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That level would have been nice to have when I set my cabinets. Looks good. Are you doing a upper crown and lower valance as well?

 

No crown spec'ed

There is an integral light valence , the doors come to the bottom of it an hide it when they are closed

I'll take a pic .

 

Nice!!! I really like the double lazy susans.

 

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The lazy susan trays on this job are actually wood too , kinda interesting .

 

The Coffered ceiling looks great! I want to put one in my kitchen. Cabinets with drawers are so much more practical.

I plan on removing all my 30" stock cabinets, selling them and building 42" custom cabinets with mostly drawers in the base cabinets sometime in the next couple of years. I'm hoping I can break even selling the cabinets to pay for materials to build the new ones.

Are those ply carcasses or veneered particle board? 1/2" or 3/4"? How are the drawers constructed?

 

Just noticed this thread. Lots of good ideas in here, wish I would've seen it sooner. Bought my first place in May (knowing it was a fixer) and have done a lot more than planned.

On the inside took down all the plaster in the house and while it was studs decided to eliminate a few walls, make new hallway, move/close doors. Quite the learning experience to say the least. So far I've done it with the help of my family. Have only had to pay for drywall taping/texture along with and electrician since the house had 2 electrical panels.

Still not close to finished but here's an idea of the progress so far




Outside when I bought it


And this is what the outside looks like now after having a bobcat tear up all the tree/shrubs and till the yard. Also took down the enclosed patio that was attached and started building a deck across the back of the house.

 

I did two acres once with that machine. It tears the crap out of you. It's fun though.

 

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The beams in the ceiling are actually structural , the main timbers are 8x14 and the cross purlins are 4x10's . There are 2x8 joists framed in between them this is the floor framing system , the span is 24' .

The cabinet boxes are 5/8" laquered birch plywood , the drawers are 1/2" dovetailed maple . Full extension undermount Blum slides with the soft close feature .

 

Haha yeah they do. You learn how to operate them more efficiently the more you use one. I rent one in the spring and aerate all of my clients' yards (10) in about 4 hours. I'm usually worn out by the end of the day. The key is to go in a wide oval pattern similar to a zamboni on an ice rink. Just keep it moving the whole time. The stopping and turning around trying to go in straight lines is what wears you out.

 

Nice! So the drywall is just anchored to the 2x8's then.

Good cabinet construction. Custom made for the space?

 

Well done sir!

 

Yes , drywall is screwed to the 2x8's as a typical ceiling would be done.

The cabinets are semi custom , they are made by Hertco http://hertco.com/

 

Worked on the girlfriend's bathroom all weekend. I didn't get as far as I wanted but I still made decent progress. I was hoping to get all the drywall hung but that'll have to wait until after Christmas.

Chiseled up the tile on the floor. Haha, my girlfriend fell in love with the Hilti rotary hammer. We found some water damage around the toilet so I had to cut up the subfloor and replace that section of subfloor.

I got all the rough electrical done. Wired in 2 receptacles, wired up 2 vanity lights, 3 recessed can lights, and a new fan.

I also got all the walls shimmed out to overlap the tub lip properly. The left side wall had to be shimmed out 1&1/4" so I sistered some 2x3's to the studs. The other walls just needed 1/4" to overlap the tub lip so I just used some lattice strips.

Here's my girlfriend having fun with Sally (the rotary hammer)


Here you can see the slight water damage around the toilet flange. It wasn't really wet anymore and the plywood wasn't totally rotten through which leads me to believe it was either a really slow leak or it happened a while ago.



Here's me pulling it up


Here's the subfloor pulled up.


All patched up with a fresh piece of ply. Fortunately I had a piece large enough leftover in my garage from another project.


Here's me working on the electrical


Recessed cans wired up.


Moved the exhaust fan


Put in a triple gang box. separate switches for cans, vanity, and fan.






Here's the wall shimmed out




Here's the comparison of the floor tile and the wall tile


I guess she had to have a facebook shot haha

 

Worked on the bathroom again yesterday for about 12 hours. I got a decent amount done.

Since I was adding an additional layer of 1/2" subfloor per the recommendations from the guys over on the Johnbridge tile forums, I needed to re-do the toilet flange since it would sit too low. I cut off the 4" riser, added a coupler, and added a longer piece of 4" pipe so the toilet flange will sit higher. Once the finished floor is done, I will cut the riser flush with the floor and install the new closet flange directly on top of the finished tile floor. Once the new plumbing was done, I re-patched the subfloor piece with a new piece of 3/4 ply with the face grain properly oriented. Then I added the new 1/2" ply on top of that.

My girlfriend's dad came over and helped me hang the hardibacker for the tub surround and helped me hang the drywall on the ceiling. I did all the walls by myself. I also planned out where the shampoo niche will sit so it falls within the field tiles properly.



The tub surround tiles will be in a vertical brick pattern. 5 of them fit perfectly across the back wall with no rip cuts needed.


Hardibacker going up, it will be waterproofed with redgard liquid applied membrane


Shampoo niche, just need to add some hardi inside.


Drywall done on the side wall




Here's where the two 30" vanities will sit


My helper


The toilet flange isn't glued in yet so don't freak haha. Just put it there to plug the hole so it doesn't stink.


Here's the triple switch box. Fortunately I was able to re-use some of the existing wiring hence why you see different colors


There will be an additional receptacle (one for each vanity)

 

Looking good

 

Never noticed this thread. Would have put up ongoing basement renos otherwise.

 

nice job that looks really good.

 

Here is my tile i just finished.

Next is the sink and then the shower.

 

Nice

We just did the same pinwheel pattern in slate at my job

 

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Ran into a problem with the vanity top. 48" cabinet. 49" top. I made the wall 49 1/4". Just to be safe. But for some crazy reason I forgot to add in the 1/2" drywall. So i went to put the vanity top on last night and i was about 1/4-3/8" too wide on the top.

So i drew a template on the drywall and cut out the drywall so i could slide the granite back into the wall. Worked ok. I need side splashes to hide the seam now. So after a trip to lowes, i put the side splash on and you can't even tell there was a problem. So i go to put the other side splash on, and I didnt account for side splash height, and my receptacle was too low. Then i had to cut drywall higher, cut the box out of the wall, move it up, patch below just to get the side splash in.

All could have been avoided if i would have just made that stupid wall 1/2" to the right. Lesson learned.