Bathroom Update

 Got all the sheetrock in. Mudding and taping.

Red guard (robber paint) in the shower area. Kenneth got the storage cabinets screwed together, ready for painting. 

You can see the door behind, we enlarged it from 24" to 32". Wheelchair accessible.

All cabinets and door will be painted white.

The cabinets will be stacked on top of each other.

Bathroom Ideas...

 Green and White...

Main Bathroom Remodel

 Building it back...

We moved the light switch into the room and added a plug in. Had to move the light box over and added brace boards for a shower bench and cubby. Braced the plumbing in the wall and had to put down self leveling where the old cabinets were.

Last Bathroom Remodel

 Started the tear out Thursday,  January 21, 2021

Kenneth walked in and said "When do you want to start on this bathroom?"  and so it began.

Before...

everything is gone. Let the rebuild begin...

Leah said "Oh look, we have a toilet in our room now!" 

Whole new meaning to a bedroom with on suite...

JUST A QUICK UPDATE...

I'm at work posting this so sorry, no pictures, just wanted to check in and let you know what we've been up to.  

We did get the shower enlarged 6" and the new wall rebuilt.  Kenneth got the plumbing for the shower moved from the back wall to the wall on the left.  So now we can open the door and turn on the water without getting wet. YEA!  We were getting ready to wrap the new plumbing lines and put the insulation back into the attic when we started having water back onto the floor or come up in the kitchen sink whenever I did laundry.  Hmmm that's not good...

So, we tried blasting the line out thinking we had a clog or something in the drain line going out to the gray septic tank.  NO LUCK...  So we had a friend come over and we dug out parts of the line and discovered it was completely blocked, we only put in 20' of perforated line back in 2004, and we needed to replace the whole line.  The more we dug the more problems we found...  The steel line coming out from the house was completely rusted out and we had to reroute the line coming from the kitchen sink which ment drilling through the brick.  The lines going into the septic tank were only being held in place by the dirt and weeds and they had shifted over the years, Kenneth got to where he didn't want to keep digging but I was like "We have it all dug up so we just as well fix it all now or we'll be back out here again in a few years."  So 10 days later... we now have 50" of perferated line and a completely new septic system coming out from the house with multiple clean outs. We also had the tank cleaned so its all brand new.

Needless to say the bathroom remodel had to be put on hold, but now that its finished, except for the mess in the back yard...  which will take a while to get all the rocks picked up, I told Kenneth to mow away from the house for awhile (maybe 5 years or so, "grinning")...  So last night I was able to do laundry again  YEA!

Unfortunately since the money I had saved for the glass shower door is now burried in the back yard, the new shower, when it gets done, will only have a shower curtain.  But thats OK too.  Because I can do laundry. SMILE :-)

This weekend we'll take a break and go down to Shreveport with the granddaughters and celebrate Mardi Gras.  "Laissez les bons temps rouler!"  Let the good times roll...

What's up for 2017?

 Remodeling our master bathroom has begun...

Bye-Bye baby blue and brown paneling form 1972.

the light I bought for in here but after we put it up I think it will be moved to the front bathroom when it gets remodeled next. 

Kenneth will be working on completely gutting everything down to the studs.  We want to enlarge the shower to make it 3'X3'

this is the tile I picked for the shower floor

this is my vision.......

but with only one sink.

Also I'm working on decluttering some more,

these are just some of the areas in the craft room I need to go through...

I got these shelves moved from boxes to the storage containers,

 looks much better

started on my 4th dishtowel, seems like I'm doing 

about 1 a year.

We made a PHO bowl and ate our New Years Day cabbage in the form of egg rolls and homemade apple pie.

What do you have planned for 2017?

and then I changed my mind...

we are progressing with the horizontal stripes...

four down... one to go...

but that means, climbing up and down the ladder, so I've saved it for last...

this is the accent wall Kenneth mudded over, 

It was suppossed to be Green, But I changed my mind... WHAT!

  OK, so I am known for making changes in the middle of just about every project,

and I must admit Kenneth is getting much better at going with the flow. 

I really like this.

 

 I felt like we were on one of those remodel shows last night...when Kenneth removed the bottom trim we discovered this... termite damage!

 thankfully we had the house treated a few years ago so there was nothing alive.

So back to town for a replacement piece...

Luckily only the paneling was damaged.

We interrupt this redo...

We started painting in the craft/sewing/computer room last weekend, Kenneth hates the paneling, but we can't afford to replace it because that would mean redoing all the window and door trim in the room.  So while Kenneth mudded one "accent" wall,

 I decided to play a paint trick with the paneling by painting it with horizontal stripes. I'm hoping that then instead of seeing the verticle stripes from the panels your eye will follow the stripes across.

 

we also pulled up and burned the old carpet. Kenneth even got all the nail edges pulled up while I was painting. It ended up taking three coats, but are your eyes fooled...

my next day off I was going to start painting the alternate stripe. We had picked a color which we both agreed on! No Yellow, No Blue, Pink, Purple, Black, Gray...

"Behr Paint Honeydew"

but when I put it on the wall...

it came out too yellow (on the right), so we went and had it darkened, 

 It's also got painted over to see the difference.

BUT... the girls came to spend the night and since their room looks like this...

I made them a pallet and a tent over it, (their Dad's idea) made from the silk sheet and dining room chairs.

We'll get back to painting on my next day off...

Learning to Quilt...

 I liked this block, "Drunkards Path", I think they look like birds...

now I just have to quilt it...

cut "piece" work...

then we added sashing.

This is Sunbonnet Sue, an applique technique...

Last week we went to Oklahoma, I wanted my Mom to start teaching me how to quilt,

 by starting with the basics.  We had a wonderful visit,  

Now to get the Craft/Sewing room done...

Yeah, we have some work to do... 

Painting, remove carpet, new flooring, you guessed it, this is our next project.

Believe me, Kenneth hasn't been bored since he retired!

Now where did he go?