Visual Interest

Blake pulled all the old galvanized water line out of the floor in the bathroom. Then he replaced all of it with new copper lines. The water pressure in the bathtub is quite an improvement now!
He sanding for what seemed like days. There was drywall dust everywhere.
This is with the first coat of primer. It is amazing the difference a uniform color makes on a room. The pink ceiling has two coats of primer and a coat of paint and you can still see pink peeking through. We will have to coat it at least one more time.
Yes the walls are gray. They look just like the drywall we just painted. But I think it will look really nice.
Blake and Todd laid the Ditra down first. It was definitely orange.
After about 10 hours of tiling. Blake and Todd finished! Lone day for all of us I think. But I think that it looks great. I can't believe that we are finally getting to a "normal" bathroom after a year of living in construction.
Again another photo of the floor and platform where the tub goes.

Sanding, Sanding, and a Steal

The bathroom project has been a long year in the making. Blake is still working on it but we are finally starting to see some real changes. Below is a picture of the new window that was put in this past summer. After this picture was taken, Blake pulled all the plaster and lathe off the wall and drywalled it.

Blake completely rewired the electric to the bathroom from the electrical box. He couldn't put GFCI's in until he had a ground wire. The old wiring....well was old! Now we have lights! Two tiny lights above the bathtub and one above the shower. Still need one on the other wall, but soon!

Now for the Steal I mentioned. Browsing on the internet we found a beautiful piece of furniture. For $1,000 less than originally sold for. This is the second one that has arrived. The first one was badly damaged and was sent back. It is around 400 pounds and we have no idea how it is going to get up the stairs but we will figure it out. We just couldn't pass up the great deal.


This is the top of the vanity. Complete with black granite counter and two sinks!

Another one bites the dust.

Another pink room down. We decided to take a detour from the bathroom project to work on an "easy" room. Well we encountered a few minor problems. This is the before picture.Remember the lovely lacy window curtains, the retractable beside lamps, and the striped and flowered pink wallpaper. Well the wallpaper came off pretty easily but it revealed paneling on the wall with the lights. Blake pulled off the paneling and found that the plaster was damaged behind it. He covered the wall with new drywall and replaced the trim around the window.

The next problem was when we went to find lights to replace the good old retractables. We had to put lights hanging from the ceiling in otherwise there would be holes in the ceiling and the acoustic tiles. We didn't want to have to find new tiles to match. The only problem was that they apparently don't make lights with on/off switches on the lights. So we decided to make some of our own.
We didn't actually have a bed either. Blake made a bed frame out of wood to set the bed on. Then we decided to make a headboard ourselves. It is padded with buttons. Oh and the lacy curtains are gone!

So we still have to find lights for the sconces on the other side of the room. Again they need on/off switches on the lights themselves. We also need to finish painting the trim and closet doors. I think we can handle that.

operation pink removal

Ok Sorry this picture is so big but at least you will get the whole appreciation of the "pinkness". So this is the before, very pink!



The first pink removal was the pink toilet. Bye Bye.




Then he knocked the closet wall out, put up a new false wall, and installed shower walls. Yeah we will have a walk in shower for the very first time ever.




Then it was time to refinish the clawfoot tub. We bought it for only 300. It just needed some scraping and sanding. Then Blake spray painted it black again.




Now it was time to rip the fiberglass walls off of the shower. And we discovered old turquoise plastic tiles. The bathroom smelled like shut up 50 year old wet. I know not good.



Here it is without the fiberglass walls, but there is still the ugly pink tub.


Well bye bye pink tub! Blake busted it up with a sledge hammer. It was such a mess. The pink enamel left shards all over the place. But hey the tub was gone!


The turquoise tile was glued onto a false wall behind the old tub. Blake pulled the false wall of and found out the walls used to be beige and peach. Then he installed the clawfoot tub. He was up til 4am just so we could get the water turned back on to the house.



So we have a lot of work left to do. We are planning on redrywalling the walls behind the tub. Finishing the walk-in shower. Pulling the pink cabinets and sinks out and tiling the floor. But Blake made progress and I am so excited about my new tub!

Not pink now purple

Pay no attention to the naked baby....This is Penelope's room. The only non-pink room is now purple. This was supposed to be Samson's room but that big pink couch didn't want to budge. It is stuck in that room. We made it work.
It was supposed to be ladybugs...I think it became a hodge-podge of ladybugs and flowers.
The curtains I found a lowes, they have bugs on them, and Tom made the bookcase/ dollhouse for her.

Bye Bye Birdie

Ok so this was the "bird" room as we used to call it. The wallpaper was tons of little creepy blue birds. They even wallpapered the closet doors. It was way too busy.

So after trying dif to get the wallpaper off, we bought a steamer. Man that was so much easier but it still took us forever. We finally stripped the walls of the paper and it was really boring primer white underneath.



Now its Samson's Winnie the Pooh room. The room stays really light because of all the windows. We knew that we could get away with a darker color on the walls. We think that it turned out pretty good.

The Pink Monster

We have now purchased a home in the Town of Cambridge, Ohio. It was built it 1917. It turned out to be pretty good deal, most likely because of some of the decorating. The bathroom in particular is very pink...
Also note the bedroom and living room... pink.



And lastly the dining room and kitchen for kicks... notice the camouflaged outlets.


So the process of remodeling begins. Hopefully the posts will not be in the so distant future.