Shower Glass - maybe early October

Shower glass takes 2-3 weeks :( . This is our temporary shower curtain. Works well enough. Ed is so clever.

Bathroom Cabinet

This is from Restoration Hardware. I finally got all the bathroom stuff back into the bathroom last week. Now I need to shop for some better looking baskets.

You can also see the tile on the floor really well in this picture. It's been scrubbed and sealed now and it's beautiful! I'm really happy about the choice of limestone here.

Finished Tub

The tub has been in since 9/16. We've been enjoyed the air bubbles!

New Laundry Closet

I stripped the wallpaper, primed, and painted the closet. Ed and I moved the washer/dryer set from the basement to here. We finished the weekend after Labor Day.

New sink and toilet

These went in about Sept 8.

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Wall Paper was structural

After pulling down the pink striped wallpaper, much of the ceiling plaster came down with it. Ed got an opportunity to learn how to patch large holes in plaster. He did a really good job. Good to practice on a closet first!

New laundry closet

A while we are at it project... Since the plumbing was going through this closet, we decided it would be really nice to move the washer/dryer from the basement to this closet in my study. Electrical was added as well.

Well, before we move in the washer and dryer, we decided paint and shelves were in order so I just spent the day unwallpapering (hint: fabric softener + water melts wallpaper glue). There were 2 layers on the bottom half and 1 on the type. Nothing but plaster underneath, which is good. The bad news, however, is that some of the ceiling plaster was being held up there with the pink striped paper. So Ed will repair that today and maybe we can prime it tomorrow and paint it Monday (that's what holiday weekends are for, right?

 

Hole

The shower fixtures needed to be pushed out some because the wall ended up thicker than planned (uneven walls required building them out a little to make things square). So we got a new hole in the wall right by the other one that was the former location of the light switch on this wall.

 

Window

Finally got a decent picture of the glass in the window.

 

Medicine cabinet and lights

The fancy medicine cabinet is in. Still needs a bit of paint touchup around it. The lights are installed and the window trim complete. I really like how it is a somewhat modern bathroom, but the Edwardian type trim on the windows and doors makes it seem very much like the rest of the house.

 

Tub

So where we chose to put the fixtures caused a problem getting the tub to fit in that hole. A little trim of the marble was necessary. The drain on that end is going to require likely a hole in the ceiling downstairs in order to connect it.

 

Shower floor

 

Shower and Tub Area

The shower fixtures are in. We can take a shower in it this weekend if we put up some plastic.

The tub is proving difficult so its not in there yet. More on that in the next post.

Getting close!

So the walls and trim are painted, wall tile grouted, the electrical outlets are in and plated. The new tub is about ready to be dropped in once we decide exactly where the holes need to be cut. We thought we'd put them on the marble deck, but the faucet is too low to make it over the rim of the tub so they will go on the tub itself.

Ceiling fan is in.

Glimpse of the floor... Once it gets grouted (and hopefully we bought enough) it is off limits for 24 hours and they can't work in there. So it is probably Friday for that and Monday to add the sink and toilet.