Month: April 2026

Our contractor discovered today that a magnet will stick to the soapstone we’re using in a couple places in our bathroom! How cool is that?? Here, in addition to a bit of paper held down by a magnet, you’re also getting a preview of the floor tiles inside & outside of our new shower.

First across the finish line in the remodel of our two bathrooms is: the floor in the green bathroom. There are visible components that have been in place longer (like the tub), but this floor is the first to be in its final, finished form.

Our contractor for the bathrooms project is an obsessive detail freak when it comes to tiles. Which is exactly who you want to do your tiling. These clips & wedges are a good way to make sure the tiles are all exactly even with one another at the edges. But I think most guys would not use nearly this many.

It’s tile time! Here’s a trial layout for our shower floor.

Cherry trees on Cherry Street. When I went by in the other direction this morning, these weren’t blooming yet.

Some might say dove grey is a boring choice of paint color, but we think it’ll be great for the inside of our new closet.

Our ornamental cherry tree is not reliable — some years it decides to spend a bunch of its blooms in late fall. But when it waits for spring, it’s spectactular.

Two window posts in a row! Such is progress in these things. This window in the Green Bathroom is moving to the right, but is delayed: the building inspector is requiring tempered glass so it had to be reordered. But we need to make progress. So the opening is rough framed to allow drywall to proceed. And the outside is being left alone for now because we’re having Second March here in April and it’s cold out.

Aside from a usable (leaning toward luxurious) shower, the change I am most looking forward to in our new primary-suite bathroom is a window for some fresh air and natural light. The guys did the rough framing for it today and I’m unreasonably happy to see it.