More floors, master tile

Nothing too exciting, just some more flooring in the hallway yesterday. We are ready to start flooring into the other bedrooms, but we are quickly running out of room to store everything. At this point we are constantly moving things around in all the rooms. The master bath tile was also started yesterday. We found out our tile saw didn't fit our big 12x24 tiles so we had to buy a newer (and way better) tile saw. More on that later today.

Details details

Laying the bullnose for the stairwell took me two solid nights this week. I tried to keep the joints as tight as I could so I'm hoping they stay like this forever. This weekend we are going to start tiling the master bath. The fun times just keep coming!

One job I'm glad to be done with

This was not my favorite job on this project so far, but the shower pan is finished and ready for tile (after the mud pan cures). We used a product called Goof Proof to create the correct pitch on the floor and curbs that are nice and square. It was a lot of hard work, though. Just mixing the 4 batches of dry pack mix (60lb bags of sand with about 12 pounds of cement) was hard enough, but you had to constantly smooth and stamp the mixture into the forms to compress it. From start to finish it was about 2.5 hours of work. It was quite tiring! Next time I think we will spend the extra money for a custom tile-ready shower pan made out of plastic or maybe use one of the Kerdi products that don't require a mud pan. Doing the pan this way may save a couple hundred dollars, but it's a huge process over several days and is very messy.

We also figured out how we're going to floor around the stairwell opening and the stair treads. I should be able to finish up most of the hardwood in the hallway this coming week. Next weekend I think we'll be making some good progress on the master bath tile.

I've got something in my pocket

Just another weekday night here...spent building a wall and installing a pocket door.  Our master bath tile arrived today so we were feeling motivated to get the pocket door for the water closet built since we can't lay the floor tile until that wall is finished.  So, a few 2 x 4s, one pocket door kit, an interior door slab, and a lot of nails later, we have a wall and a door!  Next we'll add drywall and then we'll be ready to move forward with the tile.  Every day gets us a little bit closer to moving upstairs and into the master suite...

Door... Door... Door...... TRIM

We made some good progress on the master bedroom today. First we had to get the delivery from yesterday upstairs so we took advantage of our friend Sobek's offer to help. After a couple hours everything was staged for today and we also finally got the washer/dryer moved from the first floor.

Today we installed a few doors (3 of them in fact)... no handles so they don't shut, but at least they look nice. The doors we bought are Jeld-Wen molded in the Craftsman III style. Most of the bedroom is now trimmed out. The trim work is a bit tedious, but it really changes the way the room looks. It also makes the paint not look as dark. There's a few more pieces of trim to finish up and then lots and lots of finish painting.

Another delivery?

Yes... Another delivery. This time it was our interior doors and base trim. While I was waiting for help to move the doors inside I sprayed all the base trim with a coat of finish paint. Tomorrow we should get some doors installed and then we can knock out the rest of the trim in the master.

Master bath tile

We finally settled on our master bath tile. The order was placed last night so all we need now are matching tile for the shower floor and a paint color. I think this was the last big purchase we need to finish the entire upstairs. Hopefully in a month we will be living in our new space. I don't remember the names of the colors we picked exactly, but it's Daltile in a light grey for the floor and a beige for the wall... How it took us 2 months to pick these basic colors is another story.