catnapper
09-05-2007, 08:38 AM
I've been BUSY renovating my bathroom and doing some repair work in my bedroom.
There were many times I felt like I made a mistake and sold my soul to the devil.... you see the bathroom was being redone courtesy of the insurance company. I should have had a $500 deductible but after the insurance company and contractors negotiated and agreed on the $$$, the contractors and I did our own negotiations where I agreed to do a boat load of work in exchange for not having a $500 deductible AND the contractors "gave" me a new carpet for my bedroom.
I worked and sweated and I think I hurt every single muscle in my body doing the work. All the while I questioned my sanity and whether a $500 deductible and a new bedroom carpet was worth it.
I sanded the walls all by hand. I patched and spackled, and patched some more. I was starting to think the world was a haze of white dust. :p But in the end, it WAS worth it. I have an awesome new bathroom!
BEFORE:
Notice the Formica walls below the chair rail? They're gone. And what a chore that w as to remove all the glue that held the Formica in place.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/bathroom2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/bathroom1.jpg
To show you WHY we redid the bathroom:
Can you see the mold on the side of the tub? That went all under all the floorboards. The whole floor was soft. The bottom of the tub felt like it was going to fall through the floor.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/BeginConstruction.jpg
NOW:
My new crisp, cool, fresh bathroom.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/BathroomReDo-2.jpg'
New vanity since the old one was so badly molded out on the bottom. I refinished the medicine cabinet and the storage cabinet to match the new antique white vanity (the storage cabinet came last year to hold Cameron's bath supplies)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/BathroomReDo-1.jpg
The shower doors hubby and I fought over -- they were given to us over a year ago and I thought they were the tackiest, ugliest things I ever saw. Until they were installed, that is :o
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/BathroomReDo-3.jpg
More girl power in the next post :)
There were many times I felt like I made a mistake and sold my soul to the devil.... you see the bathroom was being redone courtesy of the insurance company. I should have had a $500 deductible but after the insurance company and contractors negotiated and agreed on the $$$, the contractors and I did our own negotiations where I agreed to do a boat load of work in exchange for not having a $500 deductible AND the contractors "gave" me a new carpet for my bedroom.
I worked and sweated and I think I hurt every single muscle in my body doing the work. All the while I questioned my sanity and whether a $500 deductible and a new bedroom carpet was worth it.
I sanded the walls all by hand. I patched and spackled, and patched some more. I was starting to think the world was a haze of white dust. :p But in the end, it WAS worth it. I have an awesome new bathroom!
BEFORE:
Notice the Formica walls below the chair rail? They're gone. And what a chore that w as to remove all the glue that held the Formica in place.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/bathroom2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/bathroom1.jpg
To show you WHY we redid the bathroom:
Can you see the mold on the side of the tub? That went all under all the floorboards. The whole floor was soft. The bottom of the tub felt like it was going to fall through the floor.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/BeginConstruction.jpg
NOW:
My new crisp, cool, fresh bathroom.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/BathroomReDo-2.jpg'
New vanity since the old one was so badly molded out on the bottom. I refinished the medicine cabinet and the storage cabinet to match the new antique white vanity (the storage cabinet came last year to hold Cameron's bath supplies)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/BathroomReDo-1.jpg
The shower doors hubby and I fought over -- they were given to us over a year ago and I thought they were the tackiest, ugliest things I ever saw. Until they were installed, that is :o
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/kimmel101/house/BathroomReDo-3.jpg
More girl power in the next post :)