We were blessed with a nice tax return which we had counted on to make a bathroom remodel possible. It ended up being 'nice' enough to include a little bit of rearranging in the laundry room.
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Here we go...first off, Wayne pulled off some green floral wallpaper, and paneling that had gold stars on it. Below you can see what the bathroom walls looked like underneath...not too pretty. We had planned on just leaving the old walls, but when we saw this mess (and the huge holes that showed no insulation) we decided to have all the walls demo'd out and start fresh.
This is the closet area in the bathroom...it is going goodbye to make way for a new shower.
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There is the old mirror/medicine cabinet, and so forth...you can also see the cool 'gold stars' on the old paneling.
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Looking into the bathroom from the laundry room. This was just the first day and the guys already had the closet and walls demo'd out, the insulation in and the shower installed! Simply amazing!
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This is where the toilet and vanity used to be....so long old mess! (what an interesting disaster we discovered behind the walls. Layers and layers of old wall.)
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There is the new shower and ceiling with cutouts for the new lights.
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Up, up, up with the drywall! (outside, looking in)
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We also had new flooring put in...which meant that our appliances spent some time hanging out in the living room. Kinda nice having the milk and pop so convenient...but only eating microwave food is a drag.
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We chose a nice ceramic-tile-looking vinyl. Unfortunately for the flooring guys, the best way to install vinyl when you have radiators is to completely remove the radiators. So the radiators got to camp out in the living room too.
I felt so bad for the guys. I was upstairs with the kids, trying to stay out of the way, when they moved the large, long kitchen radiator. I heard one guy mention the weight amidst the rythmic, and slightly colorful, language (it was pretty funny actually..."one, two, three ferfenhiemer *grunt*...one, two, three snuzzeldorf*grunt*" [well, of course i can't write what they were saying! my mom reads this! just kidding. they were great guys and probably didn't realize i could here them; like i said, it was acutally kind of funny being on the listening end.])
What was I talking about...oh, yeah, one of the guys meantioned that he thought it weighed around 600 pounds!!! sacred heifer! [holy cow]
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The old asbestos tiles...buh-bye! Even just having the subfloor down was a great improvement!
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And there it is! The new floor!
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And the laundry room...the washer and dryer used to be on opposite walls. They like being friends and sitting next to each other. So happy together!
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ooh, aah! The bathroom now has a lightswitch IN the bathroom; it used to be outside in the laundry room. This great new switch features sterling white stitches and a glorious timer...not an old turn timer, but a new, high tech timer with buttons and lights...ooh, aah.
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The new toilet, mirror and sink! I know, I know, I gotta put the drawers and door back on still. We painted the old vanity an nice, rich black and it looks amazingly new! The old vanity was a little tired and worn out, but still solid. So for 10 bucks in paint, compared to 125, we have a new (looking) vanity.
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The walls are a light gray color so that I can change my mind and redecorate all the time! We plan on getting black and gray towels and hand towels and adding pops of color with the washcloths to match the shower curtain.
The shower surround is a Sterling 4 foot shower. This is a great shower if you don't have enough room for a full tub. A standard stall is 32 inches wide, this baby is 48! So much more room...
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And here is our cool shower curtain from World Market. I really wanted to find a black and white shower curtain, graphic, maybe floral, but i like this one too.
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