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This Week’s Featured Pulp Improvement
Pulp Kitchen
Pulp Bath Reno 2
Last week we were talking about the quick little side projects that you sometimes take on in the middle of doing the larger projects, you know, keeps it interesting! While it took a few hours on multiple days, to be expected with dry times and all, the Pulp Kitchen backsplash job is complete (see adjacent pic). The tile and grout colors really do bring out the best of the surrounding cabinets and stove, and now, we have that most practicable and cleanable wall behind the cooking/prep area. Feeling good!
Back on the Bath Reno 2 project, electric has been run for lights, outlets, bath exhaust fan and heated floor thermostat and it is time to address the plumbing. For this project, we are going with a new soak tub, new two sink vanity, new toilet and a completely rebuilt shower, all of which require some adjusting to the existing plumbing system.
We outlined the new soak tub (also in adjacent pic) and it will need the existing drain moved a few feet over plus has a free standing floor mounted faucet assembly (which needs to sit on a beefed up subfloor) so have those all laid out and pre-piping underway.
The soon to be re-built shower has a pretty unstable water wall that, let’s just say, needs some love. Sub-floor is shot (potential water damage from years ago?) at the water wall so we are cutting it out and replacing it piece by piece. We’ll then add a second water wall tied to the existing to give it some extra strength and provide a little bit more wiggle room to re-route some of the water feeds to floor above, that are unfortunately, extended into shower ceiling (previous owners had built out a false ceiling to cover them, we’re going for full height ceiling). Since it was a fairly large shower we still have plenty of room to work with and that full height (9 foot ceiling) is going to make it feel huge!
Which brings us to the toilet area adjacent to shower. As we were exploring the floor below the shower water wall, we uncovered a fairly unstable sub-floor there as well. In an effort to the incorporate the drains, vents and water feeds (pretty much everything in the room runs through the toilet area) much of the supporting structure had been cut to allow for it all. Oh yeah, and it’s not level. No worries, now is the time to do it right and do it right we will!
The Progress pics below. See you next week!
Pulp Improvements
The 257 Project
Most Recent Pics for Sale
The 1800 Project
Here’s the trailer to the exciting new movie coming out this summer (okay, so maybe not really a movie, more a couple long form video’s to document the start to finish of this project)! Truth is, had a little fun with a movie trailer template they have and this is the “story” of the 1800 Project to date. Enjoy!
Nothing at All
A long time ago, in a small apartment in New York City, I was listening to a Prince song, simply called “7” and I was very much getting into the sound of the guitar playing, and what I perceived as an “open” chord strum, aka, just hitting those strings with no fingers applied (forgive me if that was mistaken). I tried to work that into something, and came up with a riff that I thought was pretty catchy. Not 100% sure what mood I was in at the time but decided that “you don’t need Nothing at All” was a good premise and ran with it. Years later, and also during the pandemic, decided it was a good time to rebuild it. Got busy with my wonderful musician friends and a new version it was.
Hope you enjoy!
The Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach Limited Edition Prints Prints
We recently mentioned that we had been gifted a fine collection of Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach “limited edition” art prints which we intend to eventually sell here from the website (will be setting up a page in our shop collection). Currently doing a complete inventory of what we have and documenting all of that. Wanted to share a little taste of what we are talking about so will feature a pic or two each week until we get that shop page up and running. This week’s sample print below!
Wood Thrush
