Carpet, bad mirrors, oak cabinets, window that doesn't open...
Tiny shower...no room for two people ;-)
Dog days of summer
New counter tops, no more carpet...
Beautiful lights, new mirrors, painted cabinets-love it!
A grown-up sized shower
So, it is finally complete. Well except for a small valve, cover plate for the bath tub. Oh, what a nice shower and bath and closet!! Seems rather silly to be so excited over something like this, but it is great to actually be able to take a shower and not worry about the door flying opened if you dropped the soap!!!
Rumor has it that when a big event like a wedding, or another wedding or a baby coming, duane and I do major projects. what was it Lorie?, new downstairs and master bath flooring several months before you got married? No we wouldn't do that! And of course then we promptly moved! Only to have children (S&L) live with us while we plan another wedding! And of course, this year, a baby and another remodel! I just don't plan on moving this time!
The goal was to enlarge the shower, one which very much needed to be enlarged. The orignal plan was an 'optional shower' where the linen closet was! Yeah, well we had a linen closet sized shower!
We expanded into our master closet and a small amount into the actual bathroom itself. I myself, I don't know about anyone else out there, but I'm sick of cleaning grout! We opted for a corian shower stall, all one piece, two tones actually, the ceiling and floor a dark gray and the walls a sandstone color. Glass half walls and shower door! Which means off goes the counter tops, and tub surround, up goes the carpet on the floor to be replaced by tile (small grout and a color that doesn't show the dirt!) painted cabinets, replace the 6 foot long vanity mirrors with a large mirrored medicine cabinet, hardware, paint and whew I think that about does it! with new paint in the bedroom and new carpet (old time shag looking carpet!) It's almost all back together. Now for a few pics. And as usual, they don't really show how it really looks, oh, yeah, we put a new window (openable) over the tub, raised the ceiling to accomodate a small ceiling fan, for those hot, summer mornings! I hope the pics give you the general picture.
