I apologize for not writing a post last week.  For the last two weekends I have been doing the floor tile in the master bedroom, master bathroom and closet.  It has been extremely slow going due to the tiles being 6 by 36 inches.  Therefore, more than half of them have required cutting to fit.

I am especially pleased with how well the bathroom turned out.

Thankfully, I am almost done with it.  I have an area that is 6 by 16 feet yet to do in the main part of the bedroom.  Otherwise, the rest is complete.

It does look pretty nice, but man what a pain it is to lay!

We also noticed a mistake the builder made when framing the guest bathroom.  Typically, when they frame a bathroom that has a bathtub going across the full width of the room, they put the studs a 1/2 inch wider than the tub.  Then, once the tub is set in place, they put a 1/2 inch lathe on the face of each stud prior to sheetrocking and taping.

In the guest bathroom, they failed to put the lathe up before sheetrocking.  Thus, it left a gap along the back wall of the tub.

Obviously, that would not have worked with wall tile.  So we contacted the builder and they came out and fixed the problem.

Tina had to prime and re-paint the wall.  But otherwise we should be in good shape now.  (Note: I forgot to get a picture of the completed wall before we left.)

Since Tina does not have a lot she can work on until I get the mouldings and start working on the cabinets, she put together a couple of planters for outside.  She has a cactus garden at the rental house that is growing like mad.  So I think we will be moving some of those over in the next few weeks as we come out to work on the house.

Lastly, in the evenings we started putting some shelves together and started to organize my workshop in preparation for building the cabinets.  We still have quite a few tools to mover over from the rental house.  But we are taking those a few at a time as we get the shop organized enough to make space for them.