We got some furniture for the dining room. It was a royal pain to put together, and shockingly enough wasn't made in China (but a country not too far from there). Holes from one piece to the next didn't line up very well. Here's how it came out.
The last really big challenge remaining indoors is to do something about the horrible upstairs bathroom. The wallpaper isn't great, but it's passable. The really bad part was the floor. Someone thought it would be a good idea to take up the linoleum but then must've gotten too scared to tile the floor so instead they got a bunch of u-stick-em tiles (pull the paper off the back and stick 'em to the floor). Those looked terrible and didn't stick to the floor very well at all.
So I decided to do the right thing and put real tile down. I'm not trying for anything fancy here. Just something that's neutral and would go with pretty much anything. Since it's upstairs I had to install some underlayment first. I decided to use 1/2" thick cement board (Perma Base) and it worked pretty well. To make a cut just score it and snap along where you cut. Then to install put thin set down first, then screw it in with 1 1/4" screws. It seems pretty solid. Anyway I'm done installing all the whole tiles and only have the ones that need to be cut next. I'll try and finish those tomorrow, then install the toilets and grout everything on Tuesday.
There's only one small problem but it has an easy solution - the toilets used to sit on linoleum, then junk tiles on the floor. Real tile sits about an inch higher. Luckily they make extensions for the closet flange that will make up the gap. Stick it on with silicone sealant and you're good to go.
So if you're ever going from linoleum to tile you'll need two easy things. An extension for the toilet drain (closet flange) and cement board as an underlayment. Then you're good to go!
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