What is wrong with me? Why can't I use a camera? In the last year we've been through 4 (yes, FOUR) digital cameras. I took like 30 pics of the bathroom before I tore it up, and none of them will download from the camera. You will have to settle for what I could find of "before" and the few of the "during" that did work.
Dinner was spaghetti, obviously.
what's so scary about that?
the wall directly behind me is the one I'm building up to be a full wall.
Dinner was spaghetti, obviously.
what's so scary about that?the wall directly behind me is the one I'm building up to be a full wall.
I call this part of a project "the ugly stage" (no need for an explanation...you all saw the photo of me posted above) It's the point of no return where you really just have to finish what you've started, yet it's SO ugly, you can't imagine it ever looking like that picture from Better Homes and Gardens that inspired you to pull out the sledgehammer in the first place. The scraped ceiling. I had some great pics of the floor buried in 2 inches of white dust, but they didn't turn out. The wires hanging from the ceiling are where the radiant heat unit used to be. I need to cap off the line and feed it up through attic. I'll wait until it's less than 5,000 degrees up there to do that. 
Removing tile sucks. I am totally impressed with myself for salvaging the walls behind it though. Now I can hang the backer board directly on top and get to tiling.
Again, I give you "the ugly stage"... The wall with all the junk removed and plumbing exposed. I have another plumber coming today to give me a bid. Oh, this picture has a teeny bit of the awesome vinyl floor in it. That is going to go...along with the carpet in front of the vanity. Tile, tile, and more tile! And how 'bout that nasty tub? I can't believe I put my babies in there. If you look close you might see a few drops of blood from my big toe where I sliced it open on a piece of chipped tile. My advice...Don't work in flip flops...it is stupid. I can't wait to get this over with! It is going to be so nice! I'd really love to take a break from home projects for a little while, but now that the subfloor under the tub is exposed....the smell of moist insulation is begging me to put a wiggle in it and get that wall closed back up!
9 comments:
you so crazy~
i hope this time you got a contractor to come out and give you a bid so you could have PROOF for Aaron on all the FREE labor you are providing. cuz seriously you have saved your family thousands of dollars.
make that TENS of thousands.
Sorry that camera didn't last longer. sucks. The project is looking good. just remember to make sure the supply riser on the shower is well strapped to the framing, so you don't end up with a shower so noisy it wakes up the kiddos.
You are doing another bathroom! Good luck with that. How do yopu know how to do all this stuff? Your a mad women. I love it. Can't wait to see the finished project.
I love to look on Quincy's face in the tub pic. The one from Jana's wedding is my favorite, though. totally reminds me of you in the video from my 5th or 6th birthday. Cute.
why are you so talented?
Where's the picture of the new wall and plumbing??
Guess what? I'm now in town Saturday if you want to bribe Aaron to disappear with the girls and do some tiling...or, er, I guess he could help, too if he wanted...
I'm stuck on the hardibacker...I'm trying to figure out if I need to tear the sheetrock out and attach it directly to the studs now. Of course I'll take help from you! Let me know what time you had in mind and I'll plan something fun for him to do with the kiddies. He's going to play madden Wii later on saturday night, so this should be a fair trade :o)
So, you call it the ugly stage I call it inspiring! I love to see the open studs and the plumbing exposed it just looks like anything can happen at that point.. of course sometimes it does :( I also love the taped & mudded sheetrock! It means the really hard part is done (sanding... yuck!)
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