This bathroom rehab has a pitched floor starting at the shower to allow easy entry with no curb wall to step over. The penny tiles feel good and provide a low slip hazard surface. When using this style of tiles I would recommend a high quality grout. Here we used Custom Building Products Fusion Pro Single Component Grout. The linear drain with tile insert is from Neodrain.
A client ask me to help her design and build a banquette seating area in her kitchen.
The requirements were that the seating have as much storage under it as possible, and that I use all of her reclaimed wood from various sources and some newly sourced spalted hickory and maple.
The specifications for this drawer was that it house the stand up mixer and its bowls. To support the weight I used KV 120-lb class full extension concealed undermount slides.
Doing some hand cut butterfly joints (also know as keys or splines) in a hicory table top that I am making. I say hand cut but I am using a router to cut the basic shape and then I cut the close detail with a chisel and a shape marking knife.
Then glue them up and hammer them in. I have found that a dead-blow mallet is best for this (Not pictured).
Here they are installed and the wood wet down to show the wonderful grain of the hicory.
Installed on our custom base cabinets.
A return client came to me with an idea for opening up the feel of their stairs. She had often thought it would look much nicer to have iron balusters and wood handrails instead of the drywall. The plan would change the feel of the space to more open and decorative.
Here is what we came up with..
Feel good on the feet!
I was thinking about this shower job recently when asked by a friend who needs some work done on his place if I thought it was crazy to consider using pebbles for the floor of his shower. Well not at all; actually maybe a little bit crazy. He plans on collecting all the pebbles from the beach on Lake Michigan where he walks every day. We shall see.
All the tile pictured was bought from Home Carpet One in Chicago and they were very helpful.
Sometimes you need to cut a contour of tile or maybe a piece of molding. The best way to do this is by using a profile gauge.
I will transfer the profile to a cardboard template and make sure the contour is correct. Then you can cut you material from there be it tile or wood on a piece of trim.