Home Reno 3.7

It's been a while since I wrote a blog on the renos, it's because the end of John's week didn't produce a lot of picturable results, so I never feel like blogging unless I have some sort of progress I can show.  Fortunately we have been busy this past week and a bit, so I have lots to update on.

First, John grouted the tiles last Saturday, which we rigorously cleaned three times every 15 minutes to get all the excess off and then let dry.  It really made them look complete!

Unfortunately, the rest of the main floor turned into a disaster zone, as John had to move everything he needed (or things that where just in the way) into the living and hallway.  We cleaned it up on Sunday after picking 12L of strawberries!! (We got sidetracked from the work that needed to be done :) )

Not as bad as Wednesday, but still
bad enough!

This is missing 2L, which I left out for us to eat.  This sink
full has since been frozen. 

During this past week, we sprayed the tiles down with a grout and tile sealer.  We had to wait until Wednesday for the grout to set, but after spraying them down twice, they are all finished.

Yesterday was a pretty productive day.   John ripped off all the trim (as he got mortar all over them) before breakfast.  After breakfast we put the first coat of the varathane on the shoe shelf and then made a run to Home Depot to pick up new trim and a couple of things we needed.  I'm pretty sure the staff there know us all by name...

Once we got back, I got set up to iron the veneer onto the bench and did the second coat of varathane on the shoe shelf, while John cut and put the trim on the bench and in the entrance.  

I forgot to take pictures of what we did today, but we made another trip to Home Depot and then came home and finished staining the bench and cut the rug up for the shelves for the shoe shelf and brought it inside.  John was going to caulk, but decided he wanted to rest instead, which was fine by me! He did, however, put one coat of varathane on the bench later on in the day, so one more coat and it will be brought inside!  The end in sight!  Until next time...