Day 7...

And we are still working on that bathroom. But I have to say, this is the absolute quickest we've ever worked! Our last master took almost 8 months to finish. That's why are terrified to rip out that tub at the moment! We'll just try hiding it for now. When we start getting our stuff out of storage, I am going to make a long white shower curtain that will go all the way down to the floor and cover every inch of that ivory color. It'll be nice when it is complete.

Oh, we looked into just resurfacing the tub, they sell this 2 part epoxy stuff, but that would end up costing us $70. We can get a standard tub for $100. So we are definitely waiting to get a new tub!

I was up till 5 in the morning working on that wainscoting (I started painting on it about 2 in the morning)! 3 coats of shiny white paint! Whew!!! I nearly went blind starting at that stuff for so long! And I touched up a few other areas on the other wall.

This is our new toilet seat...isn't the best! It has a potty seat built into the lid! I love it! Piper not so much..but I love it! She misses her cushy princess potty seat!

Up...

Down...

John installing the sink!!!!!!!! Yay! It's perfect!

So pretty!

The cutest faucet!

These suckers are coming down in the next few days to get a nice coat of white spray paint then they'll be rehung.

And John's nice new trim he did! He's brilliant!

I'm loving this room! We are beginning to like this house....it's starting to take on a little of our personality. Sweeeeet...........

I painted the girls playroom's concrete floor green tonight. Just to make it feel a little cleaner. After the bathroom, we'll start working in here again. We are texturing and painting it yellow and putting in a new ceiling fan.....oh and putting up crown molding. It's gonna be bright and cheery. And later, John and Meagan are going to come thru and paint a mural or something neat on the walls. Maybe the scene in the end of Astro Boy when Zog appears. I loved those colors!

But for now, the girls can play tic-tac-toe and hop scotch in the playroom.

I painted the ceiling and half the wall (where the texture is ready) the other day. Looks great with that lamp! Another great clearance deal from Home Depot. $12 regular $50!

So, that's what we've done so far. We still have some touching up to do in the bathroom, so I better scram!

BTW, just incase your wondering the cost so far....

Sink $40

Toilet seat $35

Flooring $30

Paint for walls $30 (shared with laundry room)

Paint for wainscot and trim $30

Faucet $25

Wainscot $40

All trim for it $30

Other door trim $20

Toilet paper holder $15

Medicine cabinet $60

This doesn't include nails, plumbing pipes, caulk, and etc.

Bathroom Is Almost Done!!!

So yesterday the girls and I went and picked up some carpet samples then went to the mall for a couple of hours to kill some time till John got off of work.

BUT before all of that I painted two coats of paint on the wainscot. It's looking good! I think, though, that it needs one more coat. And it needs some caulk around the seams.

When John got home, we ate dinner at Sweet Tomatoes then ran to Home Depot to get a few things we needed to put the toilet back in place. So we really didn't get to start back working on things till almost 10 at night.

We did reinstall the toilet! Well, he did. It was kinda funny too. We haven't the slightest idea what we are doing...kinda making it up as we go along with the help of Goggle. We called our plumber a few days ago to see how much it wold be reset a toilet and it was almost $90. We said "NO WAY! We'll figure out how to do it ourselves!"

So we did....the picture below cracks me up since this was John's way of installing the toilet.
I think it's just hysterical. I dunno...maybe you just had to of been there.
hahaha

Our toilet and toilet paper holder. It's so cute! I love it! I found it on clearance at Home Depot!

After the toilet, we removed the mirror. Nice hole, huh! There must have been a previous medicine cabinet there. I can honestly say that we are getting to know this old house very very well!

So now all we need is a little texture and some more turquoise paint and we'll be good to go to hang the new medicine cabinet!

We are going to reuse the old square mirror somewhere else in the house. We'll just frame it and hang it!

That's about all we got done last night in the bathroom. We quit about midnight then spent the next couple of hours playing Cafe' World and freakin' Farmville! Oh, and I fell asleep watching the Soloist.

The Guest Bathroom - Day 5

Today was pretty fun. The girls and I stayed at home and worked around the house. We played Lego's and play-doh this morning then before lunch we painted a hopscotch game on the painted concrete. Now instead of running down the hall, the girls are hopscotching down it. :) I also painted a couple of flowers outside of their playroom door. I think I might make it look like an area rug.

When whomever lives here after us goes to replace the flooring, their are gonna be like," What the heck were those people thinking!".

Girls love it!

The girls have been really big into making their own lunches this week. I am all for it! Love auto pilot! I just kinda hang back and keep an eye on the two. They come up with some pretty creative sandwiches. They have their daddy's tastes...they'll throw anything that they can together to make something.

And after dinner, we popped some popcorn that I found in a box from our camping trip that was cut short last year. It actually popped on our crappy stove top! And it didn't burn!

Then this evening when John was done working, we started in the bathroom again! The sheet rock is up!

The wainscot behind the toilet and sink is up!

John is VERY proud of his holes!

The chair rail...the final touch. Looks so pretty. We are a lil' closer to liking this house.

Tomorrow, is FRIDAY!!! YAY!!! TGIF!!!!

Goals for tomorrow:

* Pick up carpet samples

* Paint wainscot white

* re-install the toilet

* install pedestal sink

* finish putting up the wainscot on the opposite wall, take down the old mirror

* texture & paint wall that was behind the old mirror

* Put up new medicine cabinet/mirror

Then the girls bathroom should be pretty done except for some minor touches!

Here Comes The Flooring!!!!

The girls bathroom is looking so good guys! I cannot wait till it is totally finished! The only thing that throws it off is that darned almond colored tub! That won't be replaced for about a year or so.

Today, I painted the ceiling, caulked around the outside of the tub, touched up the turquoise paint, painted the linen closet, prep the floor for the flooring, painted hall way ceiling, painted the concrete (makes the house feel cleaner!), painted the shelves for the linen closet, removed old trim from around doors, filled holes on concrete with plaster stuff.

Man, that was a lot of stuff!

New bathroom ceiling....pretty!

Floor is prepped for when John gets home. See that ugly tub!

John is so tired, he finished laying the entire floor tonight!

Painted shelves and newly painted concrete. I think I am going to paint a hop scotch game on it for the girls until we get carpet.

Painted linen closet

Our new floor!!!! It only cost us about $35!

This room is one step closer to liking this old house!

Making Progress

Tonight we continued to work in the bathroom. We never found the water shut off valve thingy in our yard, so he had to turn off the water by the city's valve.

So tonight we removed the toilet, finished getting the old tile off the floor, John replaced the valves on the toilet and the hot and cold water, painted the linen closet walls, and got an idea of how we wanted to lay the tile.

I found a better picture of the bathroom before.

John assessing the situation...

John plugging the pipes with bread. :)

Me getting old tile glue off the concrete.

New fake hardwoods. :) It was super cheap!!!!!!!

Goal for tomorrow:

* put up sheet rock

* put up bead board

* prep concrete with latex paint for better adhesion

* lay flooring

* place 2X4 in the wall for pedestal sink
* put up pedestal sink

We should be able to accomplish all of that in one night....right????

Also over the weekend I started working in the laundry room.
I found this picture of a laundry room that I really liked. It was bright and cheery and won't make me run from doing laundry! Anyways, here is my inspirational picture...

I love the turquoise with white & black & chrome accents!

Before picture of the laundry room

Paint up and trim from behind the washer and dryer are out! Almost ready for bead board! When we were reading the directions, we learned that that wood has to stay flat for 72 hours before getting put up. So for now, the laundry is still not finished.

Me taking off the rest of that trim.

I let the girls draw on the walls were it would be covered by the wainscot. Presley was calling it her secret drawings that were going to be hidden.

Juliet helped her daddy out cutting the new trim that goes around the doors.

Old trim...I'll post a pic of the new trim when it is in place.

Bye Bye old trim!

So far, that's what we have done in the laundry room. I cannot wait for it to be done!

And on Saturday, Carl came over to help John finish up the girls bedroom. It isn't complete yet, but they did spend the day taping and bedding and putting up all of the sheet rock!

Carl....Master of taping and bedding!

Girls drawing in the walls again! They loved this part! Their art will always be apart of this house now!

John working on the outlets. I am so glad he is soooo handy!!!!

The room is looking more and more like a room!!!!

Here's the Monster stuff from Target that I liked.

So it's either going to be that or Yo Gabba Gabba!!!!!

Then we could all sing..."There's a party in Potty...."

Okey doke...it's late and I am sleepy.

Sweet dreams all!