Bathroom - Insulation

The insulators spray-foamed the bathroom this morning. It's been about five weeks since I demo'd the room and removed all the insulation, it was nice today to come home and not feel drafts.

Here's a couple of the before:

Insulated walls and ceiling:

Here's some before pictures of the cellar ceiling before insulation:

Insulation ceiling:

Bathroom - Plumbing and Electrical

Electrician finished the rough-in for outlets, sconces, exhaust fan, and overhead light. The plumber has the drain and vent all finished and the water lines are roughed-in. Still waiting for a pressure balancer for the shower, once that is in the plumber will connect the water lines.

Framing for the medicine cabinet and sconces roughed-in next to it.

Vent stack, overhead light, and exhaust fan.

Future throne

This is the spaghetti mess that has become our cellar.

Next step is to have the framing inspected and then hopefully Friday the room will be insulated. Then a insulation inspection and we can start sheetrock.

Bathroom - Demo and Framing

Finally got to work on the bathroom.

Here's the before pictures.

Everything gutted

I found an old wasp nest up here. Repairs were made to the outside, but the inside framing was left as is. The wasps chewed up the top plate.

New header put in over window.

Header for pocket door

New wall for shower stall.

Hopefully next week the plumbing will start his rough-in

Christmas Lights

French Doors

Finally got the french doors in the living room stripped, stained/painted, and hung. These were removed sometime in the 1950s by the previous owner and have been sitting in the garage attic since.

I pulled them out this summer and slowly worked on removing the old pink paint and getting them ready for stain and paint.

Karina's dad came and helped cut the mortise for the hinges. Luckily they just patched the old mortise when the doors were removed so he only need to remove the patch and the old hinge fit back into place.

Sunroom side.

Landscaping!

We finally tackled some landscaping around the house. A couple weeks back my parents removed all the weeds around the house and dug out potted the good stuff. We put some edging blocks and then hauled in some black dirt to create some better slope around the foundation.

We were able to get all the dirt hauled in, plants back in the ground, and mulch covering everything in one day. Its a huge improvement and now at least part of our yard isn't an eye sore :)

Bathroom Remodel - draft plans

Been a while since I've posted an update.

We got some initial sketches back for the bathroom addition in the breakfast nook off the kitchen.

Our desire has been to redo the upstairs bathroom, but since this is the only functional bathroom we either have to redo the basement bathroom or add another. The long term plan was to add a bathroom when we redid the kitchen but we decided to add the bathroom now instead of redoing the basement bathroom.

We still have some tweaking on the layout but this should be fairly close to what we are planning. For those of you who've used our current upstairs bathroom, know that anything would be a vast improvement.





This would be looking in from the kitchen