Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
When the master bathroom remodel was wrapped up in December, there was one remaining task that I didn’t get around to completing until recently: replacing the cabinet in the powder room that covered the shower’s complex plumbing. With the previous steam shower, the steam apparatus was pretty short and was covered by an oak cabinet … Continue reading Powder Room Plumbing Cabinet
After the drywall repair that was done in mid-January, I repainted the walls and put all of the rooms back together, which was one of the last steps before all of my winter flooring work could begin. After that, I worked to get everything cleared out for the new flooring. Most of this simply involved … Continue reading Repaired Drywall Painting + Final Floor Prep
Prior to the next round of flooring installation, I had various parts of the house (and especially the guest house) that needed to have drywall repaired. In the main house, there was a piece of drywall that had been damaged near the bar, and in the sunroom a corner near the ceiling had sustained water … Continue reading Drywall Repair
After two previous rounds of installing built-in bookcases in the library, I spent the past several weeks installing and building the remaining bookcases. This installation was the most complicated, since it involved 5 bookcases and I’d need to do some framing work to make the wall they were anchoring to a flat surface due to … Continue reading Final Library Bookcase Installation
At long last, the new shower door has finally arrived and was installed today by Monroe Glass. It looks great, and completes the master bathroom remodel. It’s going to take 24 hours for the calk to set, but once that’s done I’m looking forward to taking it for a spin! Continue reading New Shower Door
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
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
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
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
