Shower walls with cement board and the floor has slope!
Stairs are stained and have 1st coat of clear coat.
Crown molding in the living room is up and caulked. Only thing left to do is to paint it and touch up the wall paint!
I started sanding the dining room walls last weekend.
3rd pond is drained as much as I can without killing off the water Iris living in it.
2nd pond and box are drained.
This USED to be a pile of brush. Now it's just weeds. Part of what the youth hauled off for us that we'll be burning on Sunday night. Jason just needs to bush-hog the weed pile and it'll be gone!
Behind the garage. This used to be full of old firewood and construction debris. Now cleaned out thanks to the youth from our church! We also over-turned the rail barrels so the misquitos will die. :)
Another pile of weeds that used to be a brush pile.
Our equipment shed being useful. We have: a truck, a fancy lawnmower, a tractor with a bushog attached, and a trailer. The tractor, bushhog and trailer aren't ours. :)
Since I forgot to post the pictures I took of the process throughout the weekend, I'll just post the "finished" pictures instead. Here you go!
Quarter round is down between the baseboards and finished floors in the living room, dining room, and hallway.
"Finished" bathroom!
The shower stall has the "membrane" down and the plumbing installed!
Shower plumbing.
Showing the toilet stall and the shower stall.
After 3 coats of the strongest primer I could find, the nicotine finally stopped bleeding through the ceiling!
Downstairs bathroom
Color on the wall!!! Downstairs bathroom
Handrail and posts are stained!
Downstairs bathroom. Tile is grouted and walls, trim, and ceiling are primed!
Dining room. Floors finished!
Dining room into living room.
Hallway
Living room
Living room
Newell post and treads stripped.
Stairs stripped
Posts and handrail stripped
In the downstairs bathroom we previously had a "drop-in" shower. It was very small. We wanted to replace it with a new drop-in shower, but couldn't find any small enough. While demo'ing the bathroom we realized the wall cavity had been built out to accomodate the small shower. Which meant we could put in a bigger shower. But the space was odd-sized. In order to maximize the shower space, and minimize price, we decided to tile the entire shower enclosure and make a "custom" shower. All of these decisions were made in two days.
Here is the tile we've chosen for the floor of the shower (the red stuff), against the white wall tile we're also using for the walls of the shower.
The shower floor tile against the living room floor. The floor in that bathroom will be refinished also, so it will look pretty much like this.
Downstairs bathroom. Tile is completely up! Still needs grout.
Downstairs bathroom. Sanding the walls to prepare for painting.
Fish tank in front of the window from the Dining room.
New kitchen outlets. I've patched around it. Just need to sand it and we can put faceplates on!
Beautiful new kitchen wall!
Dishwasher. It works!
Kitchen window painted! Need to take tape off.
Day 2 sanding. Hallway
Day 2 sanding. Living room
Day 2 sanding. Living Room
Day 2 sanding. Dining room
Day 2 sanding. Dining room into living room
Kitchen. We have a thousand staples in the wood that we can't get out. We are debating about whether to sand over them, and embed them into the wood and leave it, or to put a tile floor over the top.
Day 3 of sanding. Dining Room.
Day 3, Dining Room looking into living room.
Day 3, dining room looking into living room.
Day 3, dining room looking down hallway to side door.
Day 3, looking into dining room from living room.
Day 3. Living room.
Day 3. Living room.
Day 3. Mantle.
Day 3. Hallway.
Day 3. Hallway
Day 3. Hallway looking into dining room.
Kitchen test patch.
Kitchen test patch.
Some more green stuff blooming outside.
Floors with stain! Day 1 of stain (it takes 4 days). Dining room.
Day 1 of stain. Hallway by side door.
Day 1 of stain. Living room.
Day 1 of stain. Hallway into dining room.
Newell post being stripped.
Day 1 of stain. Living room. The stain was still wet.
Day 1 of stain. Dining room
Jason in action. :)
Demo of the downstairs bathroom.
The wall where the sink used to be.
Hum... The wall cavity is open behind the shower. That's a slight problem.
You can see where the old tile soap dishes used to be and the wall sconces.
Bathroom floor. Hardwood. We're having it refinished. :)
Upstairs bathroom totally gutted. The white tile in front is what we're putting back on the floor.
Look ma! No tub!
Look ma! A tub!
Downstairs bathroom with plumbing moved for the pedistal sink.
Downstairs bathroom where toilet used to be. New baseboards and tile!
Downstairs bathroom. Where sink used to be. Baseboards!
Newell post
It is so pretty without all that paint on it. I'd never even noticed the little dentils on the bottom!
Handrail getting closer!
Bathroom with tile 1 more time.
Sun room. Look familiar? Look back about 12 weeks ago...
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My "office" area. No wonder I can't get any work done...
Upstairs bathroom. New plumbing run through the floor and new pipes for the sink!
2nd day stain, dining room
2nd day stain. Living room
2nd day stain. Hallway
2nd day stain. Dining room.
2nd day stain. Living room
The tub is IN the upstairs bathroom! Plumbers roughed in the plumbing for it.
Roughed in plumbing for the tub.
Scraped all the wallpaper off the master bedroom wall over our bed. Look at the mural that was painted on the wall.
Newell post getting cleaner and cleaner.
Downstairs bathroom. Tile around toilet, and new toilet!
Tile in downstairs bathroom. Still needs grout.
Shower in downstairs bathroom. Completely dismantled, ready to pull out!
Wall cavity above shower. Showing how much room we'll gain by doing a tile shower instead of a drop-in.
