Here is a backsplash I installed Friday
Started on a sheetrock wall, I sealed the edges with silicone
Starting the customers design
Pulled the plugs out to the front edge of the tile
Grouted it with white pre-mixed grout. About a 5 hour process
from start to finish.
(Now we hope they paint the cabinets!)
Happy Backsplashing!
Here’s a project we worked on a few weeks ago.
We set up at night to build new stall doors in the bathrooms,
semi-rustic (whatever that means) but this is what the design
came out looking like…
I decided that using outdoor privacy fence gate hardware would fit
best with the design.
We painted them later with the restaurant colors, it seemed to fit well
with restaurant style.
Happy Privacy!
A rental property left vacant for just a few weeks….
This is pictures I took under the dishwasher.
All the plastic pipes under the dishwasher had been chewed on.
But it even got worse!!
The back of the pump housing was plastic as well, and it had been chewed through in multiple places…the dishwasher was a total loss.
The moral to the story is: rodents and pests can do costly damage even when no one is around and it looks as though everything is cleaned up. It’s good to have good repellent set about when a house is going to be vacant for a while. Just the fact that rodents like to come in out of the cold, and must eat to survive, should warn us to keep repellent out to avoid this type of costly disaster.
Happy Hunting!
Here’s some ideas from a closet we built.
(Click on a picture to enlarge it)
We used 3/4 inch MDF board only. We cut it down for bracing, trim, shelves…pretty much everything except the hanging rods was made out of MDF board
The biggest challenge was extremely small closet space. We had to get creative to make everything fit. (Plus there was a designer working on this job, that’s where the “creative” came in!)
Instead of over-cramming stuff, I built a box in the corner and left it empty, dead space. We only lost that 12″ x 12″ very hard to reach corner.
We took over the garage for a couple days and used it as a shop…
Here is a finished view before the painters came in…
The shelves on the left are for normal shoes and high-heels. In the top picture, you can see the shelves on the right that were spaced differently for taller shoes and boots.
The open spaces in the middle are for various length hanging clothes.
The man’s side was similar, but all shelves were custom placed so you could use them from everything from tennis shoes to boots to work boots.
We like to visit Ikea and other large home improvement and furniture stores to get ideas on different styles. It’s so much better to see it in person and see what works BEFORE you pay someone to build it!
We have even had a client that had cut-out cardboard so they could visualize the size of the shelves better! A great idea!
Happy Closet Building!
