NAFASI THE BLOG

The best compliment ever! This is what Patrick said before we even completed the bathroom! You won't get to see final product pictures just yet, because after it was all set up and almost finished, we started re-tiling the floor and had to remove everything again. You'll get the idea though! Just a reminder- here's what the bathroom looked like when we moved in: She's a beaut! So all that tile on the walls, had to go. Luckily they had great matte charcoal gray tiles leftover in storage!! A while ago they got to work removing those and tiling as much as they could until they ran out of the gray tiles.  They cleared out all the junk, and we really loved how the walls looked!!  I didn't really get a good shot of the shower after they finished, but you can see the tiles in this shot of the bathroom shelf we made. (We later added a towel bar at the bottom of the shelf too!) You can see in this picture the old light fixture above the si...

I admit, we did do some more fun house accessory shopping even though our walls were crumbling. There is some urgency when your walls are crumbling, yes... but there's also urgency in the small touches that can make a home feel more like a home in the meantime. I'll get to those later and let's all just pretend we worked on the walls right away like good home owners!  So surrounding almost the whole house, at the bottom of the walls in these older homes, you'll see the  wall bubbling out just at the bottom. In one area in our hallway, I curiously touched the bubble, and poked right through the wall, dust and pieces crumbling to the floor! We called maintenance.  They came through and crumbled all the walls back and re-cemented them. There is a lot of moisture in the air when you live in the jungle! And the walls are made of cement, and then painted directly over with paint. The water fills the cement and collects at the bottom, and the paint seals the...