Tag: bathroom

Painted Flowers

The bathrooms are nearly done.  All that remains to do is hang the mirrors, towel racks, toilet paper holder, and place the drawer pulls.  The baseboards can wait!  At noon, we will officially be able to use the sinks, the faucets, and the second toilet.  Who thought that could be so exciting?

And in between the chaos of repairs and work, I have tried to do some painting.  I pulled out my watercolor pencils and started a picture that will be mixed media in the end.  It’s complicated.  I have been scanning every step.

To kick back, I have been looking at the flower pictures I took last weekend at the botanical garden – so many!  I have painted a few of them, with ink and pen, with watercolor pencil and pen, with watercolor.  I really like flowers and wish I had a better yard for a garden . . . that will come, though; meanwhile, I wander in one I don’t have to maintain.

Now We Need A Door!

How incredibly silly, perhaps, to write about a shower stall.  But here it is, in all its just-finished glory!  Our tile setter did a great job, so impressive in fact that when the shower door came out, he asked for the tile setter’s name.  We plan on using him in the guest bathroom, which has a bathtub, when we re-tile it in the hopefully not too distant future!

The tile setter has a hard job to do, I think.  I sure couldn’t do it – not as patiently or as well as he did.  Paying him was worth every penny.  I am looking forward to the house repairs being done – let’s just hope there isn’t an earthquake any time soon, as we won’t recover that loss as easily as we did from the flood.

The agenda for the repairs moves forward.  Flooring tomorrow.  Painter starts Thursday.  Pick up vanities Saturday, and buy some new toilets, too!  (I am excited about new toilets!  Ours are not the most “effective” you might say.)  Vanities go in after the painter is done.  Tops are cut and placed.  Shower door placed last.

Maybe it will all be done by our wedding anniversary mid-May – that would be cool!