With a Quickening Pace We Race

Awhile ago the Most Amazing Wife and I decided our bathroom needed to be made less ugly. Then we decided no better time than the present to get this party started, so we are now eyeball deep in Project Make Our Bathroom Less Ugly. We had planned on ripping out the wall paneling circa 1950 something and paint the walls, and put in a new sink and new medicine cabinet. Well as is the case with most home improvement projects it didn't go as planned. We pulled the wall paneling off and discovered the drywall underneath was trashed and needed to be replaced. Ok, no problem. Then we found the shower tiles were laid on the wall paneling and that was laid directly on the drywall. So when we took out the drywall we had to gut the shower. Ok...so we'll go to the gym and shower for awhile. Then we realized the shower fixtures aren't compatible with today's technology and the shut off valves that control the shower rotted out. So we had to redo all of the plumbing to install the shower fixture. Then we decided well we're down to bare studs let's go for broke and tile the floor. We had hope to have it all finished by Christmas, mind you we started in the first week or two of December. Well, we didn't hit it so we revised it to New Years. Well New Years is coming up and we still have a few hills to clear so our goal is to now get the floor in by New Years.

We finally have all the walls up with 2 coats of primer, waiting for their final coat of paint. We're going to start cleaning and laying out the floor plan for tiling in the next day or two. After that's finished we can put the sink in, the new mirror and cabinet, tile and paint the shower and put the shower fixture in. Ya.

I feel like we can see the finish line from here, we are starting to put away tools that we don't need anymore and think about installing things. We've been taking pics throughout this odyssey and hope to post the whole slideshow here and everywhere very soon. After we take a shower in our new shower of course.