Yeah! The bathroom remodel project is done!  Well, 99% anyway.  Many thanks to Kevin for all of his help, and to Kathryn for all of her help!  It’s come a long ways!

These pictures are from back in April.  The time has just gotten away from us this summer!  We put on a new countertop surface and cut in the sink hole.

Then we put on the backsplash and the mirror.  Kevin came and helped us put in the sink.  It was a little tricky because it is a heavy cast iron sink held in with a houdini ring.  Kevin basically laid under the counter and held up the sink while we quickly installed the hangers and tightened them down.

Here is a shot of Kathryn hard at work.  She was a tremendous help on this bathroom project and I want to make sure she gets plenty of credit.  Not shown is that she grouted and sealed the tile all by herself.  It was like magic when I came home from work and it was done!

The word of the day is tile!  Special thanks to Kevin for coming over again and helping out, and for Suzanne for coming over in the evening to help with Ashley.  Also, a huge thanks to Kathryn for all she did.  She was instrumental in making the day a success.

We took off early on Friday and drove to Bedrosians in Salt Lake.  They are an amazing place to find any kind of tile imaginable.  We decided to get the same type of slate that we put on our fireplace upstairs.  It’s called Butterscotch Slate.  We loaded it all up in the back of Darbus (our CRV).  Upon pulling out, these lyrics came to mind:

♫Low-ri-der
Low rider drives a little slower
Low rider is a real goer♫

We made it home and unloaded the tile.  Here is our hoard.  Similar to what Forrest said, life is like a box of slate, you never know what you’re going to get.

We are training Ashley to love Home Depot.

Funny story about Lowes.  We were in the store a while ago and saw a faucet we liked.  We didn’t buy it at the time though.  A couple of days later, we decided we wanted to go ahead and get it and in order to save the trip to Orem, we decided to buy it online.  Several days later it came in the mail.  We put the unopened box in our bathroom pile upstairs.  A couple of weeks went by the other night I was finally ready to open it up and take a look at it.  I opened the box and what did I find inside?  A pack of paper plates!  Granted, these were premium outdoor picnic paper plates.   Kathryn thought I had pulled a fast one and was joking.  Nope.  We looked at the invoice and sure enough, it had the faucet we ordered on it.  Well, looks like we’ll be making the drive to Lowes afterall.  I doubt it’d go very well to return the plates in the mail asking for our faucet instead.

Back to the tile, here is our mud mixing operation.  We’ve discovered it’s easier to mix the mud by weight of powder and volume of water, than trying to guess on the ratios.  Hence the bathroom scale.

Closet is done and we’re ready with another batch of mud.

Making progress.

On the home stretch!
 

All the floor tile is down!  Yeah!

Cleaning up.  Doing tile makes quite a mess.  We’re glad to have a back patio that works well for the job.

There you have it.  Another Saturday dedicated to this bathroom project.  Again, a huge thanks to Kathryn for her help.  She’s the amazing behind the scenes helper making everything come together.

We’re getting really excited to wrap it up and do other things on beautiful Saturdays.  More to come as it comes.

We finished the new window on the outside.  Previously we had just done the treacherous yellow insulation foam.  Now it is all caulked in.  Replacing the window was a fun, new project for us.  We will probably have someone do the kitchen windows for us though given the tricky corner.

Kevin came over again in the afternoon to help us paint (and do laundry).  We always enjoy having him over to help, visit with, and feed.

The bathroom is all painted.  Also, after much deliberation, we picked a countertop and got it ordered.  Horray!  Next up, tile and countertop.  More to come as it comes.