I’ve been mentioning “bathroom remodel” here a little bit in passing but spared you the month’s worth of back and forth after I realized my plans to upgrade the master bathroom just weren’t going to work (short version: most things would have been a compromise for budget, so I’m just going to wait).
But that doesn’t mean my dad escaped being put to hard labor, oh no–I decided that the hall bathroom could get a new floor and some cosmetic improvements on my budget, so that started yesterday:
I’ll be staining the builder’s grade vanity dark (using this Pinterest tutorial of a thousand Pins) and bought a new countertop to replace the bad fake-granite formica that was there.
Lest you think I’m a badass who can rip out floors, my role is similar to Toby’s here: inspect and be very interested, but hide under the bed during the actual work (not literally, but I didn’t plan to take time off to help Dad, which I now regret). 
And the only reason I can make any of this fit my “budget” is because I am forcing my dad to do hard labor for free. So thanks, Dad. Toby thinks all your work is top-notch and I do too.
July 14, 2015 @ 2:55 pm
PS — use it WET
July 14, 2015 @ 2:55 pm
YAY for DIY!! when you sand between poly coats, use wet-dry 600 grit sand paper. It’s so fine it feels almost like the toilet paper you get in Central America. You could buff your nails on it, but no way is it going to shape the edges. But the magic of it that it smooths the super fine flaws in the first poly coat and makes the second smooth as baby oil on your lover’s skin.