Putting it back together again...

Dad, Colleen, and a nice neighbor worked to get the plywood on the counters and cut the tile. I came a few days later to help do the back splash and grout. I really like working with the glass tiles. They are very simple to cut and put up.

On to grout...

They look really good. Colleen has been working really hard to make everything look good. She painted the kitchen a very pale celery green and the cabinets white. The counters are a coppery color and really look nice.


Then, on to the bathroom in the hall. The walls next to the tub had rotted from so many years of water, same with the baseboards. So Colleen and dad and I ripped out the baseboards, patched the walls, and put up some tile to protect the walls.


It was so rotted, you could mostly just pull out the plaster and old drywall by hand.

Then the patch job. It was tricky because most of the drywall behind the bath tile had rotted and fallen out. The only thing holding the tile together was the glue and grout! Dad had to try and put cement board behind the tile. It was tricky, but he and Colleen figured it out!

Then the easy part, the tile.

The glass tile looks really good! It will be a huge improvement over the warped and moldy wall.


It's coming along, but there's a lot of work still to go. Once the kitchen is finished it will be a lot easier for them to live and do small parts at a time. It's just so hard to wait when you just want to get everything done right now!

This Saturday will be a big Jones clean up of the yard and outside of the house.