10.16.2009 The Bathroom

There is still so much to do, but we are making progress. As of Friday the bathroom is in need of tile but the floors and shower are prepped to go. The glass block window (my favorite!) is in the shower and looks great!

They started the painting of the exerior on Friday. We have only a 2 day window where it is gonna be 60-65 degrees and sunny/scattered clouds (only Fri and Sat.) so we gotta hop to it. Since we can't afford siding right now and the house so desperately needs NEW siding, we are just having to paint it back the crappy brown color for now. It seems pointless at this stage to reprime & repaint over crappy wood that won't last another season. So to save money we are not even priming, we are just painting over the existing. We tried to color match as best we could, but it is actually a little lighter and more toward the rust color. It's not as hideous as ca-ca brown and almost looks like dark stained cedar houses look. They got the South side (it was the most faded, weathered, peeling paint side) done on Friday and part of the West side of the house (the back). So they will finish the steps, deck and back Saturday. The North side will be the easiests (least amount of paint) because that is where the new breezeway will be and the paint is in good shape on that side. Then the front! We should definately be able to finish the exterior paint for the house on Saturday. We are also having to paint the garage Facia/Trim and Soffit before they put up metal roof sheets. I guess it somehow wraps or something so if we dont paint it now it will be a big pain later. So i got the NEW COLOR for that - so we will be mis-matched until next spring or summer but who cares! We will be warm with the garage and breezeway this winter.

They patched up the area by the front door and new bathroom window with good siding we removed from the other side (where we are enclosing it) and it worked really well.

The goal for Saturday is to get some more electrical done (so we can bring the spare fridge), Erick & I will prime the kitchen & living room, and the guys will start building the Breezeway and moving stuff from the hosue to the garage so we have more room to work. I'll take some before and after pics hopefully. We got all the locations figured up and the boxes in place for all the electrical in the basement. Whew!

Here's some pics of the bathroom.

 

The floor where the vanity will be

 

The toilet area

 

My glass block window