More pictures of the finished bathroom

A few more detail shots. There are a few things yet to do, like put up the toilet paper holder (need to buy epoxy) and install stone light switch covers (back ordered for 4 months!), but since we hung the blind in the bathroom (neighbors are rejoicing I imagine) we're pretty much DONE after 8 months.

View from the bedroom. Still need to cut back the carpet and tack that down.  Probably won't happen until one of us trips and breaks our nose or something.

Real plants :-)

 Sink detail. (Looked better, less cluttered, before we started using the bathroom, but oh well!)

Bottom up, top down blinds

Best low flow toilet ever

A friend cut down the right side of this vent so it would fit in the space.

Heated floors!!!  The actual temp NEVER matches the target temp - sometimes it's higher, sometimes lower. No idea, but the floors are warm!














By the way, I know why real bloggers hate blogger. This interface is impossible!

Shower doors and walls are up

With a minor glitch wherein the back glass had to be reordered which added another 5 days to the 2 months we had already waited.  Or was it 3 months?  All I know is that next Monday the glass people are going to put on the anti-streak, anti-water spot treatment, and then our bathroom will be DONE!

DONE!


What you can see from these pictures is that there is still a ladder in the bathroom, waiting for me to touch up the trim pain on the windows and doors. Oh, and I need to put some kind of window covering on the window over the toilet to protect the neighbors. Will I ever have the energy?

Oh, and we also need to fix the ceiling in the closet where Sam stepped through it.  Again.

And now, the consumerist season begins

Step 1: SO MANY GIFT GUIDES! Since I'm not shopping right now, I'll just pass it all on to you...

Most ridiculous so far

Many from Design*Sponge

• Techie stuff
• Photographers
• Pets
• I'm sure they will have more between now and December 25; they usually do.

More to come...

Not eggs too!!!

I think I'm also allergic to eggs.  Twice this week I've been very, um, uncomfortable after Sam made scrambled eggs for breakfast for me.  This is very distressing.

A Stormtrooper's Family Album

Photographer Kristina Alexanderson likes to imagine that the foot soldiers have a happy and normal home life. How sweet! (via dailymail.co.uk)
       http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/a-stormtroopers-family-album-281t

Want clear skin

WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT!

This house makes me want to move to Alabama

Birmingham house for sale

Tile is done!!!

Overheard in Athens - Email From me

quick, before everything stacks up to the top!

Our tile guy is serious

Latest bathroom status

The heated floor wires are down and mudded in

Shower plumbing and basic shape is all in

 Heating wire in front of toilet, because you don't want cold toes when you get up to potty in the middle of the night!

I am in love with cheetahs

http://dcist.com/2011/06/happy_friday_washington_1.php

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Had migraines the last three days straight.  Slept until 12:30 yesterday.  Migraine left sometime late afternoon FINALLY, but then I couldn't sleep until sometime after 3am.  I had plans today!  I had things I wanted to do!  I hate my body.  It probably hates me, but I don't know what I'm doing to cause the issues.  I'm doing the best I can, Body!  Work with me!

The best shoes ever in the world

Dior Cannage Stitch Peep Toe Pump

Bathroom destruction

Let me just say now that I am firmly opposed to bathroom overfitters.  The people who installed our shower did not seal it right at all and there were TONS of molds growing between the plastic overfitted floor and the tile floor.  I wish I had gotten a picture, but I didn't.

So this is the shower floor - plastic on top of lovely white subway tile on top of concrete.

This is the awful white plastic overlayed shower parts.  TONS of horrible adhesive strips, but none around the drain.  Morons.



After breaking out the concrete...

Where the toilet was...

Former sink & mirror area 1. Lovely peach wall color, eh?

Former sink & wall area 2

Dangerous hot wires! 

Bathroom windows went in...

... at the cost of Rick's pinky nail.

Norwex

If you haven't heard of Norwex and you have any allergies or respiratory issues of any kind, you should check out this company and their cleaning products.  The basis of their offering is microfiber cleaning cloths embedded with silver.  Microfiber picks up things as small as bacteria, and holds them until the cloth is rinsed with hot water.  Silver is a natural antibacterial and antimicrobial that kills those evil things when they are picked up by the cloth, therefore preventing them from being redeposited. 

The cloths were developed in response to the increase in medical resistant bacteria and viruses for use in hospitals.  Check out more at Norwex.com.

First step - new windows installed

At the cost of Rick's fingernail via the circular saw.  Sam did not faint! 

Bathroom before pictures

Bath fixtures

This is what I'm going with. 

Both from FixtureUniverse.com, Torino collection.  Will probably go with the matching towel bars and robe hooks too, but that can wait until everything else is done.