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Dyeing Grout [A Floor Update!]

June 17, 2014 - 27 Comments

Months ago, I think it was the day after the grout guys left and we were feeling a little let down by the results, I ordered grout dye. The grout is the only thing about our floors that we don’t …

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Removing Grout Haze the Easy Way

April 1, 2014 - 35 Comments

Although we showed you the “finished” floors in yesterday’s post, there is one part of the process that we haven’t covered–grout! In my post about Tips for Achieving Realistic Faux Wood Tile, I mentioned that “opting for a grout color a shade …

Chris Loves Julia / Faux Wood Tile: Nordic Brown From The Tile Shop

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Faux Wood Tile: The After Photos!

March 31, 2014 - 32 Comments

We’re so excited to share with you our finished floors today! Replacing almost all of the flooring on our main floor (we opted out of doing our master bath since we’ll be tackling a full renovation in there next year) …

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Tools For Making Tiling More Bearable

March 28, 2014 - 9 Comments

Chris and I just keep looking at each other in disbelief. The floors are done and it is unbelievable!! It has been an incredibly long 6 weeks. While we are so happy we were able to save the thousands of …

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Slow and Steady Lays the Tile

March 24, 2014 - 14 Comments

Y’all wanna know what I’ve been working on lately? Shhh… it’s a secret… Psyche. Not a secret. Everyone knows. Floors. Floors, floors, and more floors. As you can see from the above photo, Saturday we made serious progress in the …

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Tips for Achieving Realistic Faux Wood Tile

March 17, 2014 - 44 Comments

This weekend, with the help of a few friends, we started laying our faux-wood tile floors and made some real progress, extending from the entry into the nursery, half bath and starting in the master bedroom. The process is slow, …

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Tilemageddon and the Point of No Return

March 11, 2014 - 13 Comments

Right now we’re in the “what were we thinking?!” phase with this project. We just started week 4 of what we’re calling “tilemageddon” and we haven’t even started laying tile yet. We finished up laying a second subfloor of OSB …

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A Sneak Peek at the Floors

February 28, 2014 - 21 Comments

It’s been a really hectic week over here. I thought I could get a painting in, but I am glad I didn’t push it. I haven’t been feeling the best (pregnancy-wise) and Greta, Charly and I were stuck in the …

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Snowballing Projects

February 26, 2014 - 12 Comments

Last week, in this comments portion of this post, reader Jacqueline wrote: In a similar vein to your post about painting the ceiling, do you think now would be the time to paint the cabinets too (if you’re planning on …

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Why Particle Board Subfloors Are Bad

February 24, 2014 - 34 Comments

Let me first preface this post by saying, DIYers sometimes get a bad rap. But honestly, sometimes we earn it. We cut corners, we find shortcuts, we think to ourselves “Oh this is good enough. You aren’t going to see this or …

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