Pulp Bath Reno 2

Pulp Tool Closet

I am sore! How did that happen? Well…pretty much spent a few days on my hands and knees doing base wall tile (in between runs up and down stairs to get from the tile saw to the Pulp Bath Reno 2). Yes indeed, we were at that point, final touches on the wall tile install!

With wall tile and especially with an old house and not very level floors, in order to have it all look good, you have to start somewhere with a level line and then work your way up. By doing so, your tile looks great to the eye and everything is nice and level at the top edge (and throughout your tile joints). What does that leave you? It leaves you with tiles at the bottom that need to be cut to fit to whatever that remaining dimension just happens to be, aka, you make up the difference at the base. While you might think this to be quite visible to the eye, it all sort of disappears once you do the grout thing (and ends up looking pretty cool)!

So that’s what we did, along with adding a nice little trim edge at the top of the 4 foot tall tile walls (bull nose tile not available with this particular subway tile we are using, thus the need for a topper). Nearly done on that end and we’ll be starting up the shower wall tile install today. Going with a square 4” x 4” off white ceramic tile (smaller version of what we did for the kitchen backsplash behind the stove).

And, of course, just to break things up a notch, we decided to put the “tool closet” back together. You may recall that we had set up an unused closet on the first floor of the house as a go-to storage space for some of the more common and often used tools that we might need on a day to day basis. Unfortunately, said closet was in pretty bad shape as far as the walls were concerned, peeling/cracked plaster, exposed lath, holes, you know, bad shape! In lieu of re-plastering the closet in its entirety, we just recovered the walls with some quarter inch sheetrock, patched and painted and then got busy with other things! It was now time to put it back together and able to do that we did with some cool hanging storage systems from Container Store and a nice shelving unit from Ikea. Looking good!

Also, with the weather changing for the better, started picking up some furniture for the new Pulp Deck. Much work to do on that to finish, but the goal is to be able to use it now while we get the rest done. Added a couch, a couple rocking chairs, some end tables, single use swinging hammocks (I’ll share some pics at a later date) and a gas fired Ooni Pizza Oven, which is extremely cool and cooks a pizza in a few short minutes!

Some progress pics adjacent and below. See you next week!