Update 4.24.13

Tile!  The horizontal surfaces ALL have tile! I have also cut all the baseboard tile and the door trim.  Tomorrow I install that and hopefully start/finish cutting all the shower tiles. My next few days entail a lot of work… well I suppose the next few weeks really… Here is my short term plan.  Tomorrow, I install the baseboard tile and cut the shower tiles.  Friday, I grout.  Saturday I can either stay inside and tile the shower and paint the trim OR I can start getting siding ready, possibly paint the trim, I suppose it will depend on the weather.  Through the next week it will be focusing on those items as well… Push push push!

On a different note, I was considering some options… I am kicking around the idea of buying a property downtown to park my house behind.  There are honestly some places that would be cheaper to buy than even to rent some space from a backyard… There is a whole tricky system to this, especially financing for me… I have a foreclosure fairly recently as far as banks are concerned… the idea though is that I could lease out the house, ideally covering the mortgage payment and living for free behind the place… I have a couple properties that I am going to look into further… what are your thoughts on this concept though?  It seems like free equity so long as I carry the burden of the mortgage and upkeep… but especially when you compare mortgage to rent… it’s possible to be making money off of the deal… One of the properties I am looking at would have a 15 year mortgage payment of 383 and I could probably rent the house out for 675… Making a couple/few hundred bucks a month and parking for free… hmmm… seems like a fairly easy call…

Here are some images:

James helped me tile by cutting almost ALL of my tiles for the floor, I think I cut like 6... he stayed ahead of me while I laid them in place. Worked awesome

I'm pretty lucky!

Finished up the floor!

In the bathroom, it is a little crooked but had it been straight it would look off!

Cutting up the trim for the doors inside

I went with a simple 1x2 which I will paint white, should look similar to the window trim.

I even got to use my router! I haven't used that for years, I think Ill find other reasons to use it, its fun 🙂

More routing

I even got all the baseboard tiles cut. It's sort of tought to cut my 2' long tiles with the tile saw meant for a max of 12", but we make it work!

I cut each tile in half which will make a 3" tall base board, I have some metal trim pieces that will cap this and make a clean look!

Bathroom trim boards

The bathroom tiles look awesome 🙂

It's dirty but will clean up nice!

The beast, ripping through all the tile!