Matt went to work so I was on my own. I felt fairly confident taking care of the task solo since I had plenty of past experience with the kitchen and bathroom floors.

I bought a ten pound bag of grout and was ready to mix. The only problem-I didn’t have the mixer attachment for our drill. My step dad had brought that along last time. I didn’t think hand mixing was going to work. What’s a girl to do? Use the kitchen hand mixer. This baby worked like a charm. Adapt and overcome. In case you’re wondering-this is now strictly the “grout mixing mixer.”

It was fairly simple from then on. Just plop on the grout with your grout float. Make sure to get it into all of the cracks. Bower Power has a great tutorial on grouting right now-check it out. 

From there it was just wipe away the excess (see how it looks dirty in the above pic?) and let it dry. We will be adding trim and touching up all of the paint where I got a little out of hand with the grout.

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