Short pieces from the job site and the shop. Details we ended up using, mistakes we won’t repeat, and the odd specification worth writing down.
A dry-lay is the sketch before the drawing. You set the pattern on the floor with spacers, walk the room, look at it with the lights on and the lights off — and then you change it. Cuts that would have ended up under the vanity move to the center. Seams land on the grout line, not the threshold. The slab you’re spending five hundred dollars a square on earns its five hundred dollars.
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A dry-lay is the sketch before the drawing — and it’s the cheapest design decision on a bathroom remodel.
Opening a ceiling looks simple until you’re standing under it. A short note on ridge beams, collar ties, and when engineering is worth the fee.
Mortar is seventy percent of a stone wall’s look and nobody talks about it. We tint ours on site and sample it in three spots before we commit.
They both have a place. Here’s how we pick, by room and by client, without the marketing talk from either side.
New cabinetry never meets old plaster cleanly. A short photo essay on how we close the gap without caulk.
One slab, two basins, one seam. How we lay out the cut so the vein runs like it was drawn that way on purpose.
