more checked-off marks, than unchecked.
Who uses the TTFN phrase from Tiger? It’s one of my faves.
I don’t want anyone to worry and call the Popo Lolo looking for me, because I’ll be mostly MIA in the next few weeks.
Don’t miss me too much and happy Mother’s Day!
XO
Busy Bee Suz 