Maybe a blog resurrection?

I've been wanting somewhere other than facebook to post a few photos of things around the house, so maybe I'll actually do it here.

We finally got the bathroom renovated!

Here's the awful, terrible before picture. It's from when we bought the house so it wasn't quite this bad right before we started the bathroom project, but still--it's what we started with when we moved in.



Brent did the awful, dirty work of removing all the old tile and paneling.



He then rebuilt part of the floor to try to level it since the bathroom slopes pretty dramatically. It's much better--as good as we can get it without the inside of the bathroom going higher than the hallway. Ah, old houses.

We tiled the walls with subway tiles.


And the floor is a mosaic basketweave pattern with a border of subway tiles, all in marble.


After the floor was done, we had Thompson Fiberglass come and refinish the sink and the tub, then a plumber got rid of the stupid old shower coming out of the wall, and installed all our shiny new fixtures from Henry Plumbing. The fixture installation was a two person job, so it was me and the plumber Josh. It all went pretty well until we found that the sink drain opening was waaaaay too small for the fixture I bought.

A little metal filing, some creative use of the lathe, and a little soldering got us a part that worked. I cut down the brass flange to fit, Josh soldered it to a smaller drain piece, and filed out the opening to allow it to fit, and voila! Sink drain works :)

After all the demolition, the glass of the chandelier was pretty dusty so I knew we needed to clean it. Brent realized all the tarnished brass parts would polish up on a buffing wheel, so he went to it. We went from old and brown to shiny and new. It looks great. I don't get all these brass hating people. With the right color palette, it can look great.

Here's the finished view into the bathroom.



And a look up at the gorgeous ceiling. Brent did all the crown moulding.