Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Before leaving for a Christmas vacation in Las Vegas, I’ve taken the past week to make progress on some ongoing projects and get materials ready for several other winter projects I’m planning on starting in January and February. First, I installed two more bookcases in the library: The end result turned out as well as … Continue reading Winter Flooring Projects + More Library Work
A couple of months ago, I built a new office for my wife. Due to pandemic related shipping delays, there were several items that took a long time to arrive. These included her desk, chair, and window treatments. This past week, all of those arrived and the office is complete. It never ceases to amaze … Continue reading Mary’s Office: Final Touches
After two long weeks of work, the master bathroom remodel is almost done. All that’s left is a new door for the shower, which will take several weeks to be fabricated. Now that the tile is done on both the floor and the shower itself, it’s striking how good it looks! The last touch I … Continue reading Master Bathroom (Almost) Complete
I had to drive up to the lake house this morning to check on things and drop off some decor items from Black Friday shopping, and the weather was beautiful! It’s always cool to get a different view of the water with no leaves on the trees. In addition to the view, it was fun … Continue reading December at the Lake House
After the demolition work was completed, we’ve been cruising along with tiling the master bathroom. Before the tiling could start, PermaBase UltraBacker underlayerment had to go in overtop of the old vinyl on the floor. For the shower, we used the Schluter KERDI-BOARD system to waterproof the shower walls and basin and provide a backing … Continue reading Master Bathroom Tiling
As winter descends on Wisconsin, it was fun to take the new truck out in the first snow of the season! We’ll all be sick of the snow soon enough, but at least for a day it was nice. As anticipated, the truck handled everything really well and actually performed better than the old truck … Continue reading Truck Weather
Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, I was able to get a lot of work done on the new built in bookcases for the library. This first phase was essentially a proof of concept; before I ordered all of the bookcases I wanted to order two to verify fit and also to verify my plan to … Continue reading Initial Library Progress
This week, the final phase of the master bathroom remodel (new floors and the new shower) has kicked off. It’s going to be a several week process, but the first step has been ripping out the existing tile and ripping apart the old shower. Here was the state of the room before starting demolition: And … Continue reading Master Bathroom Demolition
