Bathroom Redo

I think I might have mentioned it in some past posts, but we are now actually in the middle (I hope) of the actual bathroom reconstruction. Mike has been working tirelessly over the last month or so to get all of the old master bathroom demoed and also getting some things done for the new bathroom that we didn't want to trust to the "professionals." He did an awesome job on the demo and we'll have some extra nice touches in both bathrooms thanks to him!

I think we forgot to take any real before pictures (and I can't imagine why would otherwise have any pictures of our bathroom!!), but here's the closest we've got - the night before the reconstruction begins.


This is looking into our master bathroom from the front bathroom. Mike took out the linen closet that was in the front bathroom to make room for our new, bigger shower. So for a short while we had connecting bathrooms!


And here's another view from the front bathroom. Those are our old bathroom fixtures. The new shower will be on the adjacent wall so the spray won't hit the door - yeah!!


Our sink area, with the new drywall (in green) replacing our white tile that was there. The half wall is new, too!


Yikes - that just looks wrong - a big pile of dirt in our new shower area! But that's what it looked like for a day or two. All the old cast iron piping got replaced with PVC. And just how did they get all that concrete out you might be wondering? Well, they jackhammered it out. A noise which the kids and I did not enjoy very much!! It was quite a loud day. We kept thinking it was all finished and then we would get another surprise. First Gracie was in the front bathroom and got scared "half to death" when they started up again and then later that afternoon, JM wandered into the front bathroom and then they started up again & he got quite upset. Even the workmen came out to see what was the matter he was so loud!! After that, they would come and tell us there was going to be a loud noise, even if was just the quick pop of an air gun!


And there's our front bathroom, with connecting feature gone!! And yes, we're hoping to wallpaper that new piece of drywall and have it blend right in with the rest of the bath. We're hoping to tackle that this weekend. Keep an eye out for the pictures.

And they've completed quite a bit more in the master bathroom, but I'll save that for another post. Oh and I might want to wait until after Monday, when they get to rip up the new floor tile they just put down and then redo it the right way . . .