• Installing Slate Tile: Welcome to DIY Hell

    March 23, 2016 / 73 Comments

    Slate Sucks.

    The surest way to guarantee that I will tackle a project myself is to tell me I should not be tackling that project myself. Tell me it’s super difficult. Tell me it’s not for the DIYer. Tell me only very experienced people should try it. Flat out tell me that I can’t do it and I want to prove that I can do it all the more. I know. I have issues. I don’t know WTF my problem is.

    Everyone and their mother (and the Home Depot tile guy) told me I should not be installing slate tile by myself.

    A square of four slate tiles of different colors

    I did it anyway.

    And I cried the whole time.

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  • Off The Chain

    December 3, 2015 / 8 Comments

    You may remember My Chain.

    You probably have your own chain. You know – those projects you have to do before you can do the one you really want to do. They all build on each other. If you don’t remember My Chain, (And you were too lazy to click the link I conveniently put there in the first sentence. And again here. (My God, how lazy are you??)) here it is: 

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