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Master Bathroom Pictures Part 2

Stefan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:26:55 +0000

I have been promising the last pictures of our master bath for a while now, but just haven’t gotten around to uploading them until today. Sorry for the delay. The final step to the master bathroom woodwork was to install a louvered door for privacy in the shower and toilet area. Here are the pictures that I promised and I am reposting all of the pictures so you can see the entire master bath set up in one spot. If you want to see what it looked like back in the day…starting with the framing, you can see that here.

On a side note. We fired up the Jacuzzi and it worked great for 15 minutes, then the jets just turned off. I assumed it was a breaker but didn’t stress out about it. Unfortunately, once I checked the breaker, I saw that we didn’t throw a switch. Hmmm, I am thinking that the Whirlpool jacuzzi tub might have an internal fuse or breaker that flipped but I haven’t gone under there with a flash light yet. Now I see why I left a door in the front and on both sides at the his and hers vanities. Funny stuff, nothing ever goes smoothly in our DIY Puerto Rico house. Regardless of the trials and tribulations of building our house in Rincon, it has and is still and amazing experience. I love this place, even when there aren’t any waves.

Cool, Contemporary Furniture in Puerto Rico

Summer — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:30:12 +0000

As most of you know, Stefan and I have had a hard time finding contemporary furniture while trying to furnish our house in Puerto Rico, but I just discovered something awesome!!

CB2.com ships to Puerto Rico!! And they don’t even rape you in shipping fees (shipping costs are generally 10% of your order price).

So, I took care of that problem I was having with lacking a place to put our books, and ordered the “Scaffold Bookcase“.

I bought quite a few things, spent around $600 and shipping was only $50. I also updated the list I’ve made of websites and stores that ship to Puerto Rico. Anyone know of any additional websites that I can add to the list?

Worlds Largest Pepper Grinder Discovered in PR

Stefan — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:23:20 +0000

Summer and I headed out to Mayaguez yesterday to get a bunch of errands done. We went to Marshals and Sams Club (total trip time: Marshals + Sams Club = Five Hours). The traffic wasn’t too bad, but we got caught at the same section of lights out by the Denny’s. Traffic would cruise through there so much more smooth if they timed the lights better. The way the lights are timed, there is always a jam.

We went to Marshals looking for a mirror to hang in the great room upstairs and to see if there was any other stuff we couldn’t do without. We didn’t find a mirror, but we found a bunch of other really cool stuff…some of it came home with us (towels, candle holders, wood bowl, laundry basket, Sierra Nevada Spicy Mustard), some of it didn’t (retro Nike sneakers, lap top bag, giant pepper grinder).

Check out this GIANT Pepper Grinder that they had in the Culinary section. Are you kidding me? This thing must break a world record. I would need to build a new pantry just to house this thing! Yeah, so this didn’t go home with us.

Fresh Pepper Anyone?

Dual Sinks for Master Bathroom

Summer — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:24:01 +0000

It’s time to get the sinks for the master bathroom, since we are getting close to finishing up the master bedroom and bathroom. We decided that we want vessel sinks, like we put in the guest bathroom, BUT we want the master bath sinks to be porcelain as opposed to glass. The glass vessel sink looks pretty in our guest bathroom, but it’s virtually impossible to keep clean. For whatever reason, the hard water spots and sticks to the glass like crazy.

Faucet.com is having a sale, so I figure it’s a good time to purchase the sinks. Here are the styles that I have it narrowed down to:

Master Bedroom | Bath – What to do?

Stefan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:48:27 +0000

Summer and I have really hit a road block on this one. We finished all the brown marble in the master bedrooms wet room (toilet/shower) except for the trim. It looks great. Now, we were going to use the remaining brown marble around our master jacuzi and two sinks (on the left and right side of the tub)…but after laying out all of the tiles and looking at it, we decided that we didn’t like it.

So, here we are, trying to figure out what to do in there. A different color marble? A slab instead of tiles? Perhaps we should get Granite or something along those lines? Summer and I are both brainstorming, so I decided it would be a great idea to get input from all of you guys. How should we finish the sinks and jaccuzzi in the master bedroom? If you want to post pictures, just put the link in your comment and I will post the pictures.

Here are some pictures of the jacuzzi corner, sink area and of the rest of the bedroom. Put your thinking caps on!

Puerto Ricans Hate King Sized Beds

Summer — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:50:59 +0000

Stefan and I have been shopping for our master bedroom furniture for a few weeks. We have stopped at every furniture store that we could find from Rincon to Mayaguez (Sears, Pitusa, Berrios, Rooms to Go, Seduca, etc) and have been highly unsuccessful in our mission for a nice bedroom set. The handful of times that we have found something decent, we come to find that they don’t carry what we want in king size. As a matter of fact, most furnitures stores carry so few king size bed options, that we started asking off the bat, “Just show us what you have in king size beds”. The sales guys then leads us over to the two ugliest beds in the store and tries his darnedest to sell it to us.

Today, we set off on our final mission. We went to 5 furniture stores before deciding that we would just go to Sears and get the bedroom set that we thought was “okay”, last time we were there. In a last ditch effort to avoid settling on something we didn’t really want, we went to the Pier One that is located in the Sear store, first. Low and behold, we found the PERFECT king sized headboard, dresser, night stand and bench, for our master bedroom! It’s from the Shanghai collection (which just happened to be on sale this week) and is pretty much exactly what we wanted. We also purchased a king sized Simmons Beautyrest mattress, and everything should be delivered next week.

YAY!

Progress on Our Offices

Summer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:36:48 +0000

The last two days, Stefan and I have been concentrating our efforts on getting our offices in order. It’s really, really hard to work when your office is a construction zone wreck, filled with random piles of crap! So, here is the progress on our offices. I’ll let you guess which office is Stefans and which is mine …

I spent a good hour or two just moving the furniture around, trying to get the perfect lay out. As I mentioned before, the walls are concrete block and plaster, so we have to drill into concrete in order to hang things on the wall. This leaves little room for error when making the final decision on where everything is going to go. Getting everything on the walls perfectly straight was probably the most time consuming part, but I got everything right on the first try, thanks to my handy tape measure, calculator and level!

We Built a Closet!

Summer — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:31:28 +0000

Stefan and I have been trying to take a break from working on the house, while Conner and Dianne are in town visiting, but I wanted to finished the closet really bad. So, Conner and Dianne decided to help us out and finish up the last of the master closet.

They helped build the last shelf and hang the last dowel. Our closet is finally complete and I love it!

Conner and Dianne helping build our closet.

Our completed closet!

Left side of the closet.

Right side of the closet.

Fill ‘er up! Can you guess which side is Summer’s?!

We love organization!

To make this closet, we used the following materials:

~ 3/4″ cedar plywood (4 or 5 4′x8′ sheets)
~ 6 wood dowels
~ 6 sets of dowel flanges
~ Belt hooks
~ Wood glue

Tools used:

~ Circular saw
~ Nail gun and nails
~ Electric sander
~ Level
~ Squaring ruler
~ Tape Measure/ruler

The total cost to build this closet was around $300 (since we already owned all the tools) and it took us about 6 – 8 hours of labor. Although, we can probably do it a lot quicker now that we have the kinks worked out .

Closet Fruition!

Summer — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:48:01 +0000

Stefan and I layed out the design for our master bedroom closet and purchased 3/4″ cedar plywood a couple of weeks ago. We finally started building a couple of days ago and it’s starting to come together!

The plywood that will be built.

Day 1 – Building floor to ceiling center shelf

Since the center shelf is floor to ceiling, we had to construct most of it inside the closet.

We measured wrong, as you can see on the top rear of the shelf. So we cut some additional pieces and fixed it. Luckly for me, Stefan is as big of a perfectionist as I am.

Day 2: Pieces for the sides have been carefully measured and cut and I am sanding the edges.

Right side has been successfully built (on the 1st try this time!).

Sides installed!

So far, I am so excited about what we’ve built! There was a bit of bickering in the beginning since neither of us has any experience building furniture and both of us are “A” personalities, but we’ve found our niches and we’re moving right along. I draw what we visualize, we work together to get the measurements right on paper, I measure and mark where the wood is to be cut, Stefan cuts the wood, I sand the edges on the cuts and we both put the pieces together with wood glue, a squaring ruler and a nail gun.

When building a closet (or furniture) it’s SO important to get your measurements 100% correct before you start cutting up all the expensive wood. All of my fashion design classes are all coming back to me now…Furniture design and fashion design are very similar when it comes to putting the design on paper, measuring, cutting and building. Who would’ve thought…:)

Today we are going to hang the dowels and build the side shelves. Off to Home Depot!

Stupid West Elm!

Summer — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:50:28 +0000

Damn you, westelm.com! I found the perfect day bed for our guest bedroom and they won’t ship to Puerto Rico.

A day bed seems like the perfect solution for our guest bedroom. Since there is a queen size bed in the loft area, we’ve been going back and forth on if we were going to get another bed or perhaps a pull out couch or something along those lines.

Cool daybed = bueno, West Elm’s shipping policy = no bueno!