The last blog post about the Bathroom!

OK, its officially a bathroom. Here are the final pictures. The shower is white 3 x 6 subway tiles with black trim tiles. The shower floor is 1 inch black and white hex tiles. The wall sconces have LED lights. The floor is vinyl. The tub was custom painted. We lost the bathroom closet but did get some built in shelves. We also got a new window, space heater and exhaust vent. We got some new towels and rugs for Christmas, but the space is big enough that I will need to get a longer runner-type rug for in front of the tub. I also need to pick up tp and towel racks. I would also like to get some hooks for the back of the door, a new door knob, and a shelf to hold a few things.

Its Almost a Bathroom!

We are getting close to a finished bathroom. They put in the flooring and the tub and started putting in the baseboards today. The electrician also finished all the electrical stuff today, we have a new exhaust vent with a digital control and a new built in space heater.

They need to put in the new window, finish the trim work, install the sink and toilet and the shower glass and then we are done.

Even with walling up the closet and having a separate tub and shower it appears we still have plenty of room.

The tub has arrived!

The tub made it as far as Albany on Dec 23rd, but didn't move again until Wed the 28th. It arrived yesterday. It looks great. I am glad I went with the custom paint. I called the contractors and let them know it arrived and they will be back on Tuesday. The rest of the bathroom should be put together pretty quickly now.

While waiting for the tub I did get quite a bit done around the house, but for some reason (maybe because there is still so much to do) I don't feel like I have accomplished much. I did get just about everything sorted and organized and back into the newly expanded quilting closet. I need to run out to the hardware store and pick up some hooks for my quilting rulers and then I should be done with that project.

I also did a bunch of my annual organizing and culling (I love getting things organized!):
I un-decorated the house yesterday. The place looks a lot more open and empty.
I went through my clothes and pulled anything I haven't worn in the last year or so out of the dresser, so now there is plenty of room for the new stuff.
I went through my drawer in the built-in and cleaned that out.
I shredded receipts from this past year that I do not need.

The house still needs a top to bottom cleaning, but I will wait till the construction is done. I am guessing that it will only take to the end of next week. Yeah!

Merry Christmas!

We let Ivan open one of his presents on Christmas eve (the green thing next to him) but as you can see he was still eying his other presents under the tree.

A wonderful Christmas so far. Lots of cool things in the stockings. A great breakfast with a new recipe for lemon ricotta pancakes. And there are few scattered snowflakes coming down.

Peace on earth, good will toward all.

Lots of white stuff, just not snow

The shower is just about done. All the tile is in and grouted the shower head is up and if you turned the knob water would come out, but as we don't have the glass yet we won't be doing that. The glass guys came out on Tuesday and took the measurements. As it is a slow time of the year for them they figure it should only take a week or so to get the glass.

On the reverse side of things the tub which was supposed to ship on the 20th did not do so. I called again and the message yesterday is that it was getting painted and should ship today.

In the meantime the contractor finished the closet in the other room. I looks real nice, so nice in fact that I realized, since everything is already out of it, I need to paint the rest of the inside of the closet. That will be a project for next week. I think I have some white paint down in the basement I can use.

And speaking of white. The odds of a white Christmas is iffy. Usually we are white around here by Thanksgiving. At the moment the 'white' we have now is fog and lots of it.

Starting to look like a bathroom

Progress is going well with the renovation. We have walls up and painted. And they started building and tiling the shower area this week. But my hopes for having a new bathroom in place for Christmas are gone. It turns out that the tub I ordered won't even ship until Dec. 20th. And we have to wait to order the shower glass walls and door after the tile is done. And after the glass is ordered it will take about 3 weeks to get it in. So now we are looking at early Jan.

In the picture you can see the orange water-proof barrier on the shower wall and the black and white hex tile on the bottom of the shower. The black threshold is also in place.

Holiday Decorating - a few weeks delayed

Usually all the holiday decorations go up the Friday after Thanksgiving but with all the construction going on, an unexpected family visit and working on the weekends this semester I am way behind. As you can see even Ivan was getting impatient and as soon as the tree was set up he stationed himself front and center under the tree. I don't have any Christmas music but I did find that the cable network offers classic holiday music as one of the free music channels, so that is what I listened to while decorating.

I was able to work around Ivan and as you can see the tree is decorated. I also sat down with the Christmas cards and got them addressed and ready to go - just waiting for Damon to put his signature on them. I even ventured out to the mall today. Nothing like standing in long lines to really put you in the holiday spirit.




On the construction front all the drywall is up. I believe they will start priming and painting on Monday. The space where the fan is sitting is where our new built-in shelves will be.