Friday, January 9, 2009

Bathroom Renovation during Christmas




What a busy time it was around here at Christmas. We always travel to my in-laws place in Florida for Christmas and we love it. It does, however, take a lot of thought AND work getting ready, traveling to and from and cleaning up when we get home. Added to the mix this year was re-doing our kid's bathroom. When I say re-doing, I mean we tore it down to the studs. It looks beautiful but we were exhausted almost every day for 1-1/2 weeks. A lot of the time was waiting for something to set or dry but most of it was hard-core work. We got the sledgehammer out and tore out the floor, shoveled it into trash bins then turned our attention to the walls. This was the easy part. Then Greg had to put new walls up and the tiling was a bear. We have done it before but we chose a difficult pattern for the wall AND I wanted to lay the tile on the bias. It turned out beautifully but the cuts were a difficult at times to get right and it would have been so much easier to just set straight. It wouldn't have looked as nice but would have taken a fraction of the time. Oh well. We saved a lot of money doing it ourselves and we got a lot of satisfaction. Next job: our master bathroom. (I'm getting tired just thinking about it.)

2 comments:

Maria Peters said...

Outrageously beautiful. Wow! Take some time to regroup.

Life With Dogs said...

It looks great!