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The bathroom still isn't done.  These are the kinds of things one notices when one goes to Lowes.  Again.  -> 

Never Ending

This McMansion house has been in some stage of construction for the past two years. No kidding. I'm sure it will be imposing lovely when it's done. But right now it's a blight. ->





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Alden

Kinda abstract, I know, but I love it. It's the sign hanging in front of a cleaners close to my house. I've been telling myself since I started the project that I should get a picture of it. Tonight I finally took the time to do so. ->

Right Angles

 

My new tile.  With grout and everything.  ->

Cabinet

 

The Geek doesn't know this yet, but there's some electrical work in the "new" old bathroom that he's going to have to attend to.  I simply cannot keep the old medicine cabinet you see.  It's old. And tiny.  And there's an electrical outlet installed right next to, which means it's simply in my way and therefore  must be relocated. 

In the meantime, I'm blithely shopping for replacement cabinets.  Lowes has some perfectly serviceable ones of course.  But I've recently (read: 48 hours ago) discovered Restoration Hardware and their products simply make me drool.  Of course, so do their price tags, so I may have to find something at Lowes after all.  

Or maybe I should forgo the cabinet and just go for a big mirror.  Small room + big mirror = optical-illusion-big-room, right?  

But then there's the storage issue.  

But I am getting a new sink cabinet built with drawers and whatnot, so maybe storage won't be as much of an issue now.  

But the kids are going to be using it, and one kid is a girl and girls generate a lot of bathroom stuff so the more storage the better, right?   

But The Boy is off to college before she'll hit the age where she really generates said stuff, so maybe the mirror after all.  

But what happens if he moves back in four years after graduation?  Then I need the storage again! 

What if he flunks out and is back home in a year???  

I need wine. 

And a medicine cabinet.

Or mirror?   ->  

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Tile

The Bathroom Project, which started earlier this year, is now in full swing.  We dropped $500 on tile yesterday and we still have a long way to go.  So for the foreseeable future (read: until this baby is DONE) I will likely have construction related pictures posted.  Which is merely consumption on a larger scale.  I may or may not post finished pics of the room.  I will absolutely pat myself on the back for any and all attempts I make at reducing, reusing and recycling.  Naturally I will brag about  said attempts here. 

So far I have none.  

But I plan on it!  

Really!  

On a completely unrelated noted, I've had two people ask me in the past few days if I take several pictures at once and "can" them for later use.  

The answer is that with the exception of one picture, no.  For this project, I've taken a picture every single day (a "day" for me is 12:00 am to 11:59 pm) for the past nine months, although obviously I get them posted later.  The date posted in conjunction with the picture on the blog is the date I actually took the photo.  


Getting close now...I only have until August 19th (I think).  I can't believe I'm on the downward slope of this.  A year goes by fast.  ->

$39.98

We have consumption on a medium scale going on over here.  My house was built in 1950.  Which means my hall bathroom was also built in 1950. And unlike my kitchen, it's never been updated.  

So while a tile combination of peach and rusty-brown might have been considered all the rage sixty years ago, it hasn't really stood the test of time.  

Thus, we're ripping it out, along with the (original) bathtub, the sink and vanity, the toilet, the original gas heat wall heater, and, come to find out some original moldy studs as well.

Have you any idea how many shower heads there are from which to choose?  And they all just seem to stare at you and mock you while you're considering their merits. ->