Candy Coated Holidays

I’ll be taking off the next few days to celebrate, travel, and feast on sugar/carbs/alcohol.  Renovation stories to start back up with the new year, but until then have a very happy holiday! 

Ta-Daaaaah

Finally!

Before and After in the Cotterpin Bathroom…

Old and New Floors and Toilet

Old and New Lighting/Medicine Cabinet/Wall Treatment

and the vanity/sink- LOVE the new vanity and sink

and a close-up of the vanity tile/basin sink- just cause I enjoy it so much…

Let there be light- again

The porch light is now up- but with my mind still fried from working on the bathroom shower surround, I forgot to take a picture of the old one while it was up in all it’s rusty glory.

So instead, I flipped the picture of the old light laying on my kitchen floor.  I’m sure you get the picture- old, rusty, buggy, and ugly.  And the new one?  Brighter, energy efficient, and oh-so-bungalow-esque.

Gotta love that.

Rub a dub dub

We’re almost done with the tub.

Just a few final details- like trim- and we’re done (finally).

It was a bit tougher than we though- as usual- but overall not too shabby. A vast improvement over the original. Tomorrow- the porch light.

Before and Afters:

Let there be light. And it was good.

We got the new kitchen light up today- and it’s already doing its job like a pro. We were surprised because, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, the wiring in our house is a little lot wonky. No black/white wire designations for us. NO! That would be too easy for expert home renovators like ourselves. All the wires are brown- as to provide a sufficient guessing game to keep us on our toes!

After all, half the fun of the job is playing the switcheroo game with the various wires, and then yelling down to M (stationed in the basement next to the breaker box) to hit it, and then hold my breath waiting for lights to come on. If they don’t, then another yell to cut it, then back to the switcheroo game again! On our dining room chandelier we probably did this about 6 times before I realized that I was out of combinations- and the fuse in the light switch had blown- so no combo would have turned on the lights.

sigh.

Anyway, attached are pics of the new light- and the ample clearance we now have to open the cabinets. We also noticed that the light is a lot closer to the ceiling, making the room look bigger/taller, and allowing M to walk through the kitchen without having to duck away from the fan blades out of fear for his mortal life.

Crazyfast progress…or what a man can accomplish between classes…

Got home from work, and two of my list items that I had been complaining about? Totally complete!

M had a little extra time today, and had taken care of getting the garden-hose plumber booked for this Thursday, getting the DSL internet hooked up to the laptop (finally!), and the dishes in the sink washed! Ok, so the dishes weren’t on my original list- but they had been an unspoken item on my personal to-do list.

Now, the focus is on the kitchen ceiling fan. As you’ll see in the pics attached, it’s kinda unattractive, and clearly hits the open cabinet door.  Unfortunately for us, the door needs to be opened occasionally, you know, to get out food and stuff.  So, you can see our issue with the fan.  So, down it goes-  on Saturday to be exact….

The Bathroom- After

So where did we leave off on this ohsoexciting topic?  Ah, yes…

As you can see from the prior post, there was some ugliness going on- so I patched the holes the best I could, measured twice/cut once the new door trim, then sanded the recently cut door trim angles so they’d actually fit together.  Finally, about two hours into the process, I put up the new trim, painted, and viola!  Goodbye ugly brown adhesive-  hello clean white trim.   Hello also to the fresh white paint that now splotched on the newer blue walls.  I was getting sleepy at this point, and had a little a lot of trouble cutting in…

What can I say?  I told you it was a tight fit… 

So, gotta touch up the wall, but overall, not too shabby.  Next up: the shower/tub walls.