Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
After mudding, sanding, and sealing the drywall, it was time to texture and paint it. For the back wall of the garage, I used a spray texture in addition to the usual spackling, which makes it a little more resilient to dust and other garage dirt. I used Homax pro grade orange peel wall texture. … Continue reading Painting the Guest House Bathroom, Utility Room, and Garage
I’ve been traveling to a variety of warm destinations over the past three weeks, so I have not had a lot of time to work on my home improvement projects. Now that I am back, I spent time this weekend finishing mudding and sanding the drywall, so that it is now ready for sealing, spackling, … Continue reading Finishing the Drywall
I am continuing to make progress drywalling the guest house bathroom and utility room. All of the mudding has been completed, with the exception of a few interior corners, which will be wrapped up this weekend. Today, I continued mudding corners. The walls are really starting to come together! Continue reading Mudding Progress
This past weekend, I cut and hung all of the drywall for my bathroom and utility room project. Cutting all the drywall was made easier by using a new DeWalt jigsaw that I got for myself as a birthday present. It is cordless, which means no more tangled cords around the big 8×4 sheets of … Continue reading Hanging Drywall
Now that I’m ready to start drywalling the guest house bathroom and utility room, I had to buy and haul all of the requisite drywall. It was a cold 7 degree day in Wisconsin, but I rented a UHaul trailer and hauled about 30 sheets of 8×4 drywall. I unloaded everything in the guest house … Continue reading Hauling Drywall
One final task before starting to drywall the new bathroom and utility room was to install and plumb the shower. The shower kit I purchased had half inch threaded fixture attachments, to which I attached half inch shark bite connectors. The rest of the plumbing was fairly simple. On the other side, I drilled holes … Continue reading Guest House Shower
One small task prior to drywalling the new bathroom that needs to be done is installing hardware in the bathroom and utility room doors, and installing door trim. I used a dark oiled bronze door handle, which was very simple to install. Continue reading Guest House Bathroom Door Hardware
After the interior framing and electrical work was done, it was time to finish the plumbing by running hot and cold water lines through the interior walls for the shower, toilet, and sink. I drilled holes through the studs, and downsized the pipes from 3/4″ to 1/2″, and mapped out where the pipes would run: … Continue reading Finishing Guest House Bathroom Plumbing
Several weeks ago, I completed the first phase of the guest house electrical work, which involved wiring overhead lights, a bathroom fan, and several outlets and switches on the outer wall that already existed in the guest house garage. The second phase was a little bit more complicated, since I had to install a GFCI … Continue reading Guest House Bathroom Electrical: Part 2
The guest house bathroom and utility room project is really starting to take shape now. First, I finished all of the framing work, which included three large interior walls plus a smaller side wall to bolster the shower. After that, I installed the shower walls. They were “glue up” walls, meaning that they were flexible … Continue reading Finished Framing + Utility Room Door + Shower
