The Bathroom

Ok well I started going through the renovation pictures, and there were so many I thought this would be better split up into several smaller posts. So..... here is the bathroom transformation!!!

After we ripped out EVERYTHING (see why here) we were left with this.
That is my wonderful, and very helpful mom


Next we had to have a meeting of the minds to figure out how to get this bathtub in.

After alot of staring....
grunting....


pushing......

shoving......and perhaps even a few choice words....we ended up cutting the drywall out!! HA!and finally I could relax... lol except all I did was take pictures! ;)
Then my expert floor layer, who happens to be my sister, got to work!!

lookin' better!!

Vanity and toilet in!


paint and final touches!!!

And DONE!!!!

OK well its not exactly done....this is what it looks like today, but it still isn't trimmed out. I watch all those home improvement shows and wonder how people can live with all those small unfinished projects?!? I would think to myself, "doesn't that annoy them?" Well now I know, it sure does annoy you, but after going through this mess its hard to get those last few things done!!! We will get them done, just not sure when!!!!

Hope you enjoyed!!! The kitchen is up next!

Demolition!

Hello there! I have had an incredibly trying day! I hope yours is going better than mine!!

Anyway, on to the home demolition. Let me say, we started the demo and got the house in "move in condition" in 8 weeks.

here we go!

Remember this??


Already looks better huh? Those cabinets were original to the house and hard as heck to get out!!!!
We ended up having to rip out all the drywall along one wall in the kitchen to move the plumbing for the new sink. The bathroom is on the other side of that wall.
Now we were going try try and salvage this cabinetry, and I was going to paint it. Then I decided that since the house has no dedicated dining room that this part should be the dining room. So all the cabinets had to come out. It really was a shame, good quality, ugly, but good quality. And again hard to get out!!!

No more cabinets and no more flooring!!
This is the opposite side of the kitchen. It had a tiny pantry. We decided that we would take the water heater from the bathroom and move it here. Dry wall over it and make it accessible from the garage. This may have been a bad decision to get rid of the pantry, but the water heater took up like half of the ONLY bathroom.

Snug in its new home.
eek. I cringe at the site.
already much better huh??

Next come the good stuff!!! Paint and these beauties
ohhh la la!! Can't wait to show you!