[speaker001:] okay so have you had a project recently
[speaker002:] well as about as a matter of fact about two years ago right now uh I've completely and totally remodeled and restored my kitchen
[speaker001:] that's a project
[speaker002:] yeah I uh I tore out the uh walls all the way down to the studs and started over we had had a uh the kitchen we've we had was um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] had a paneling in it dark paneling and and the cabinets were sort of old and it was just dark in here and old cabinets and uh counter tops
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] at first I was we were just gonna paint the thing and you know how everything just sort of grows
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] and uh so I ended up just just tearing tearing out the whole place and uh putting sheet rock in and building my own cabinets with ceramic tile on the counter tops and just everything new floor
[speaker001:] you must you must be pretty handy
[speaker002:] well uh I'm fairly good at it not not not enough to be professional or anything but I can do my own
[speaker001:] so you did the tile counter tops how do you like that
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum I love that it's it's really pretty we had just uh Formica and when I built the new cabinets uh I looked into this tile deal and I thought well you know I think we can probably do this
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and um it was uh it was not even not hard at all um it just I just followed the instructions the basic instructions that you use with the tile and uh they're not hard at all really it's just about anybody can do that
[speaker001:] um-hum did you have or do you have any problem with staining of the grout
[speaker002:] no not at all um uh what we what I've been doing is just using some like bleach and it uh gets it clean but it does it has browned over the the couple of years
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] you know but it really don't look that bad even though it has gotten brown you know what I should have done now that I think about it was used brown colored grout
[speaker001:] and just start out with that and uh-huh
[speaker002:] and that's right that's right you know because it does stain some I mean you could whiten it but I never have
[speaker001:] well how long did it take you to complete this
[speaker002:] um about three months probably three or four months
[speaker001:] that's not bad considering you did it yourself although I'm sure it was a real pain to have to live you know with everything
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well it was for a while the worst part about it was we had to do it when I got to the sink part over here what I did was I left this cabinet just about this one wall where the sink is to the very last
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and um I figured well you know I'll remodel the rest of the kitchen and then when we get to that point I'll do that last because we so we can keep the sink as long as possible
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and then we had we were without a sink about a week or a week and a half or so and um what we had to do was just take the dishes and uh put them in a big dish pan
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and you get water from the bath tub and then rinse them in you know for with the bath water not not in the tub but you're just letting it run under there you know
[speaker001:] no I know what you mean sounds to me like the perfect excuse that your wife didn't cook for about three months
[speaker002:] real really yeah we did eat out a lot
[speaker001:] did you have any major catastrophes or anything
[speaker002:] not a thing not a thing I almost thought I had cut through a water pipe in the wall but I didn't I just nicked it a little bit it wasn't all the way through and now that was about it
[speaker001:] uh-huh  well that's quite an undertaking uh you know
[speaker002:] yeah well have you have you done anything like that or or anything smaller or
[speaker001:] well nothing that big a deal my husband did um he made a cedar closet and shelving out in the garage uh for us which really was nice um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I don't know how it is in Biloxi we Dallas has no basements I suspect Biloxi
[speaker002:] oh no no there's nothing like that here either
[speaker001:] yeah well we come from the Midwest where there's basements and you know so you have to make storage where you can
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh yeah
[speaker001:] and uh he bought the sheeting uh the cedar sheeting and put that in and I didn't know for certain how that would you know how that would work out if it would be tight enough to keep the bugs and all out but
[speaker002:] yeah sure
[speaker001:] it's been great we haven't had any problems with moths or anything and the extra he finished the outside painted it to match the uh garage walls which is white and it's just beautiful it really added a whole lot you know storagewise to the house
[speaker002:] right right oh sure yeah it does
[speaker001:] but uh I think the only glitches he ran into on that I put a few nails in it so I consider myself a partner in this but
[speaker002:] that's right you are and you're and you're half and half
[speaker001:] yeah right the only thing we had to do is down at the bottom of the doors he had to put in oh like some extra closure because even though he thought that the um the plywood that he got was straight
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] somehow the humidity or something warped it a little bit while he was building it and we have to have a little closing you know to hold it down at the bottom
[speaker002:] oh oh I understand yeah a little latch like yeah right
[speaker001:] um-hum but that that was about it but our house in only four years old so we haven't done you know just a whole lot to it at this point
[speaker002:] well yeah yeah everything is still so brand new yeah
[speaker001:] um-hum although we're talking about adding uh the the ceilings here are high and the pitch of the uh roofs are very high and we're talking about adding like some rooms up in the attic space
[speaker002:] um-hum oh I see
[speaker001:] uh because there is so much space up there
[speaker002:] well yeah sure
[speaker001:] but uh I don't know that that's something we will undertake ourselves part of it we'll probably do you know like hanging the
[speaker002:] no yeah now something like that I would probably have hire have to hire