Bathroom Progress- It's Painting Time! Medicine Cabinet Lesson Learned

Bathroom Progress- It's Painting Time!
It's finally painting time! Dave has been working every night after work sanding, and texturing. When you move things around, and run into various things you have to re-create a clean surface so to speak. He did a great job on the texturing. He bought some spray texture to fill in the patched areas. A pal at work gave him a great tip- warm the can up in hot water, or in a heating vent FIRST. The spray comes out much better, it worked! I will wash the old paint areas today with TSP to clean them, then paint and a little minor spackling. Once the painting is done we'll get the modular tiled shower walls installed. We had to find a work-around due to our glass block window (love it). No grout, and easy care. Then it will be the flooring, then sink cabinet, toilet, etc. Then I can decorate, the fun part! Good thing we have a 1/2 bath available and the shower worked! We'll be donating our old sink, medicine cabinet, lighting, etc. to the Habitat store, since they're newer and in good shape.

Ikea cabinet

Medicine Cabinet Lesson Learned-
Well, ya know how you run into things in the middle of a project? Yeah, we did too. We realized how TALL our new medicine cabinet is. We forgot to take that into account, instead of just the width. DUH. Anyway, our old light fixture won't fit, so Dave bought some sconces (we'd thought about that anyway) to install. He had to install new power to that area last night, but got it done. The hole near the top of the ceiling will be unused and capped. Sometimes you have to be flexible!

Bathroom Progress, Thrifting Score! Finnish Artist Sanna Annukka

Happy Spring!!!

Bathroom Progress, Week 2-

Dave has been working really hard all week, after work and this weekend! He's patched the sheet rock, mudded, fill holes, prepped the floor, and coated the shower walls. It's got a waterproof paint on the durock (?) that makes it really waterproof, a suggestion by the plumber. Tub's great! Our vinyl got damaged in transit so it's another 5 days out. Going well, all in all. Shower walls will go up next I think, then texture the patches, then painting. I'm going to see if I can get Thurs./Friday off work for that. My daughter is getting married next weekend (sigh, not real happy) so it's bad timing. Oh well! Dave just mowed for the first time yesterday, it's getting green! Supposed to be 70 in 2 days! WOW. Weeds are everywhere, so we'll do what we can til the bathroom is done. Hopefully in the next 10 days, or less. Flooring guy will do that, then we'll do the cabinets.

Rained last night

Thrifting Score!

Yesterday I hot a thrift store outside my usual area. Maybe because it was closer to the higher end neighborhoods I did better. I have to go back there again! I was looking for some bathroom decor, with a Scandinavian twist- think natural and whitewashed. I found these-

A Swedish heart basket, $3.00! I couldn't believe it! 

I had looked on eBay for these, and they were much higher. The tag will go and I may whitewash it, or just give it a good cleaning, and new raffia. WOW!!! Love it.

Basket and a pot $3.00, plant will go in the pot, soaps in the basket

Basket, I threw away the blue fabric liner, for towels, etc.

Anya had to test drive it, with the liner

 

Frames, I'll paint the dark one

I also found 2 brand new items- a cardigan, and blouse. The whole bath was $24.00, a pretty good score!

Print by Finnish artist/illustrator Sanna Annukka, 

Finnish Artist Sanna Annukka-

I just discovered her and I love her folk-type art, and wooden items. I'd love to buy a "soul bird", but they're all pretty spendy. I absolutely love this green bird!

Ding Dong The Old Tub is Gone! Plumber Done, Bathroom Re-Do Continues!

New Tub & Plumbing!

Ding Dong The Old Tub is Gone! Plumber Done, Bathroom Re-Do Continues!
We had exciting news 2 nights ago- the plumber (a wonderful older gentleman) was available & he came today! We pulled the old tub night before last. Dave stayed home today and worked before, and after, the plumber.

Old tub, now all gone, off to the recyclers- $8.00, oh boy!

Nice and dry! Dave added more insulation for quiet between the 2 bathrooms

New plumbing

Ikea sink cabinet, almost done

Dave installed the new floor, patched the sheet rock, leveled the tub, etc. After more work is done we will finish up the sheet rocking edging, texturing, then I'll paint. After that it'll be flooring, then lastly the cabinet/sink. We found out the reason there was so much water damage in the corner was (I guessed it!), it wasn't LEVEL. New tub is level now, so no more leaks!

Lastly- 

if you think this is too much work... bids were from $5,000.- $8,000. We up to $2,200. right now, doing most of it ourselves. DIYing saves big $$$!!!