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Highlands John

Highlands John

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Started thinking about bathrooms changes for this winter, today. getting excited about the thought.
You may remember we refurbished one of our rooms last winter and it's been a big hit with the guests. We put the price up of that room and it's had no effect on occupancy, in fact most of the time when both the cheaper and more expensive doubles have been available people chose the more expensive, so we're starting to think about the next room.
Want to go and look at bathroom showrooms, but a bit early for that, but looking to book and electrician.
 
That's my kind of winter! Sounds like fun, looking, planning, doing it, and admiring the result!
 
I wouldn't use Victoria Plumb - my plumber says its expensive cheap rubbish
 
Us, too. Got my notebook out...2 bathrooms will get new vanities, all of them will get new faucets. The wallpaper is coming down in 3 more rooms and I'm painting all of the dressers. They are getting beat up the way they are and paint is easier to repair or just paint over.
I'm going to try spray painting the 80's style brass light fixtures so they are more matte finish and bronze. Can do that outside before it gets too cold.
1 room is getting a king bed.
Another room is getting a fireplace.
 
Wow Maddie! So much for "the slow slide into obscurity". Instead, you're upping your game! Good for you!
 
I am going to spend the winter plotting, planning, and pricing removing my hedges and replacing with a wrought iron-look fence. It is time to spruce up the exterior here. High school kids will be hired in the spring to paint my porch trim (everything else is siding). Once I get the pricing, i can work out the how to pay for it.
I am also hoping to get rid of my cash crop with this effort - poison ivy!
 
We're considering pulling the carpet out of the cottage and replacing with fake (commercial grade which we have in our quarters) wood floors, then remove wall paper in kitchen & living room, paint, then replace the wainscot in the bathroom area with vinyl wainscot which is pretty new on the market here. We used the vinyl in one of our other rooms and it looks terrific and can stand up to the moisture of the bath area.
This is the same room we sunk $10,000 into 7 years ago and it still needs this additional work. It's a money suck. Fortunately this time it's mostly our labor which will make a difference.
 
Since the B+B suites have been getting all the attention and painting over the last 15 years, I will be focusing on pulling the wallpaper off our bedroom and giving it a fresh new look....new paint, bedding, rugs etc. And it's time to have the hard wood floors in the kitchen screened and recoated.
If I have any time and energy left by March I'll paint some of the woodwork in the cottage and re-coat the clay tiles in the bath and kitchen area. Other than that, we are in good shape. Oh, possibly we will replace the toilet in the cottage with one that has an insulated tank, or, if is less expensive, re-plumb it with a mixing valve so the tank does not act like a condenser all summer long, dripping water on the floor and mildewing up the wainscoting.
 
Silverspoon said:
Since the B+B suites have been getting all the attention and painting over the last 15 years, I will be focusing on pulling the wallpaper off our bedroom and giving it a fresh new look....new paint, bedding, rugs etc. And it's time to have the hard wood floors in the kitchen screened and recoated.
If I have any time and energy left by March I'll paint some of the woodwork in the cottage and re-coat the clay tiles in the bath and kitchen area. Other than that, we are in good shape. Oh, possibly we will replace the toilet in the cottage with one that has an insulated tank, or, if is less expensive, re-plumb it with a mixing valve so the tank does not act like a condenser all summer long, dripping water on the floor and mildewing up the wainscoting..
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We have the same problem with our cottage toilet. You get the cold water in the tank and all the hot steamy air from the big jacuzzi and it just drips off. Of course this wouldn't happen if the guests would actually use the vent fans. Nope, they'll complain that there must be a leak in the toilet or valve.
 
Arkansawyer said:
Since when did our Diva become a Divo?.
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Arkansawyer said:
Since when did our Diva become a Divo?
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Speaking of Il Divo,...they are coming out with a Broadway hits cd soon...
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and playing Broadway in Nov
 
Breakfast Diva said:
We're considering pulling the carpet out of the cottage and replacing with fake (commercial grade which we have in our quarters) wood floors, then remove wall paper in kitchen & living room, paint, then replace the wainscot in the bathroom area with vinyl wainscot which is pretty new on the market here. We used the vinyl in one of our other rooms and it looks terrific and can stand up to the moisture of the bath area.
This is the same room we sunk $10,000 into 7 years ago and it still needs this additional work. It's a money suck. Fortunately this time it's mostly our labor which will make a difference..
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have you thought about that stuff that looks like wood but is actually lino? comes in pieces like a plank of wood size - might be better for bathrooms and then you could have it all the way through - my neighbour has it looks excellent and has a life time guarantee!
 
Breakfast Divo said:
Silverspoon said:
Since the B+B suites have been getting all the attention and painting over the last 15 years, I will be focusing on pulling the wallpaper off our bedroom and giving it a fresh new look....new paint, bedding, rugs etc. And it's time to have the hard wood floors in the kitchen screened and recoated.
If I have any time and energy left by March I'll paint some of the woodwork in the cottage and re-coat the clay tiles in the bath and kitchen area. Other than that, we are in good shape. Oh, possibly we will replace the toilet in the cottage with one that has an insulated tank, or, if is less expensive, re-plumb it with a mixing valve so the tank does not act like a condenser all summer long, dripping water on the floor and mildewing up the wainscoting..
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We have the same problem with our cottage toilet. You get the cold water in the tank and all the hot steamy air from the big jacuzzi and it just drips off. Of course this wouldn't happen if the guests would actually use the vent fans. Nope, they'll complain that there must be a leak in the toilet or valve.
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our bathroom fan turns on when the light is switched on..no choice.
 
[email protected] said:
Breakfast Diva said:
We're considering pulling the carpet out of the cottage and replacing with fake (commercial grade which we have in our quarters) wood floors, then remove wall paper in kitchen & living room, paint, then replace the wainscot in the bathroom area with vinyl wainscot which is pretty new on the market here. We used the vinyl in one of our other rooms and it looks terrific and can stand up to the moisture of the bath area.
This is the same room we sunk $10,000 into 7 years ago and it still needs this additional work. It's a money suck. Fortunately this time it's mostly our labor which will make a difference..
Click to expand...
have you thought about that stuff that looks like wood but is actually lino? comes in pieces like a plank of wood size - might be better for bathrooms and then you could have it all the way through - my neighbour has it looks excellent and has a life time guarantee!
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We might be talking about the same product. Here is what we put in another room and it looks great. Vinyl wainscot
Here's what the room looked like after we put it in:
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Arkansawyer said:
Wow Maddie! So much for "the slow slide into obscurity". Instead, you're upping your game! Good for you!.
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Arkansawyer said:
Wow Maddie! So much for "the slow slide into obscurity". Instead, you're upping your game! Good for you!
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Right. But it still won't be the glass & chrome ultra mod that some people think it should be in spite of the photos showing otherwise. ;-)
We have been slowly taking apart the house over the years, fixing what we can. We have never stopped that. We just aren't going swank.
 
Breakfast Diva said:
We're considering pulling the carpet out of the cottage and replacing with fake (commercial grade which we have in our quarters) wood floors, then remove wall paper in kitchen & living room, paint, then replace the wainscot in the bathroom area with vinyl wainscot which is pretty new on the market here. We used the vinyl in one of our other rooms and it looks terrific and can stand up to the moisture of the bath area.
This is the same room we sunk $10,000 into 7 years ago and it still needs this additional work. It's a money suck. Fortunately this time it's mostly our labor which will make a difference..
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We want to pull up the carpet in our 'walkout' room and replace with fake wood. BIG concern is noise transmission as I can 'feel' the vibration of people walking across the cement floor even tho I am upstairs. So, we need to get super good padding under the floor and add some sort of sound-deadening material elsewhere in the room. Maybe swags behind the beds.
 
Madeleine said:
Breakfast Diva said:
We're considering pulling the carpet out of the cottage and replacing with fake (commercial grade which we have in our quarters) wood floors, then remove wall paper in kitchen & living room, paint, then replace the wainscot in the bathroom area with vinyl wainscot which is pretty new on the market here. We used the vinyl in one of our other rooms and it looks terrific and can stand up to the moisture of the bath area.
This is the same room we sunk $10,000 into 7 years ago and it still needs this additional work. It's a money suck. Fortunately this time it's mostly our labor which will make a difference..
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We want to pull up the carpet in our 'walkout' room and replace with fake wood. BIG concern is noise transmission as I can 'feel' the vibration of people walking across the cement floor even tho I am upstairs. So, we need to get super good padding under the floor and add some sort of sound-deadening material elsewhere in the room. Maybe swags behind the beds.
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Madeleine said:
We want to pull up the carpet in our 'walkout' room and replace with fake wood. BIG concern is noise transmission as I can 'feel' the vibration of people walking across the cement floor even tho I am upstairs. So, we need to get super good padding under the floor and add some sort of sound-deadening material elsewhere in the room. Maybe swags behind the beds.
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We have two different kinds of padding under our fake wood floor because of concerns about moisture. Since we're one story, I can't tell you how it sounds from the floor below, but the floor basically 'floats' on the padding. We bought our from I K E A and it's commercial grade, oak color and was the cheapest around. It's wearing really well, even when our very large dog with her long nails was still with us. No scratches. Word of caution, the baseboards that are part of the system are worthless. Way too cheap looking. We took them all back and used regular wood baseboards we painted.
 
Breakfast Divo said:
Madeleine said:
Breakfast Diva said:
We're considering pulling the carpet out of the cottage and replacing with fake (commercial grade which we have in our quarters) wood floors, then remove wall paper in kitchen & living room, paint, then replace the wainscot in the bathroom area with vinyl wainscot which is pretty new on the market here. We used the vinyl in one of our other rooms and it looks terrific and can stand up to the moisture of the bath area.
This is the same room we sunk $10,000 into 7 years ago and it still needs this additional work. It's a money suck. Fortunately this time it's mostly our labor which will make a difference..
Click to expand...
We want to pull up the carpet in our 'walkout' room and replace with fake wood. BIG concern is noise transmission as I can 'feel' the vibration of people walking across the cement floor even tho I am upstairs. So, we need to get super good padding under the floor and add some sort of sound-deadening material elsewhere in the room. Maybe swags behind the beds.
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Madeleine said:
We want to pull up the carpet in our 'walkout' room and replace with fake wood. BIG concern is noise transmission as I can 'feel' the vibration of people walking across the cement floor even tho I am upstairs. So, we need to get super good padding under the floor and add some sort of sound-deadening material elsewhere in the room. Maybe swags behind the beds.
Click to expand...
We have two different kinds of padding under our fake wood floor because of concerns about moisture. Since we're one story, I can't tell you how it sounds from the floor below, but the floor basically 'floats' on the padding. We bought our from I K E A and it's commercial grade, oak color and was the cheapest around. It's wearing really well, even when our very large dog with her long nails was still with us. No scratches. Word of caution, the baseboards that are part of the system are worthless. Way too cheap looking. We took them all back and used regular wood baseboards we painted.
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Ours would be the same issues and the reason we want to take up the carpet...damp. But, even with carpet in the room I can hear guests talking, the TV, guests walking around and slamming the bathroom door. The room is on the first floor, I am upstairs.
I would love to dump the carpet in MY room upstairs but I am afraid the sound transmission would mean no shoes on in my own house. I could always get a 'runway' of area rugs across my bedroom to walk on.
 
I'm going to work on landscaping this fall and next spring. Meeting set up with landscaper next week.
 

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