Hump Day update

Hey there my home improvement peeps!

This is going to be a pretty short update today because 1) I'm tired 2) There isn't much to show 3) I'm tired.   It bears repeating.    In case you wondered why is she tired, she's not doing the renovations?  Let me tell ya.    We not only had to move out of our bathroom but we had to move out of our master bedroom and into the Abogg's room.   We had gotten used to our fancy king bed that can raise and lower your head and feet, massage settings and snore detection and are now back in our old queen, it just lays flat bed.   Also, Hubster is using Abogg's bathroom (attached to the room we are sleeping in) and I'm using Merebears bath so everything is basically everywhere.    The weather here has been "PMS'ing" and Hubster has been battling the allergies hence the snoring so I've ended up on the sofa a few nights.   I did sleep in the bed last night but it was almost 1230 before I got in bed and had to be up and dressed before 8 and when you couple that with an "I'm a 8 hour a night sleeper" you get the I'm tired.   

Ok, so let's show you these three little pics and see if I can hit the sack before midnight!

Also, I did try to brighten the pics up a little bit today so hopefully they are sligtly improved. 

Today, they filled in the holes and re-textured the walls along with sanding and prepping the cabinets for painting.      See those 3 circles, those have led to our first snafu.   Through no one's fault, just a complete communication breakdown on both sides.   Basically, we thought we were both talking apples but we were talking plums and peaches.  We gave Hector a quick call and he and I will figure it out in the morning but those circles are the spots for the vanity lights which are sconces and were going on the sides of the vanity mirrors, not over them.  If it's the only snafu we hit, we're doing good.  

They got the walls textured where the tile came off, we aren't going to take the tile as high up as it was before.   Also, do not be alarmed, there is plastic over the windows. 

These cabinets are sanded and ready as well.  They did some chalk work in the seams so it's drying.

That's it....there was a LOT of sanding and texturing going on today.   They were ready to set the valves on the shower and bath but we have some kind of old fittings on our plumbing and they've had to special order those.   One of those weird things you don't know until you get everything ripped out.   

Also, Salvador was in today measuring so he can get the countertops cut.

In the meantime, Hubster has decided he wants to rip out the flooring in our pool bath and add the brick floors like we did in the kitchen/den.  The pool bath connects to the den floor and honestly we should have done it when we were doing the den/kitchen but we were really tired and over construction at that point.  This means we also are getting a new vanity, toilet and light fixture, so I have to get busy, busy and get those found/ordered.   It's nothing fancy since it's just the ½ bath that is used when we are out on the patio or in the pool.  

Francisco is going to start ripping up the powder bath while he awaits the plumbing parts so he can start tiling in the shower.   

Maybe tomorrow I'll be on the ball and show you those pics but I totally forgot to take any today.

All right, off to bed I go!   See ya Mañana !

Peace, Love & Plumbing!

Samma

Results of a 4 day work week

Well, Hi dee Ho there peeps!

It's last on Tuesday evening and I really need to hit the sack since the construction gang will be here bright and early in the morning but I wanted to give you a quick update.

Today marked the end of 4 work days and supplies are coming in, paint colors have been selected and I think (don't hold me to this) I have everything picked out and ordered except light fixtures.

Let's jump back to Friday and see what the crew left us with at the end of the first two days.   Once again, pics are straight off my phone so no fancy editing is happening around here.

Maybe I need to do a little editing...oops

You can see that got the wall down, just the studs remaining.

It's looking pretty empty in there now.

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The shower seat is gone now too.

Yeah, I definitely need to take pictures before it starts getting dark or turn on some lights!

The water closet still has the tile in it but I think they are leaving that until they tile and replace the toilet so they have a place to use without trapping through our house. 

That's it until Monday morning.   We had some dinner plans with friends over the weekend and our former neighbor was in town so we were pretty excited they didn't work any over the weekend.   

Let's see what Monday and Tuesday had in store for us.

We got the wall studs down and that's just the light switches dangling around now.

So much more light coming into the bath!

Monday had Little Leo working all day alone and he cleaned the place up well along with getting lots of construction tasks completed.

Those "moldy" boards got ripped out and replaced and you can see where the new glass shower wall/doors will be.   Don't you love the dangling light switches?!

He also got the new shower niche framed out.

Standing in the water closet door you get a feel for the space where the free standing tub is going to be. 

Poor Hubster has literally started back to the bathroom at least 3 times to take a soak for his back only to have me remind him that we don't have a bathroom to use back there. 

Also, you can see straight into our attic from the shower. 

I keep having bad dreams about varmints dropping into the shower from the attic.

We opted to go with mirrored cabinets over the vanity instead of the big mirror.  Hector is going to drill a hole in the cabinets so we can have outlets in them so we can hide our toothbrushes in there.   The cabinets can be recessed or mounted and the plan was to recess them but them that one little white pole threw a wrench in the plans.  That hole gets closed up again and the cabinets will be surface mounted.  

It's not terrible, I spent a lot of time in the store looking at the cabinets from all angles to make sure I was ok with a surface mount.  

Then we headed over to Sherwin Williams to pick out paint because Hector needed those ASAP on the QT don't ya know!

We are going with Daphne on the cabinetry and Icicle on the walls.   If you recall we used Drift of Mist on the walls in the kitchen and den last year.   I was going to use that in the bathroom but Hubster and I liked Icicle better but I'm probably going to repaint the Master bedroom before we move back in there and I will most likely use the Drift of Mist so I wanted it all to coordinate.   The navy blue will come in with decor and towels.  I was pretty sure Hector would have a meltdown if I went with navy cabinets again after the challenge they presented the last go round.

Tuesday brought a lot of activity and a lot more people to site. 

Roberto, the electrician was on duty most of the day and the most important task he completed was adding the outlet for my fancy new toilette!  

It's not the $4,576 one I found at Ferguson and tried (unsuccessfully) to convince Hubster we should somehow work into the budget but this one has most of the bells and whistles, it just doesn't open and close when you walk in the room, but I think I'll be happy.    I mean who can complain when your seat gets warmed for you in the winter?!!  Not this girl!!

Franisco was back and rebuilt the seat in the shower, you can also see the frame out of the big niche in the shower.  FINALLY, I'll be able to get those tall bottles in the shower niche.

New electric outlet on the back wall of the bathroom, we never had an outlet over there and I'm hoping I have some room for a towel warmer.  :-) 

The outlet next to the johnny potty is ready for that bidet seat. Well, once they install the new potty.

You have to look closely but the white wire in the middle are the ones that will be the outlets in the mirror cabinets, There are also holes cut for the sconces.  We are doing 3 sconces, 1 arm sconce on the far right and left and then a double arm sconce in the middle of the mirrors.   Now I just need to find the ones I like.

There you have it, you're all caught up!  Tomorrow will bring the shower getting the waterproof barrier installed, shower valves and the steam shower controller getting placed so that Francisco can start tiling in the shower.  (at least that was the last plan I heard)   I think the cabinets are getting painted before the floor tile goes down, Francisco is meticulous with his tiling so no one is concerned at all about him dinging up the cabinets.   Much to his surprise, Hubster has decided to rip up our powder room bath as well and install the same brick floors in that room.  Which means we are also replacing a vanity and getting a new toilet for that room as well.   Poor Francisco is going to need to move in with us with all the tiling we have in this project!  

Ok peeps, this girl has got to hit the hay, 7:30 will be here soon and I have my last Silver Frogs class of the semester tomorrow too.   Busy, Busy, Busy!

Peace, Love & Tile

Samma