La Casita Blog
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How To Organize Your Mudroom!
Today we bring you a quick, but what we believe very important post, that will help you simplify the tedious task of organizing the mudroom. Here we will talk about our preferred method of cleaning and our go-to system on how to keep things tidy. Now if you don’t have a mudroom in your house…
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The Reveal – One Room Challenge
It’s finally here, the reveal day of The One Room Challenge Spring 2021. Can ya’ll believe it? 8 weeks have passed, full of planning and calculating, late nights and a lot of sanding, sweat, and wine, and a whole lot of teamwork. Gotta say it has been one hell of an experience. We learned so…
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Waterproofing, Mortar Bed, and Tiling – One Room Challenge Week 7
Today we bring you our Week 7 of the One Room Challenge where we poured our mortar bed for our shower, finished waterproofing, and started tiling our bathroom. That is what I wish I could say but in reality, we did none of those things. We barely finished closing everything up after completing our rough-in…
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Electrical, Plumbing and Framing The Finale – One Room Challenge Week 6
It’s finally here ya’ll, the awaited end to our electrical, plumbing, and framing trilogy. We finally finished the rough-in plumbing and electrical and closed up all the walls. Wow, it feels good just saying that. Welcome to our One Room Challenge Week 6 post. It’s been a long path this 3 weeks, a lot learned,…
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Electrical, Plumbing and Framing Part 2 – One Room Challenge Week 5
In this week’s Electrical, Plumbing and Framing Part 2 – One Room Challenge Week 5 we delve further into all the work we are doing, giving this bathroom its well-deserved rebirth. Here we have a continuation of last week’s work which we are not quite done yet. Take a look at what we’ve done since…
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Electrical, Plumbing and Framing – One Room Challenge Week 4
We are back at it, another week of the One Room Challenge has arrived! Click below for a quick glance at the past weeks! Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3 / Week 4 / Week 5 / Week 6 / Week 7 / Week 8 With the completion of last week’s demo, we…
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Demo Week – One Room Challenge Week 3
It’s here, it’s here! The day has come y’all! You have no idea how ecstatic I am right now. Today is the day-how do I put it gently- we tear to smithereens our bathroom! You can’t even fathom how sublime it felt taking out that tile, tearing out those walls, those textures walls! Ok. Now…
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Complete Home Renovation
A Home Made New “A house is made of brick and mortar, but home is made by the people who live there” -M.k Soni Inspired by this beautiful quote, we set out to write about a recent flip we completed in a suburb of Rochester, New York. After finding this colonial style house online, we…
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Bathroom and Closet Declutter – One Room Challenge Week 2
The Purge It’s week 2 of this exciting adventure and what have we done? Not much honestly, just clearing all our stuff out! You would think it would be pretty easy; just grab a couple of bags and totes and throw that shit in there. But no, somehow when you are organizing, junk multiplies and…
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Master Bath DIY Reno – One Room Challenge Week 1
It’s happening! It’s finally happening! We are remodeling our master bathroom! And it only took us 5 years, a lot of saving, planning, and staring at the puke color pink walls over the many years of taking dumps. But our sledgehammers are in hand and we will show no mercy as we take out our…