This Damn House

I took a bit of a hiatus (3 months!) from blogging. Er...did anyone notice?

My excuses are a variety of personal and medical issues which slowed down progress on The Project, and a broken camera which interfered with project documentation. Plus about a month ago I noticed that I needed to have our house on the market, like, yesterday, and a general state of complete and utter panic overtook me.

The panic has helped motivated me to do a ton of little but much needed tasks...painting hallways, packing up excess furniture, etc.

But what I needed to kick my butt back into blogging gear was a major project to post about.

So, for your reading pleasure, I spent the better part of the last three days re-tiling our main bathroom. This involved detaching and removing the toilet and vanity, tearing out the existing tile, ripping up the water-damaged sub-floor, laying new cement back-board sub-floor, and the tiling itself.

I have a whole host of new "how not to"s to post soon. In the meantime, here is the bathroom we've been living with for the past 3 months. Note in particular the lovely duct-taped plastic sheeting:

Now we are living with this. Note in particular the lovely tile on top of which there's no toilet or sink. Form over function, baby, form over function: