The Project - Week 13: Playing Hookey

This week we took a few days off! At the time it felt great, but both my hubby and I were disappointed that we didn't get more accomplished. However, maybe that break will provide the inspiration to move forward...and work harder and faster!

As I write that, a Daft Punk song comes to mind (OK, not my usual music... but baby son introduced me to it!) I had to share this creative video (oh, and yeah, what I wouldn't give to have either one of those bodies!) The intro is boring, as far as a visual goes, but it's clever once the song gets going!



If you prefer to see a male hunk version...click here!


This week we:

• Tiled the tub deck and half of the tub front. I sealed the tile, so we can now connect the tub's plumbing and finally finish the front and the back splash.
• Began to focus on the shower. We received the shower column. This has spray nozzles, a hand held shower and a 'rain head'. The unique thing about this set-up is that we can have all of the nifty features of an upscale shower without having to plumb each water source. I also put in the bottom row of tiles. Now I can build on those as we continue to tile. We bought the shower doors and discovered that we needed to extend a wall in order to install them correctly. The previous doors were Jerry-rigged and we decided not to follow the previous installers lousy solution.
• Picked out our granite slabs for the kitchen. The granite has been fabricated and will be installed at the end of the month.
• Picked out the tile we are going to use as the back splash in the kitchen and more-or-less settled on the pattern we intend to use.
• Returned our extra lumber to Lumber Liquidators. Since it has been over 30 days we can only get store credit. So, exactly how long will $287 in floor cleaner last???
• Went to the draft horse auction. We didn't buy a draft horse! We didn't buy a cart! We did leave with 3 bird houses and some 'Christmas Crap' that I successfully bid on.... One large carton for $15.00!!
• Bought two more trees...arrghhh!! One of the 'big box' stores had evergreens at an irresistible price.
• Leveled the knee wall in the kitchen so the granite will 'fit'.

Shower Column

Tile in progress - it should be finished next week after we connect the tub to the plumbing.