Bathroom

It seems like the bulk of our time is going to be dedicated to completing the bathroom. This weekend was no exception. On Friday morning, the bathroom looked like this:

You can't tell on the "before" picture but there's no paneling on the walls. I also made a pony wall to support the side of the tub. I also finished the crown molding and Grace painted it and the window trim. I had to wire in the outlet for the tub and the timer too. Here are the "after" pictures.

Grace picked up flooring for the main room today. She and I are both off on Thursday and Friday, so we should have the floor in by next weekend!

Bathroom floor

As we inch ever so slowly toward the completion of this project we hit another milestone today. We put down flooring in the bathroom. I had prepped the subfloor yesterday (chipped off spilled blobs of drywall mud and paint, sanded, scrubbed it clean) and early this morning I put a coat of primer on it. By noon we were laying tiles and by two o'clock the floor was in. Next comes the wainscoting on the lower walls and then the fixtures.

Before

After

Trimming windows

I started trimming windows on Friday morning. I suffered a setback when I discovered that the manufacturers of the tape measure I was using were unfamiliar with the imperial system of measurement. (Apparently they had never heard of the metric system either.) Once I figured out how to convert drevnergysies into inches I was on my way. Unfortunately I had already cut up quite a bit of trim by that time. The sum total of my efforts for Friday - one window trimmed up and a lot of kindling for the wood stove.

Today went better. I found a real, American-made tape measure and got the rest of them trimmed up in no time at all.

I remember when we renovated our living room many years ago that it seemed like we were getting nowhere until we trimmed the windows and suddenly it looked as if we were almost finished. And then it was only a short six months or so before we were done... We should be able to do better with the addition. Time will tell.

Trim, Tub surround

My Friday was spent installing trim in the addition. I got started in the morning and Grace helped me finish it up when she got home from work in the afternoon. After dinner we headed to Home Depot for supplies for Saturday's project. When we got back from Home Depot I caulked until midnight so that it would be ready for touch-up paint next week. We are very pleased with the way it turned out and are looking forward to trimming up the windows soon.
The reason for the above mentioned trip to Home Depot was to purchase materials for the tub surround. It's expensive stuff. We almost made a very costly mistake during installation but we figured out a way in which a three dollar piece of trim will hide a potentially hundred dollar blunder. The surround turned out great too. It still needs to be caulked and trimmed but it's starting to come together.