This project has been complete for a while, but I thought I’d post some of the pictures showing the transformation from a den to a kitchen for this downstairs apartment. To separate the living areas and make room for the kitchen, we would need to remove the stairs and close up this wall. This would [...] Read More

We’re on the edge of finishing our apartment conversion project. One last detail was to replace the light fixture in the tile shower. Sounds easy enough, right?  One problem,  I started to remove the globe and realized that it was full of water!??? That was the first clue. So, I quickly made sure that the [...] Read More

Tiling a countertop may involve a little more creativity than a typical tile floor. Mostly, this is because there are more specialized tile pieces involved to make it all work. Like any tile job, it takes some careful planning ahead of time. (See this post from yesterday for how to prepare the counterop for tile) [...] Read More

I’ve been making progress on our apartment conversion project this week and decided that it might be fun to do a tile countertop for the bathroom vanity. Part of my decision was based on the fact that our vanity is an unusual size and stock countertops would not fit it. Hey, why not? I’ll divide [...] Read More

I’ve been laying tile the past couple of days in our bathroom and kitchen of the apartment we’re adding to our home. The bathroom had quite a few interesting pieces to cut, but this was the most interesting: This piece fits around the base of an older vanity that will get a complete makeover after [...] Read More