What finally happened with the bathroom
Well, it's been awhile so I'll just give the hyper-condensed version of how the bathroom was finished off. There are a lot of other things going on with life, especially in my varied hobbies, and I'd like to cover those here as well. It did, though, remind me of how out-of-date this journal is.
Most of the bathroom was finished up this last spring. In no particular order...
1) Floor got press-on vinyl tiles until I think of something better. Pulled off the nasty vinyl shoe molding (that was attached with some ridiculous adhesive that ended up needing to be *melted* off with the heat gun), and replaced it with new white fake-wood molding. Much brighter than before and if the tiles get scuffed or something, they can just be peeled out and replaced.
2) The walls are pretty much the same, I'm afraid. However, there are a series of pictures hanging (Chinese symbol for strength cut out of silver paper, a Japanese watercolor of bamboo, and a motivational picture of bamboo) in black, red, grey/silver, and hints of green to soften the room, and 3 Command hooks (brushed silver) are on the wall by the tub to handle bath towels.
3) The ceiling is refinished and repainted - the old ceiling light fixture now resides in the basement, and there's a working vent fan with light over the tub area to take care of the steamies.
4) Cabinets have been primed and painted where necessary.
5) The new oak laminate door is hung, and just needs one more coat of Minwax polycrylic (gold oak) to call it done.
6) The tacky old door molding (they used some godawful cheap 60's vintage floor molding as door trim) is also gone. We recycled door frames from the landing area of the house and cut them down to size to fit the door frame. They, too, have been refinished & repainted.
7) Little matching rugs have made their way in, as have wire basket organizers in the cabinets.
unfortunately, there was also
8) The shower fixtures have been replaced after the old plumbing joints started leaking. All the old plumbing was pulled out of the access from the bedroom closet & replaced with pex and new fixtures. Took longer than expected, but that was to be expected...
and now
9) Since I had to buy new shower fixtures, why not buy the matching sink set? Now the countdown begins to tear open the wall in the other downstairs bedroom to get to the plumbing of the bathroom sink (there's almost no hot water coming through, due to accreted material getting stuck in the pipes when the basement plumbing was replaced, so it needs to be replaced) and then replacing the current wall-hung ugliness with a new, less-intrusive pedestal sink.
Most of the bathroom was finished up this last spring. In no particular order...
1) Floor got press-on vinyl tiles until I think of something better. Pulled off the nasty vinyl shoe molding (that was attached with some ridiculous adhesive that ended up needing to be *melted* off with the heat gun), and replaced it with new white fake-wood molding. Much brighter than before and if the tiles get scuffed or something, they can just be peeled out and replaced.
2) The walls are pretty much the same, I'm afraid. However, there are a series of pictures hanging (Chinese symbol for strength cut out of silver paper, a Japanese watercolor of bamboo, and a motivational picture of bamboo) in black, red, grey/silver, and hints of green to soften the room, and 3 Command hooks (brushed silver) are on the wall by the tub to handle bath towels.
3) The ceiling is refinished and repainted - the old ceiling light fixture now resides in the basement, and there's a working vent fan with light over the tub area to take care of the steamies.
4) Cabinets have been primed and painted where necessary.
5) The new oak laminate door is hung, and just needs one more coat of Minwax polycrylic (gold oak) to call it done.
6) The tacky old door molding (they used some godawful cheap 60's vintage floor molding as door trim) is also gone. We recycled door frames from the landing area of the house and cut them down to size to fit the door frame. They, too, have been refinished & repainted.
7) Little matching rugs have made their way in, as have wire basket organizers in the cabinets.
unfortunately, there was also
8) The shower fixtures have been replaced after the old plumbing joints started leaking. All the old plumbing was pulled out of the access from the bedroom closet & replaced with pex and new fixtures. Took longer than expected, but that was to be expected...
and now
9) Since I had to buy new shower fixtures, why not buy the matching sink set? Now the countdown begins to tear open the wall in the other downstairs bedroom to get to the plumbing of the bathroom sink (there's almost no hot water coming through, due to accreted material getting stuck in the pipes when the basement plumbing was replaced, so it needs to be replaced) and then replacing the current wall-hung ugliness with a new, less-intrusive pedestal sink.