A sigh of relief

Well, I am very happy that I have the bathroom livable. I am now motivated to complete the rest of the upstairs to make it, well to make it up to my standards. The entire upstairs hallway is next on the list. The carpet was removed from the floor and what's left is hideous floors in desperate need of some sanding. We also have this awesome wallpaper (I'm assuming it's from the 30s or 40s). I've got most of the wallpaper scraped from the hallway. I just have about 4 small sections left. Here is what I'm working with:

The completed scraped walls


Now this is pretty interesting. See this lovely door in the back ground?


This door leads to a closet that someone created. Guess what's inside this closet?


A window. Actually it's the only window in the hallway. That means no natural light in there unless this closet door is open. So after I'm finished scraping all of the other wallpaper, this wall/ door will be coming out. I'll put some nice blinds/ drapes and a chair in the corner for right now. I'll hopefully get to this by this weekend.

A small dillema

Here are the photos of our new bathroom! I just bought that shower curtain and I'm sort of not feeling the flow. Should I return it and just go for a plain white shower curtain? I need some opinions here!

Here is a photo of the lovely purple that used to dominate our bathroom. I guess I've got some touch up to do.

Another angle


New lighting! I'm thinking that mirror needs to be flip right side up.

So what do you think?

Here are the photos of our landscaping! For the larger photos, just click to view the entire picture. Doesn't the bedlining and mulch make it look so much better? We still have quite a few
more plants to add (that's why the mulch doesn't come all the way up)



If you scroll down you can see just how much it's grown since May.

If you scroll all the way back to January you can see the weed bushes that took over our landscaping. My we've come so far in such little time!

A temporary solution

The bathroom is complete, for now. I figure if we really do the bathroom the way we would like to it will probably cost around 10-15K. I can't wait to show you photos though. We put up a new light fixture, new pictures, paint, rugs. It's hardly recognizable to us. It feels really clean, which is exactly what we were going for. I'm not 100% in love with the color but hey, it could be worse. It could be purple.

We also added about 12 new plants to our landscaping this weekend. We put in some Salvia, blanket flower, Fiesta Forsythia, and Red magic Flox. We also put down some more mulch. It's looking so good!

I had a very productive weekend- Finally.

I hope everyone is having a great summer so far!

Progress...

It's been about a month- but I finally have some news about progress. I finally began priming and painting the bathroom. This is currently the only bathroom we have in the house. It's pretty spacious but everything is crammed into one area- the toilet sink and tub. I primed all of the woodwork in the bathroom. Typically I wouldn't paint woodwork, but it's got a late 70s feel to it. It's nice wood but will look even nicer with a medium bright white gloss.

I didn't get photos in time but I'm sure most of you who've been to our home remember the lovely purple bathroom. I'm happy to say that the color has been primed. This weekend we're painting the bathroom a fresh spring green. We are also putting in a new mirror and some polished nickel lighting. It seems polished nickel is becoming more popular. People must be getting tired of seeing brushed nickel everywhere. Whatever happend to brass? Oh yeah- that's right, brass sucks.

We are also doing more yard work this weekend and I can't wait. Here are some photos of the bathroom under construction.


sky light


This is about half of the open space we have under the other arch... Oooh the possibilities

Sorry

I haven't written anything in soooo long. Summer caught up with me and now I am incredibly busy. If I'm not up at the cabin I'm moving the sprinkler around the yard and taking the dogs for a walk and blah blah blah. I miss having 3 full months to do whatever the hell I wanted to do. Maybe I should start teaching ;) Yeah right.